Premier Inn, Whitbread's budget hotel arm, is to build a new 267-bedroom, £25m hotel at Stratford in east London, UK. It will be part of the Westfield Stratford City development, adjacent to the Olympic Stadium, and create around 90 jobs.

The property will also be the closest hotel to the new Stratford International high-speed railway station which opened in December 2009. Since the beginning of 2009, Premier Inn has opened or is planning 13 new, predominantly leasehold, hotels across the capital, with a combined value of £160m. They will all - plus the Stratford site - be open and trading by summer 2012. Premier Inn will then have 59 hotels - equating to 8,374 rooms - operating across London.