Major expansion plans from a top Irvine hotel have been given the green light by licensing chiefs.
The Riverside Hotel were at the September Licensing Board meeting with an application for a variation of premises licence.
They wanted an additional bar adjacent to the function suite to be used for weddings and events and an additional outdoor drinking area on the patio/terrace area to the front of the function suite.
This will be used for weddings/events to permit guests to take drinks into this area but will have no bar facility.
Only 11 objections were received and the Board agreed to carry out a site visit on October 20.
Because of changes to layout the board asked for a site visit to the hotel.
Licensing Board chair, Eleanor Collier, said: “In October we met the owner and general manager for a tour of the premises and that was really helpful.
A motion by Cllr Donald L Reid to grant the variation was unanimously agreed by the Board.
Cllr Collier added: “You have made a great job of the hotel, it was looking really nice when we were there, what a difference.”
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