Plans for flats and hotel at former Gloucester office block
There's applications to redevelop the old Ecclesiastical building
There are plans to turn a disused office block and historic house in Gloucester city centre into 67 self-contained flats and a 36-bed hotel.
Ahmet Gayretli wants to redevelop the former home of Ecclesiastical Insurance at Beaufort House in Brunswick Road.
Two separate planning applications have been submitted to Gloucester City Council to change the use of the historic house into a hotel and the four-storey purpose-built 1970s office extension into flats.
The three-storey building is grade II listed and is part of an early 19th Century terraced row of houses associated with the Gloucester Spa Company dating back to 1852.
No exterior changes are proposed as part of the proposals but the scheme would see changes to the internal layout.
The lower ground floor would provide space for a hotel office, storage and plant room as well as a kitchen and two dining rooms for customers.
The upper ground floor or first floor level will accommodate the hotel reception, a lounge and bar area as well as ten bedrooms.
The second floor will house 14 bedrooms including a family suite and the third floor will have 12 rooms.
The proposals also include an outdoor seating terrace to the rear of the building which would be accessed via the main dining room. The site would have seven parking spaces for guests and four for staff.
There would also be two Sheffield cycle parking stands to the side of the main entrance.
Consultants working on the scheme say the change of use to create a hotel would be appropriate at the edge of the city centre.
The proposals for self-contained flats include a mixture one to two bed flats. Some of the two bed flats would be for up to three people to live in.
“The grade II listed building would be preserved and enhanced, through the retention of the historic layout, removal of unsympathetic partitions and internal accretions and the proposal would result in an optima viable use,” they said in the planning documents submitted to the council.
People have until May 7th to comment on the flats proposal with the deadline for comments on the hotel plans, May 15th.