The development will include an 11-storey luxury boutique hotel with 80 bedrooms – an increase from the 60 bedrooms originally planned, plus a 15-storey residential tower with 88 apartments. The hotel would also feature conference and events space, a health spa and restaurant.

The Quality Inn building, widely regarded in the city as an ‘eyesore’, was demolished last year.

Construction of the new hotel is scheduled to begin in late autumn of 2017. The 1620 is due for completion in late-2019, in time for the 400th anniversary celebrations to mark the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth to the New World in 1620.

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