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Picardy Place hotel receives granted planning approval!

10 Jul 2024

 

We are pleased that our hotel development has received a granted planning permission!

The 51-bed hotel which rescues and repurposes a Category B listed Georgian terrace building centrally located on Picardy Place, within Edinburgh’s New Town Conservation Area and Edinburgh’s Old and New Town World Heritage Site.

The conversion and extension address a building that suffered from extensive brutal alteration to form a reinforced parking garage for a car hire company.
The proposal alters the non-original concrete frame to introduce an open inner courtyard which allows natural light to penetrate to all floors down to the lower ground level, a reference towards the former rear garden that once served the main townhouse.
Rooms wrap around this new source of natural light at the heart of the building; a basement area to the front is reinstated along with a contemporary ground floor entrance and the Georgian façade is to be fully restored.