The development will consist of the following:
a) The change of use of the basement and ground floor levels from car park (approximately. 297 sqm) and retail use (approximately. 34.5 sqm) to restaurant use (approximately. 377 sqm) fronting Drury Street and tourist hostel accommodation use (approximately. 322 sqm) fronting South William Street
b) The change of use of the first to fourth floor levels from vacant office to tourist hostel accommodation use comprising a total of 44 no. bedrooms accommodating 273 no. bedspaces in a mixture of 4 – 8 no. person bedrooms (total hostel GFA approximately. 1,717 sqm from basement to fourth floor level). The hostel development will comprise a reception (approximately. 34.5 sqm), lounge area or self-service kitchen (approximately. 115.4 sqm), 2 no. storage areas (approximately. 14.4 sqm) at ground floor level with a main entrance via William Street South. The first floor level will accommodate an approximately. 90.6 sqm outdoor landscaped roof area and the fourth floor level will accommodate 2 no. outdoor terraces, one fronting William Street South (approximately. 53.1 sqm) and one fronting Drury Street (approximately. 57.2 sqm). The basement level will accommodate a bicycle store (approximately. 26.3 sqm) for a total of 24 no. bicycle parking spaces, guest laundry room (approximately. 11.5 sqm), guest lockers (approximately. 7.9 sqm) and ancillary staff areas, storage areas and plant room (approximately. 125.3 sqm)
c) The proposed development will also include internal and external alterations, including demolition of the existing basement ramp, reduction of the basement floor area from approx. 405 sqm to approximately. 334.5 sqm, internal modifications to walls and door openings, replacement of all glazing to existing opes, provision of new shopfronts at ground floor level to serve the restaurant and hostel entrances and the provision of new signage on the William Street South and Drury Street elevations above the main entrances
d) The development also consists of the construction of an approximately. 91 sqm extension at ground floor level to the centre of the site only and new open roof level open plant area (115.2 sqm). The proposed development will also provide for all ancillary site services and associated development works above and below ground.
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