Plans to build a Radisson hotel with a roof top bar in a “deteriorating” part of the city centre and knock down a listed building will go before councillors for a hearing next week.

Planners are recommending refusal of the 19-storey Apart Hotel plan on Maxwell Street, which would have 236 rooms including a number of serviced apartments.

Part of the development would see buildings demolished including a B-listed former printworks to make way for the new hotel on a site described as a ‘backland’ to St. Enoch Centre.

A design statement lodged with the council on behalf of applicant Regent Property Ltd said that “the emerging proposals, present a catalyst for change and much needed regeneration and investment in Maxwell Street.”

It said the development would offer a “high-end rooftop res

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