Two historic buildings in Birmingham city centre are set to be turned into a new 156-bedroom hotel.
The project will involve the partial demolition, redevelopment and refurbishment of the grade II*-listed Murdoch Chambers and Pitman Chambers, at 153-161 Corporation Street.
In addition to the hotel rooms, there will be a gym, meeting rooms and co-working facilities.
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The project will require a nine-storey, new-build element behind the chambers part of the site facing onto Corporation Street, if handed the green light by city council chiefs.
Birmingham-based Czero Developments, the company behind the city's Emporium project in the old Christopher Wray building, is leading the scheme.
There is no future occupier of the hotel referenced in the newly lodged planning application.
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The pair of buildings, which sit close to the city's courts, were built in the 1890s and have been used for a variety of purposes over the years.
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The left side of the building was originally Dean's furniture showroom and warehouse while Pitman's next door was a vegetarian restaurant with upper floors subsequently housing hotel rooms.
A design statement prepared by Jewellery Quarter practice BPN Architects said The Pitman Vegetarian Restaurant and Hotel was opened in 1898 as an expansion of the vegetarian restaurant on the same site.
The building was named after Sir Isaac Pitman, the man behind shorthand, who was at that time vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.
Both the hotel and restaurant were still operating in the 1930s when Mahatma Gandhi visited and the Pitman Building was later turned into a sports shop run by the former Aston Villa player Harry Parkes which traded until the 1990s.
The buildings now have fast food outlets on the ground floor and vacant office space above.
BPN's statement said they were in need of a lot of repair and that the ground-floor shop fronts were of poor quality while the whole façade required cleaning.