Harphill Pty Ltd is planning to reimagine the Piccadilly Hotel and terrace buildings fronting Victoria Street and Broughton Street as multi-use accommodation with food and drink premises.

NSW’s planning department has signed off on a planning proposal, which seeks to permit ‘hotel and motel accommodation’ as an additional permitted use at 90 and 100 – 104 Brougham Street in Potts Point. This will facilitate consolidation and expansion of the Piccadilly Hotel at 169 – 173 Victoria Street and 92 – 98 Brougham Street (as 90 and 100 – 104 Brougham Street sit in-between these properties).

This proposal is subsequent to a previous proposal for land between the allotments (i.e. 169 – 173 Victoria Street and 92 – 98 Brougham Street) the subject of this proposal to also insert ‘hotel and motel accommodation’ as an additional permitted use. This proposal supports the following:

• consolidation of 92 – 98 Brougham Street with the adjacent Piccadilly Hotel, a listed heritage item at 171 – 173 Victoria Street and the neighbouring terrace house at 169 Victoria Street into a single 43-room boutique hotel,
• restoring and adapting the row of townhouses occupying the site for 12 hotel rooms and creating a central courtyard by amalgamating the rear yards of the terraces, and
• providing a hotel lobby and food and drink premises activating the ground floor frontage to Victoria Street as well as the courtyard.

The additional permitted use request is necessary as the R1 zoning on the sites do not permit hotel and motel accommodation.