Plans submitted for new Hull Hotel

Plans to turn an ex-doctor's surgery into a hotel have been submitted to Hull City Council, just months after Councillors approved plans to convert it into a HMO.

There is now an application to convert John Symons House, Park Row into a 30-room hotel. The building, which is believed to have been built around the 1890s, has has a versatile history, having been repurposed numerous times over the decades, most notably being used as a doctor's surgery.

As well as a change of use, the application includes the erection of a two storey side extension to the existing building. The proposed extension would be built in a complimentary way to the historic building and would, the plans claim, conceal an existing 'unsympathetic' extension.

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The transformation of the property would also include a 14 space carpark to provide parking for guests and staff, a secure cycle storage area, and refuse storage.

Despite permission being granted for the building to become a 23-bed HMO earlier this year, it has remained unoccupied.

The planning statement reads: "The re-use of the building has a number of indirect benefits, primarily economic, in terms of increasing the quantity and range of tourism accommodation available to visitors, supporting the vibrancy of the area and the services, shops and facilities that are on offer both locally and in the city centre. It will give rise to increased spend in the local area, and support public transport routes into the city."

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