Hotel plans for Napier

Plans for a five-storey hotel on Napier’s Marine Parade are being considered by Napier City Council.

The Auckland-based Nautilus Family Trust has applied for resource consent to build a 47-unit hotel on the corner of Marine Pde and Albion St.

The property has been vacant since the building on it was demolished about two years ago.

The proposed building’s ground floor would include a commercialretail tenancy as well as the hotel reception and seven car parks for three residential apartments that would be on the top floor.

The proposed building is 16.11 metres high, which exceeds the 10m maximum height for the inner city commercial zone.

The trust said the building’s facade would not be ‘‘monolithic’’, and ‘‘draws directly on the Art Deco frontage of the adjacent building, mimicking scale and proportion in floor levels and balconies relative to the adjoining parapet and canopy heights’’.

‘‘The upper levels are a mix of glazing, metal cladding, and vertical louvered elements. These materials are presented in a number of different configurations to allow interest and to express the form of the structures within the development,’’ the application stated. It said the fourth and fifth floors would be setback so as to ‘‘soften its bulk’’, and the impacts would be less than minor.

Council team leader of resource consents, Paul O’Shaughnessy, said the application was under review, and an urban design assessment is required to ensure the form and scale of the building was commensurate with the site and its surrounding environment. ‘‘Depending upon the outcome of this assessment, changes to the fabric of the building may result.’’