Architects withdraw hotel plans

The site would have included an 18-storey hotel

Controversial plans to build an 18-storey hotel and apartment complex in Nottingham have been withdrawn.

The scheme would have seen the demolition of the disused Odeon cinema on Angel Row, but the city council confirmed plans had been withdrawn.

Nottingham-based architects CPMG faced strong opposition from conservationists who said the development would be "out of place".

CPMG declined to comment on why they were not continuing with their plans.

The plans for the Picture House, as the development would have been known, called for more than 100 flats, a hotel and hundreds of parking spaces.

But the Nottingham Civic Society said the development, in a conservation area, would ruin the skyline.

The former cinema closed in 2001 and has been derelict since then.