Work on Norwich’s backpackers’ hostel in King Street set to start this year
Building work should start on schedule before the end of the year on Norwich’s first backpackers’ hostel, bosses said today. Plans to turn the former Ferry Boat pub into a backpackers’ hostel were given the go-ahead by city councillors earlier in the year. The former King Street pub, which is a grade II listed building, [...]
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Green light for former Norwich pub to become backpackers’ hostel
Plans to turn a former Norwich pub into a backpackers’ hostel have been given the go-ahead by city councillors. The Ferry Boat Inn, in King Street, will be turned into a 200-bed hostel after members of Norwich City Council’s planning applications committee granted it permission. The plans for the grade II-listed building were put forward [...]
Derelict pub site in Norwich to become hostel
Plans for a 200-bed backpackers hostel on the site of a derelict pub have been approved by Norwich City Council. The Ferry Boat Inn, next to the River Wensum on King Street, was a live music venue but has not been occupied for four years. The Borthwick family will build a hostel there and plan [...]
King Street Norwich: Plans for the Ferry Boat site
A PICTURE tells a thousand words for the Ferry Boat site in Norwich Under these plans just released by Norwich Backpackers the original pub (on the left) is dwarfed by the new building destined for the old car park. Just for reference we’re looking at things from King Street and it’s the Novi Sad pedestrian [...]
Norwich’s first backpackers’ hostel could open by Christmas
The people behind Norwich’s first backpackers’ hostel said that it could be open by the end of the year – after plans to alter and extend the former Ferry Boat pub in King Street, were lodged with council officials. The pub, near the Riverside complex, has been sitting empty for more than four years, but [...]
New Norwich backpacker hostel designs revealed
This is the first look at what Norwich’s first backpackers’ hostel could look like. Alister Borthwick and his son Jason, who created the Deepdale Farm campsite on the north Norfolk coast, have now submitted an application to Norwich City Council to alter and extend the former Ferry Boat pub in King Street, near the Riverside [...]
Hostel could spark backpacker boom
The entrepreneur behind plans for a major hostel in Norwich has said the proposals could spark a boom in backpackers visiting the region. Jason Borthwick, who has also set up an award winning backpackers’ hostel and campsite at Deepdale Farm on the north Norfolk coast, has revealed the first artist’s impressions of the planned 150-bed [...]
Norwich Hostel to be Eco Showpiece
The people behind the independent hostel being developed in Norwich have sought help from local firms in making it environmentally friendly, according to the Norwich Evening News. If successful, they’ll create a building so energy efficient that they’ll actually sell electricity back to the grid. Speaking to the paper, developer Jason Borthwick said: Although it [...]
Sustainable construction to make hostel ”one of UK”s greenest buildings”
Renewable energy and eco construction products such as photovoltaic (PV) solar panels and sustainable panelling will help make a new hostel in Norwich one of the greenest buildings in the country, the Norwich Evening News has reported. Jason Borthwick and his father Alister plan to convert the former Ferry Boat pub on King Street, which [...]
Hostel developers ask for green advice
Developers behind a Norwich backpackers’ hostel are asking for help from local firms to make it one of the greenest buildings in the county. The hostel will be built in the former Ferry Boat pub on King Street, near the Riverside complex, which has been sitting empty for four years. Alister Borthwick and his son [...]
MP welcomes Norwich backpackers hostel
A riverside backpackers’ hostel planned for Norwich would be a “major asset” to the city, said Norwich south MP Charles Clarke. The former Ferry Boat pub on King Street, Norwich, closed in 2006 but is in line for a multi-million pound refurbishment as accommodation for backpackers. The scheme is the brainchild of Alister Borthwick and [...]
A New Hostel for Norwich?
It’s now over seven years since the doors closed at Norwich YH. Since then, though the YHA have never ruled out a return to the historic East Anglian city, there’s been nowhere for hostellers to stay if they wish to visit. That all looks set to change if plans to adapt a derelict pub into [...]
New backpackers’ hostel for Norwich – in old pub
Norwich’s first backpackers’ hostel could help the city better compete with York and other historic UK cities by tapping into a new market, tourism bosses said today. The new hostel plans to open in 2011 and is being developed on the site of the former Ferry Boat pub in King Street, which has fallen into [...]
Plan to turn derelict pub in Norwich into eco-hostel
A derelict pub in Norwich has been bought by a Norfolk family who plan to turn it into an “eco-friendly” hostel. The Ferry Boat Inn, next to the River Wensum on King Street, was a live music venue but has not been occupied for three years. The Borthwick family has bought the property to model [...]
Norwich Backpackers Hostel
A new eco-friendly tourism market for Norwich – New life for landmark city centre site Norwich is soon to have its first backpackers hostel, a whole new tourism market for the city and the next venture for father and son, Alister and Jason Borthwick. The team behind the award winning, eco-friendly tourism facilities at Deepdale [...]