Travelodge launches its “most sustainable” hotel in historic London Docklands

Hospitality design specialist Dexter Moren Associates (DMA), is celebrating the completion of a new-build 18-storey, 350-room Travelodge hotel in the East India Dock area of London Docklands.

The hotel development by Tarragon Development Limited is a joint venture between Marick Real Estate and Mill Lane Estates and has been designed by DMA to reflect the industrial history of the site and its surrounding architecture.

The new design has been created on the success of the group’s “budget chic” hotel format, ‘TravelodgePLUS’ with feedback from the company’s largest consumer study which surveyed around 5,000 UK business and leisure travellers to find the psychographics of the modern budget traveller.

The London Docklands Travelodge hotel features an on-site restaurant, a car park and a range of family, double and accessible budget-luxe and SuperRooms. Rooms offer “scenic views” of the O2, The Thames and Canary Wharf.

This is also the most sustainable Travelodge hotel with a BREEAM Excellent rating, an Energy Performance Certificate rating of A and a number of sustainable features which includes solar panels on the roof, air source heat pumps and electric vehicle charging points.

Tarragon Development’s executive chairman, Andrew White, commented: “DMA has been singularly responsible in ensuring that the hotel was delivered to the exacting standards and quality, which is there for all to witness today.

“But for DMA and the team working seamlessly together with the main contractor John Sisk & Sons and the supply chain, this hotel would not have been completed five months early. The DMA team undoubtedly makes things happen!”

Sustainability and carbon reduction have been one of the key drivers of DMA’s design. The scheme offers an enhanced public realm, delivering a net-gain in the ecological value of the site, post construction, owing to the higher distinctiveness and biodiversity value of the proposed habitats, rather than the species-poor habitats on the existing site

Laurynas Deveikis, senior project architect, added: “This was an exceptionally challenging project, with a tight planning and construction programme. Despite the construction starting at the peak of the pandemic, and with material shortages, the project was delivered in advance of the projected completion date.”