Glasgow City Council has approved a planning application to restore
an empty office building on the corner of St. Vincent and Douglas
Streets in the IFSD back to use as a 149-bed hotel.
The plans were submitted last year by Faulkner Browns Architects to
convert the B-listed 250 St Vincent Street into Scotland's first
Melia 'Innside' hotel, with a three-storey extension, a new
bar/restaurant area, conference and wedding facilities and a
fitness suite.
The project will involve the demolition of an existing reinforced
concrete roof, to allow the addition of up to three additional
floors of accommodation.
The planning application documents stated that, 'The redevelopment
will bring a longstanding vacant office building back into
beneficial use, reinstating the grandeur of the building and
returning it to its original use as a 149 bedroom Meliá Innside
hotel.
The development provides significant conservation gain through the
careful repair and conservation of the historic façades,
remodelling of the internal spaces and reinstatement of a number of
external features lost as part of a 1980s redevelopment which
involved the demolition of the majority of the building, where the
elevations to St Vincent Street and Douglas Street only were
retained.
Glasgow City Council has approved a planning application to
restore an empty office building on the corner of St. Vincent and
Douglas Streets in the IFSD back to use as a 149-bed hotel.
The plans were submitted last year by Faulkner Browns Architects
to convert the B-listed 250 St Vincent Street into Scotland's first
Melia 'Innside' hotel, with a three-storey extension, a new
bar/restaurant area, conference and wedding facilities and a
fitness suite.
The project will involve the demolition of an existing
reinforced concrete roof, to allow the addition of up to three
additional floors of accommodation.
The planning application documents stated that, 'The
redevelopment will bring a longstanding vacant office building back
into beneficial use, reinstating the grandeur of the building and
returning it to its original use as a 149 bedroom Meliá Innside
hotel."
The development provides significant conservation gain through
the careful repair and conservation of the historic façades,
remodelling of the internal spaces and reinstatement of a number of
external features lost as part of a 1980s redevelopment which
involved the demolition of the majority of the building, where the
elevations to St Vincent Street and Douglas Street only were
retained.