The Intercontinental Hotel in St Julian’s will be getting an additional three storeys after the planning authority this afternoon gave the development its blessing.

The hotel is the first to benefit from the new height policy, through which the Eden Leisure Group was also given permission to demolish the former Giorgiani’s hotel, a few metres further down, and rebuild a six-storey Holiday Inn Express Hotel.

The new policy, approved last month, specifies that hotels can add two floors over and above the limit for that area if the site area is under 5,000 square metres.

More than two floors could be added if the area was larger as long as the hotel was surrounded by planned or existing roads, or stood alone.

The entire site of the Intercontinental Hotel covers an area of around 10,200 square metres with frontages on two streets and 451 suites. It will now have 18 floors.

The Intercontinental’s additional floors, include an open-air storey for services, 32 hotel suites and a bar with pool deck amenity area.

The project will include eco certification and recycling of grey water as part of its environmentally-friendly features.

The former Giorgiani’s Hotel will have 99 guest rooms spread over six floors.

The façade over Saint Rita Steps will be finished with exposed concrete with recessed coloured concrete designs and white aluminium louvers. The frontage on Triq Santu Wistin will have different bright colours to delineate the terraces of each hotel room.

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