MORE details have emerged of plans for a new hotel in the centre of York.

Boutique hotel chain Malmaison revealed they were drawing up plans for Yorkshire House - the former Aviva building on Rougier Street - in July.

A full planning application has now been submitted to City of York Council, showing exactly what the company wants to do.

Under their plans, the building will get a bronze-clad roof extension, and a seven-storey rear extension, and will become a 124-bed hotel with 36 serviced apartments.

If approved, the new hotel would be next to The Grand Hotel, which is itself in the process of extending into the former office block Roman House.

Planning documents produced by DLG Architects show the building’s new owners do not think it is suitable for modern office requirements but would be a “superb opportunity” for conversion into a high end hotel. Malmaison has signed a lease with the building’s owners, they say, but need to increase the flood space to create services suites and apartments to make the new business viable.

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They want to put a hotel bar, restaurant and coffee shop on the ground floor, and bedrooms on floors one to six - spaces that are currently set out as open plan offices.

The roof top will extended up to the height of plant equipment currently there, and a bronze clad roof top extension will house the additional apartments, which designers say will have minimal glazing to keep the impact low at night.

Finally, a seven storey new build extension is planned for the south west of Yorkshire House’s plot - on land between the existing building and The Grand Hotel.

The architects say it will be 20 metres away for the other hotel building, and will be set back from the main elevation of Yorkshire House.

They added: “It also significantly improves the enclosure of the city block masking the unsightly/cluttered views of the courtyard currently visible when walking the City Walls and Station Road. Views of the significant elements of the Grand Hotel North East gable will be retained ie chimney, ornamental, windows, quoins and signage.”