Planning permission has been approved to develop a new hotel in Belfast.

The new 188-bedroom hotel is to be situated in the City Quays area of the city.

The site was last used as part of the former Seacat ferry terminal.

Belfast City Council's Planning Committee also approved a planning application for a six storey rear extension to Jury's Hotel in Great Victoria Street which will provide 80 additional bedrooms, an office suite and car parking.

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The hotel planning applications follow a number of others granted approval in recent months by the Committee.

The Planning Committee last night also gave the green light to a planning application for a new purpose-built managed student accommodation development on the Dublin Road with 156 bedrooms.

Permission was also given to an application for the demolition of an existing building at York Street to make way for a 12 storey mixed-use building with 407 student accommodation rooms.

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