Billionaire plans luxury hotel featuring NO TVs to 'promote rest' - next to Piccadilly Gardens

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A luxury hotel could open next to Piccadilly Gardens which would contain rooms without TVs to help promote 'deep rest.' The upper floors of the Royal Buildings have been earmarked to be transformed into a 187-bedroom Zedwell hotel under proposals submitted to Manchester City Council.

London real estate firm Criterion Capital, which is run by billionaire Asif Aziz, is behind the scheme which snapped up the building earlier this year. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features The plans have been designed by Manchester-based Buttress Architects which helped restore Mackie Mayor with Muse Developments in 2015.

If the proposals are approved, the building's upper four floors would be converted while the ground floor, which is occupied by Costa Coffee and Burger King, would be unaffected.

The building is currently empty apart from a language school that occupies two floors and is expected to move out in June next year.