PLANS to convert a Helensburgh takeaway into a hotel extension remain under consideration by council officers – over a year after they were lodged.
Management of the County Hotel submitted a revised plan for the site of the Curry Club, on Old Luss Road, in September 2024, with a decision expected two months later.
But the planning process remains ongoing, with a traffic survey report and proposals for car parking published by Argyll and Bute Council this month.
The drawings show 15 parking spaces proposed for vacant land on the opposite side of a neighbouring general store, and that an adjacent layby would be reduced.
Six comments, five of them objections and one being a neutral representation, have been received by the council since the application was lodged.
A design statement submitted at the time of the application said: “The applicant wishes to increase the number of rooms available to the hotel to meet demand. The additional rooms aim to be attractive, functional, and enhance existing facilities by providing a proportion of barrier free accessible rooms.
“The strategy taken was to design suitably sized rooms within the constraints of the existing structure of the hot food takeaway premises, utilising the attic space to provide further rooms. Fenestration has been proposed within existing recessed panels to the gable where possible.
“Regrading of the existing hotel forecourt will enable barrier free access from the roadside, with stepped access directly between the existing hotel and proposed rooms.
“Access shall be from the existing access from the existing footway crossing from Old Luss Road to existing car parking forecourt of The County Hotel.
“The existing layby will be stopped up. Parking shall be augmented with introduction of parking accessed from a footway crossing to the north of the site, giving sufficient car parking required for the current room occupancy, the proposed rooms, and to relocate the displaced layby parking provision.”
