Ferens Art Gallery will get a £1.5m refurb, ahead of hosting the Turner Prize as part of the 2017 City of Culture.
Great news! Would love to attend. I remember being a fine art student at Beverley College and being the only one in the class to stand up for the Turner Prize and Martin Creed, as my tutor took a lesson just to slate both.
Excellent news for the City. Now I'm sure if I put some of my cats **** on a stick I will be in with a chance of winning the thing.
Possibly at the new boutique aparthotels that are being built opposite Holy Trinity? Failing that, there's a Holiday Inn on a Marina, or The Village, or a little further out there's The Hallmark, Lazaat's, or Willerby Manor, I'm sure they'll muddle by.
None of em are great are they? The lack of decent hotels in the city - I'm talking 4 star and even 3 star - is going to be a real barrier to top level events.
That's why stuff like this is happening(and why the City of Culture award is such a big deal for the city)... Boutique hotel plan for Hull's Old Town Proposals have been submitted for a new city centre boutique hotel. Subject to securing planning permission, the scheme would see an existing row of shops and offices directly opposite Holy Trinity Church in the city's Old Town being converted into overnight accommodation. The project has been put forward by Hull-based commercial property development firm Allenby Commercial. The company's recent work has included converting the former Regent House office in Osborne Street into a new city centre police station. It has also completed a major office refurbishment scheme in Alfred Gelder Street in the city centre, converting former council premises into new commercial office space. Under the hotel scheme, the property in North Church Side will be converted into up to 30 short-stay apartments. Georgia Allenby, the company's design co-ordinator, said: "As soon as planning is approved, we would be looking to start on site. "The idea is to be open by March or April next year, giving us an almost full trading year before 2017 and the City of Culture year. "2017 has been a big inspiration for us because if you have family or friends visiting Hull there isn't really any accommodation like this in the city centre at the moment. "Most other city centres have boutique hotels, but not Hull." She said the location almost picked itself. "Being next to Holy Trinity Church and the square is a fantastic setting. If it takes off as we hope it will, we would look at opening another in the city centre." http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Bout...tory-25968044-detail/story.html#ixzz3QstfXsoE
Yeah I'd seen this and it's a nice idea if it happens but they still will hardly be high-end. And I've seen this kind of thing before, there was a very similar application for Institute years ago. What happened to that? Remember the grandiose plans for swanky hotels along the river - The Boom was it called?
They were flats and that development lost it's funding when the credit crunch hit, there was only one hotel there and it went ahead(it's the Premier Inn that's there now), but that was a £100m development, not a 30 room conversion of an existing building and it will be a very nice development.
And the Institute one? Look I'm not saying it wont happen, I'm not negative about this kind of thing, but pinning hopes on it might be a bit premature.
I don't know what the Institute one is. I'm confident the other one will go ahead, mainly because the developer is the bloke I go to City with every week.
The apart-hotel work is due to start soon isn't it? I've seen the planning docs - looks good. It looks like there will be communal gardens in the centre, with the shop fronts being glass for passers-by to look into the gardens. The work on the PCSO HQ was good as well - turned a naff 60s block into something modern. It seems quite a few hotel chains are interested in coming to Hull, but al the development sites are either owned by crooks, or developers who don't seem to have any money. Allenby and Wykeland seem to be 2 of the most pro-active developers in the area - maybe the 2 should team up to provide a top-quality hotel and conference facility, as was proposed at Trinity Quay?
Sorry not a chance, cat **** on a stick is yesterdays news. I'm taking a garden shed but built inside out. Hope no one nick's my tools which will be hanging on the outside. Nah wait too much hard work that. better with a pallet of house bricks.
Thats brilliant. Just make sure there's a few copies of Razzle n Readers Wives on the shelf. And to appeal to the luvvies probably some harry monk sprayed about.
