Inverness riverside hotel’s revival bid makes another step after in-house laundry plan lodged with Highland Council
Efforts to bring a mothballed city centre hotel back into use continue to gather pace after another planning application was lodged.
Strathness House Hotel, which sits on a prominent riverside site in Ardross Terrace overlooking the river and Inverness Cathedral, is currently closed.
But a number of planning applications have been working their way through the system as the owners seek to bring the hotel back into use.
The most recent of these, last month, involved proposals for new signage which would rename the site as the Ambassador Hotel. The popular in-house restaurant Tiger on the Wall, which is also closed, would be rebranded as Talk of the Town.
Elsewhere, a planning application is also in the works to use the former West End Guest House in nearby Kenneth Street as staff accommodation for the new hotel - with supporting documents saying that this would help Strathness House reopen.
And now another application has been lodged, this time for the creation of a new in-house laundry facility at the rear of neighbouring 6-7 Ardross Terrace.
The new wood-clad extension, which would also have “Ballachulish roofing slate”, would be placed next to a metal fire access staircase at the rear of the building, and would be used to provide on-site laundry for the hotel at neighbouring 3-4 Ardross Terrace.
A supporting document lodged with the application described the proposed laundry as a “dedicated laundry facility to meet the operational needs of the proposed hotel located at 3&4 Ardross Terrace, Inverness”.
It added: “The development is intended to improve the internal efficiency and sustainability of the hotels’ operations while remaining sensitive to the sites’ historic and residential context.”
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