Queenstown

 

PHOTO: An artist’s impression of a proposed nine-storey, 442 room hotel on Brecon St, in Queenstown.

A hotel developer is having a second crack at building Queenstown’s highest building.

Graham Wilkinson was granted permission to build a 393-room, seven-storey hotel in Brecon St in July, but now wants to add two additional storeys.

If granted, the new central Queenstown hotel would be 27.7 metres high – almost twice the 15.5m permitted limit – and could have 442 rooms.

Wilkinson said the new building would look better than the shorter version.

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