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Birmingham restaurant and apartment project set for green light

Vacant office building in Colmore Business District could be given new life after laying vacant for four years

The project to convert 7-8 Waterloo Street, on the right of the photo, into serviced apartments looks set to get the green light next week

A project to bring a vacant Grade II-listed office building back into use as serviced apartments is set to receive the green light next week.

Rustic Pine Developments to turn 7-8 Waterloo Street, in the into 32 one- and two-bedroom serviced apartments with a bar or restaurant on the ground floor and basement.

Birmingham City Council's planning committee has been recommended to approve the application when it meets on January 22, subject to officers securing a £16,000 contribution from the developer for public transport improvements in the vicinity.

The seven-storey building, which neighbours a Premier Inn and counts several bars and restaurants in close proximity, InterContinental Hotels Group more than two years ago.

It wanted to open a 61-bedroom Hotel Indigo to join its existing outlet in The Cube.

This was also to be run by Rustic Pine Developments but InterContinental Hotels Group is not connected to this latest project.

The building has been unoccupied for more than four years and planning permission was granted in 2010 for the change of use to a hotel but this has since lapsed.

A report prepared ahead of the committee meeting said: "The re-use and refurbishment of the listed building complies with the objectives of the national and local planning policy.