Hotel Proposal for Baron House

A Planning application has now been submitted to convert the former GNER Customer Service Centre known to many as Baron House into a 160 Bed Hotel. Already a number of chains are complaining about saturation in the Hotel market, but for me anything that provides competition and gives the customer more choice has to be a good thing! That said I'm not sure about the fancy cladding in what is quite a historic part of town so I hope they will look at this element again and here's hoping that if this goes ahead we can see the end of the scaffolding that seems to have frequented this building for as long as I can remember!

Images from the planning application:

Neville Street Elevation

Planning Application Reference: 2012/1559/01/DET