Hotel to be built out of shipping containers

A hotel made entirely out of shipping containers is in the pipeline in Liverpool.

London-based Snoozebox has asked to be allowed to create 56 bedrooms in the city's Baltic Market.

The company said it wanted to keep the containers there for 15 years so they did not have any impact on longer-term plans for regeneration of the area.

A date has yet to be confirmed for councillors to consider the company's application.

Temporary hotel rooms in shipping containers were first seen during the British Grand Prix in 2011, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) says.

The developers argued in their plans that the black shipping containers would fit in with nearby buildings.

The majority of the units would would have three bedrooms within each container, which are 45ft (13.7m) in length.

The hotel would be open 24 hours a day, seven days per week with a 24-hour licence for hotel guests.

Snoozebox, which has a site in London's Olympic Park, is a subsidiary of the Portable Living Group, which specialises in portable accommodation.

It said its guests were offered "compact and cleverly designed en-suite hotel rooms and hotel services".

Snoozebox's planning application said the Baltic Market site would reflect its "historic industrial context" while providing a "contemporary reinterpretation of details in new developments in the area".

The company said it also wanted to open a bar and entertainment and music venue space which would be open to the public every day from 1100 GMT to 0100.

It said its plans would "allow more people to visit and stay in the area, which will have a positive economic impact on local businesses in accordance with the Baltic Triangle."

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