Inn Collection confirms £6m Sunderland pub with rooms

The Inn Collection Group has confirmed a 40-bedroom pub on Sunderland seafront.

The Seaburn Inn investment will be worth £6m, and be set across three floors, with a bar and restaurant to provide for diners all year round.

The announcement follows a new strategic direction from Inn Collection, to develop a wholly freehold estate, as it continues to roll out ‘buy and build’ growth plans which will see the group more than double its ten-strong portfolio of pubs with rooms by 2022.

The Alchemy-backed group, which was named Best Pub Employer of up to 500 employees in the national 2019 Publican Awards, will continue to seek out new development opportunities in the Lake District and Yorkshire as well as within its North East England heartland.

Its most recent new-build developments include The Commissioners Quay Inn, in Blyth and The Amble Inn in Amble, a £4m development which opened in January. The group is opening a new 30-bedroom pub with rooms, The Ambleside Inn in Ambleside, Cumbria, later this month.

Work is expected to begin on the Seaburn venue, which will include a play park for customers and a new eatery, before the end of the year.

Sean Donkin, managing director of The Inn Collection Group, said: “Seaburn will become a popular addition to our portfolio of pubs with rooms in the north’s best loved destinations including the Northumberland coast, Durham and the Lake District. We look forward to seeing it rise from the ground, with a view to opening our doors towards the end of 2020.”