A national restaurant chain and new coffee store are set to open in the building
Hammonds of Hull from Paragon Square, Hull(Image: Copyright Unknown)
Plans to alter the Hammonds of Hull building in preparation of the site’s 2026 ground floor revival have been submitted to Hull City Council. Late last year it was announced that the ground floor is to reopen as four individual units.
In order for each of the four units to be accessible from outside, a planning application has been submitted to Hull City Council detailing plans to create two new entrance points to the building. The entrances would be on Jameson Street and South Street respectively.
Agents Garness Jones have previously expressed confidence that a well-known national restaurant chain, and a coffee shop would each move into a unit after having made offers to take parts of the ground floor. The names of the two companies that seem set to move into the city remain unknown.
Paul White, director of Garness Jones, at the time said the two operators are “high quality, and will be new to the city.” The restaurant chain “has an established reputation for offering an excellent variety of dishes, for the freshness of their food and for excellent customer service.
“The coffeehouse will be a new brand to the UK which is choosing Hull as its first location but has ambitious plans to quickly open in other major cities, and overseas, offering a Scandinavian-inspired environment and specialty coffees and signature blends.”
Submitted plans say the scheme seeks to bring the ground floor of the city centre building back to life. It is said that by doing so the scheme will also help to “enliven the streets around the building by creating activity behind the shop fronts.”
Plans also say: “The new entrances have been designed to be very simple and unobtrusive. They are fully glazed with narrow metal frames. The colour of the frames will be dark brown, to match the existing frames, so they blend in with the existing shopfronts.”
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