People in Nottingham have expressed their hopes that work will soon start on the city's historic Guildhall building, two years after plans for a hotel were first revealed. Plans for the site were given the go-ahead in August 2020, with a fine-dining rooftop restaurant and spa among the facilities that will be developed there.
But the building currently remains vacant and graffiti has now been daubed on many of the windows. The entrance to the site has also been boarded up.
The landmark building, on the corner of Burton Street and South Sherwood Street in the city centre, was once home to a magistrates' court and a fire and police station after it was built in 1887. It was most recently occupied by Nottingham City Council, before the authority acquired Loxley House in 2009.
