Plans to revamp a run-down historic building in Birmingham city centre to create a new hotel and leisure development are set to be approved next week. In May, Irish developer Oakmount and sister leisure firm Creative Cedar announced they had bought Methodist Central Hall in Corporation Street and were planning to renovate the grade II* listed building.
The application will go before Birmingham City Council's planning committee on Thursday where officers have recommended that it is approved.
The overall vision for Methodist Central Hall is a mixed-use complex with a hotel containing up to 155 bedrooms, a three-storey roof extension to house a restaurant and bar called Sophie's, new commercial and business units and the restoration of the auditorium. Developers also want to build an event space and nightclub in the basement, a public gym and renovate shop fronts on the ground floor.
