A major expansion of Swansea's Grand Hotel will get under way next year. A four-storey rear extension will add 42 rooms to the current 53, and there will be an expanded rooftop bar area on the fifth floor with conference rooms, a new gym for guests, a new residents' lounge and a reconfigured banquet room.
The actual roof of the rooftop area will be sown with greenery, while a 'living' wall featuring more plants will be added to the High Street-facing side of the hotel. You can get more Swansea news and other story updates by subscribing to our newsletters here.
The scheme was unanimously approved by Swansea Council's planning committee after councillors had asked where the works' compound would be, and whether an archaeological brief - given the site's proximity to an old burial ground - would be submitted before the project began.
