PLANS to build a 120-room hotel and a petrol filling station complex on the new £250m Solstice Park business estate on the outskirts of Amesbury have been delayed.

Planners decided last week they needed to see more information from the developers, the Amesbury Property Company, before making their final decision.

Members of Salisbury district council's northern area committee felt they needed a presentation and exhibition of the plans showing detailed information about the hotel and the petrol station.

A council spokesman said no date had yet been decided for the presentation but it was likely to be towards the end of May.

There is already outline planning consent for a hotel on the business park and an outline permission for developing the whole 160-acre site as a business and industrial estate.

The site chosen for the hotel is off the A303 at the lower end of Beacon Hill near the proposed new Solstice Park junction.

A spokesman for the company said it was a "temporary hiccup" and full detailed plans and artist's impressions will be made available for the councillors to study.