COMMERCIAL / HOLIDAY LETS & SERVICED ACCOMMODATION
Turn a building into holiday lets — the planning and the fit-out.
Change-of-use planning and design for holiday lets and serviced accommodation, including upper-floor conversions above hospitality and in sensitive central locations.
- We secure
- Change of use
- Suits
- Investors · operators
- Settings
- Central · heritage
- Proven
- 4 lets, Queen Sq, Bristol
- “The upper floors have been empty for years.”
- “The council is twitchy about short-term lets — can it still be done?”
- “We want drink-dine-sleep under one roof.”
Holiday accommodation in a central location raises pointed policy questions — town-centre vitality, residential amenity, the management of short-term lets. The application that succeeds answers them head-on: we frame the lets as complementary to the ground-floor use and the wider regeneration case, evidenced and argued properly.
We've done exactly this at the hardest difficulty setting: four self-contained holiday lets consented on the upper floors of a derelict landmark in a Grade I Georgian square, above an A3/A4 venue, in full compliance with Bristol's sustainability policy. Design and fit-out then make each unit earn: layouts that respect the building while maximising lettable space.
- Four holiday lets consented on Queen Square, Bristol — a Grade I setting with the toughest policy overlay.
- We argue short-term-let policy properly instead of hoping it isn't noticed.
- Unit layouts designed for character and yield at once — then built by the same team.
Former Seamen's Institute — four holiday lets above a bar-restaurant
Mixed-use consent in a Grade I townscape: hospitality below, four self-contained holiday lets above, sustainability policy passed in full.
Read the case studyDo holiday lets need planning permission?
Usually a change of use is required, and policy on short-term lets is tightening — the application needs a proper case on amenity and town-centre vitality. That's the case we build.
Can lets sit above a bar or restaurant?
Yes, with acoustic design and a management argument that shows the uses supporting each other — the exact scheme we consented in Bristol.
Do you design the interiors too?
Yes — unit layouts, specification and fit-out, balancing the building's character against lettable floor area.
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Upper floors earning nothing? They could be.
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