A new boutique hotel and restaurant looks set to arrive on the Newcastle Quayside, after winning the backing of city planners.
The team behind the trendy Cow Hollow Hotel in Manchester’s Northern Quarter have won permission to launch a new venture on Tyneside, taking over a historic building that has lain empty for several years. Under proposals approved by Newcastle City Council this week, the grade II listed Eldon Chambers building on the Quayside is finally in line for a long-awaited overhaul.
The former law offices, which have been vacant since 2016, will be converted into a 26-bedroom hotel, with a restaurant and bar on the ground floor. Granting planning permission for the redevelopment on Wednesday, the city council said that the hotel project would “protect the building’s historic significance”.
