A stalled office development in Glasgow city centre could be brought forward as a mix of 300 hotel rooms and 446 student beds following submission of new plans for the prominent junction of Renfield and Renfrew Street’s.

Drawings submitted by Consarc Design Group call for the creation of a Maldron Hotel on the vacant corner plot after repeated attempts to pursue an office solution met with ‘limited financial viability’.

In a summary of their bid Consarc wrote: “Over many years, various attempts have been made to reconcile an office building use on this site and there appears to have been limited financial viability to develop this particular use. It therefore seems that a more sustainable use for this site is a mixed-use development, one that brings variety and contributes to local business and tourism in the city. 

“Contextually the existing vacant site is unsatisfactory, there is a tremendous opportunity to put back a missing urban block in this important site.”