Ireported that the move involves a commitment to investing more than £21 million in the conversion of the existing building into a hotel. A planning application for a new hotel on Festival Square in Edinburgh has been submitted.

Whitbread Plc, the owner of the Premier Inn hotel chain, has lodged plans to transform Capital House into a 195-bedroom Premier Inn brand offering.

After acquiring the 65,350-square-foot office block off Lothian Road last year, Whitbread has been preparing a planning application to change the use of the building to a hotel, which was now been submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council.

The plan for the rear of the building. (Image: LMA Architects) The plans lodged involve the conversion of the existing building and rear extension of the 1980s office block,

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