The Royal Victoria Dock community doesn't need yet another hotel and certainly not another floating one taking up vital leisure space on our dock. There are already FIVE full service hotels along Western Gateway (two of them floating) and another SIX between ExCeL and the Connaught Bridge.
The existing Good Hotel (GH1) escaped over £1.6million of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) in 2024 because it claimed to be a vessel and not a building. No doubt the same trick will be used again, this time to deprive the London Borough of Newham of an even larger amount of money that should go to the local community.
The new hotel (GH2) is planned to be at least one floor higher and significantly larger than GH1, will be located immediately behind it and will consequently block the view of the Dock, the Thames and Canary Wharf for many more existing apartment owners.
It brings no benefits of any kind to existing residents, financial or otherwise, and will simply create additional crowds, noise, litter and nuisance in what is a residential community.
The design is unattractive and will have an unfavourable impact on the environment for both residents and wildlife.
SAY NO TO THIS SOCIALLY USELESS PROJECT.
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Reached 250 supporters
September 2, 2025
Reached 100 supporters
August 1, 2025
6 Comments
The place is a residential area not a tourist trap. Total eyesore and just creates more mess for us to deal with.
Enough is enough. We live here and we definitely do not need more hotels blocking our view and crowding the place out.
Fix the roads and clean the streets instead of cluttering the dock with more floating hotels. Nobody wants this.
MY VIEW IS ALREADY GONE. Please stop this now before it gets even worse.
Ridiculous idea. They already skirted the rules once with the first one. Newham needs to stop letting them get away with this.
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The Royal Victoria Dock community doesn't need yet another hotel and certainly not another floating one taking up vital leisure space on our dock. There are already FIVE full service hotels along Western Gateway (two of them floating) and another SIX between ExCeL and the Connaught Bridge.
The existing Good Hotel (GH1) escaped over £1.6million of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) in 2024 because it claimed to be a vessel and not a building. No doubt the same trick will be used again, this time to deprive the London Borough of Newham of an even larger amount of money that should go to the local community.
The new hotel (GH2) is planned to be at least one floor higher and significantly larger than GH1, will be located immediately behind it and will consequently block the view of the Dock, the Thames and Canary Wharf for many more existing apartment owners.
It brings no benefits of any kind to existing residents, financial or otherwise, and will simply create additional crowds, noise, litter and nuisance in what is a residential community.
The design is unattractive and will have an unfavourable impact on the environment for both residents and wildlife.
SAY NO TO THIS SOCIALLY USELESS PROJECT.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 2, 2025
Reached 100 supporters
August 1, 2025
6 Comments
Way too many hotels here already. It feels like the council is giving away our space for nothing.
The place is a residential area not a tourist trap. Total eyesore and just creates more mess for us to deal with.
Enough is enough. We live here and we definitely do not need more hotels blocking our view and crowding the place out.
Fix the roads and clean the streets instead of cluttering the dock with more floating hotels. Nobody wants this.
MY VIEW IS ALREADY GONE. Please stop this now before it gets even worse.
Ridiculous idea. They already skirted the rules once with the first one. Newham needs to stop letting them get away with this.
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Way too many hotels here already. It feels like the council is giving away our space for nothing.