S3304 Sheldon Park Hotel

If I don't know a hotel well, I usually do a quick check of its website to see how heavily it promotes its bar facilities - some have been very hidden and really residents-only despite having public licences (1014503 Hotel 7 being the most complex so far). The website here suggests that guests "meet the locals" in the bar, so it was clear this would be easily open to the public

There is an absolutely huge bar here, taking up maybe half the entire ground floor of the hotel - which is relatively large. If standalone this would be reliant on its carvery trade as that took up a lot of the space and was on the plates of most of the other customers when I visited.

This area of the city is due for a huge increase in population in the next few years - right next door, a few small cottages have been replaced by a large apartment block that is finishing off construction now; with apartments planned for the Concorde Industrial Estate and Royal Liver Retail Park also. I'd expect at least one new pub in the Royal Liver development; but there's definitely a potential for splitting this in to a carvery and a more modern pub for the additional clientele in a few years.