Plans for an extension to the Premier Inn hotel at Lomondgate, Dumbarton, have been withdrawn.

The hotel’s parent company, the Whitbread Group, applied for planning permission earlier this year for to build a 21-bedroom three storey extension to the hotel at the services next to the A82. They planned to increase the total bedrooms available to 78 but to cut the existing number of parking spaces by 19.

David Hastings, chair of Strathleven Regeneration CIC which was set up to help deliver the Lomondgate development in partnership with Walker Group (Scotland) Ltd, raised concerns over using part of the car park to build the extension.

In an email to the West Dunbartonshire Council’s planning department he wrote the group was ‘delighted’ at the general idea of a hotel expansion but thought the proposed design of the extension risked making the hotel ‘less attractive’.

He said the Lomondgate partnership was seeking talks with the hotel’s parent company about working out a solution to enable the extension involving land out with the site.