Flats and shops plan approved for historic former hotel

Flats and shops plan approved for Port Glasgow's Star Hotel <i>(Image: Newsquest)</i>
Flats and shops plan approved for Port Glasgow's Star Hotel (Image: Newsquest)
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Council officials have given the green light to a plan to convert a former historic hotel into flats and shops.

Inverclyde planners have approved a change-of-use application made by BR Homes Ltd concerning the former Star Hotel in Port Glasgow.

The public bar and lounge bar on the ground floor will be turned into two retail units under the plan.

The upper floors, which had nine bedrooms, will be converted into seven apartments, comprising one and two-bedroom units.

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The hotel, which closed in March of last year, had been a fixture of Port Glasgow's town centre since the 19th century. 

In recent years it had operated as a bar and was used for filming on a number of occasions.

Back in 2005, the venue attracted the cast and crew for a movie called Nina's Heavenly Delights, by Greenock writer Andrea Gibb, about an Indian family in the 1980s.

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