Inverness hotels plan major expansion amid tourist boom

INVERNESS’S tourist boom shows no signs of slowing as a city hotel has lodged plans to more than treble in size.

Jon and Victoria Erasmus, owners of the Waterside Hotel in Ness Bank, want to increase the number of bedrooms there from 28 to 85, utilising existing car parking as space for the new accommodation.

New owners of the Crown Court Hotel in Southside Road have also announced they will be creating an additional 10 rooms as part of a major refurbishment and the team behind the new hotel planned for the site of the former Glebe Street swimming pool have confirmed construction will start there later this year.

Developers behind a further hotel planned for the site of the two-storey car park in Rose Street have also just lodged a request for consent to create a new road leading from the neighbouring bus station there, which they promised as part of the development.

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