Ten years since Yates: See the £7.1 million hotel and restaurant being built on the site of history in Blackpool town centre

As part of The Gazette's special series commemorating a decade since the historic Yates Wine Lodge building burnt down, we look at the £7.1 million hotel and restaurant replacing it.
An artist's impression of how the building will look once it is finished next year (Picture: Premier Inn/Whitbread)An artist's impression of how the building will look once it is finished next year (Picture: Premier Inn/Whitbread)
An artist's impression of how the building will look once it is finished next year (Picture: Premier Inn/Whitbread)

The inferno is estimated to have cost £20 million, as well as robbing Blackpool of part of its heritage - and killing more than 100 animals.