THE DISUSED offices where the ill-fated Titanic was designed look set to be turned in to a new boutique hotel.

A Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £5million will breathe new life into the old Drawing Offices at the Harland & Wolff shipbuilders yard in Belfast.

From these offices, plans for over a thousand ships were drafted including Titanic and HMS Belfast. The offices have stood empty since 1989 but under new plans, the offices could be opened to the public and a brand new 87-room boutique hotel will be developed.

109 FTE jobs are expected to be created by the regeneration scheme which sits in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter.

See inside the Harland & Woolf Drawing offices

The new Heritage Enteprise scheme is designed to unlock the potential of heritage buildings where the cost of repair currently makes them financially unviable. Other schemes to benefit in this round of awards include the Northern Counties Club in Derry where a luxury hotel will be built.

Belfast

Rob Powell

Editor of BoutiqueHotels.co.uk

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