Hotel plans for former Scottish Widows headquarters approved

The hexagonal design of the building from above - credit: Sigma Surveys
The hexagonal design of the building from above - credit: Sigma Surveys
Plans to turn the former Scottish Widows headquarters in Edinburgh into a 385-room hotel have been approved. The A-listed building on Dalkeith Road, which has been empty for six years, is set to have some of its 12 hexagonal modules repurposed into one or two hotels, while the other five are in the process of being demolished for a previously-approved residential development on the site. At a City of Edinburgh Council planning meeting on 30 September, concerns from locals and architecture groups were dismissed in favour of the p... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
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