From the Kent Messinger 31 October 1969.

Now Eurotel plan is on.

'Green' for £1½ scheme.

REVISED plans for Dover's £1,500,000 Eurotel and office complex designed to, overlook the Channel on the existing Townwall-street car park site were approved by the council on Tuesday.

Original plans were approved by the council in June but were later turned down by the county council because it considered part of the design was old-fashioned.

The revised plans now go back to the county council for approval, This time Dover's deputy town clerk, Miss L. Cumberland, said: "We do not anticipate any difficulties."

The plans include some streamlining in design, alterations to the multi-storey car park and to bedrooms. Work on the building was due to start on October 1. Completion date was by October, 1971.

And a start will probably not now take place until early next year.

The Eurotel when built, will be the first in Britain and will occupy the town's last undeveloped bomb site.

DOVERS £1½ million town centre development held up for four months because the planners have been at loggerheads, has now got the green light.

The County Council, which rejected the first plan for the project which includes a 23 story International Hotel, conference hall, exhibition hall, offices, showrooms, and multi-story car park, are now willing to approve a substitute plan.

This was revealed at Tuesday's meeting of the Town Council, when borough engineer Mr. David Bevan, said: "The modification which is basically the same, is acceptable to the County."

Mr. Bevan said that the new plan was dramatic in appearance and gave the hotel an additional 25 bedrooms.

Work on the project, which when completed, will give employment t 600 people, is expected to start  before the end of the year.

Th hotel will be Britain's first Eurotel, a project organised by an international company with headquarters in Zurich. It will have a penthouse restaurant, roof gardens and luxury apartments.