The existing Leonardo Royal Hotel on Jeffrey Street Edinburgh is at the centre of the Edinburgh Old Town UNESCO World Heritage Site with one of the highest room occupancies in the UK.
The existing hotel has remained fully operational throughout the works and now benefits from a new 8 storey, 100 bedroom extension, successfully handed over earlier this year.
The wider development is now nearing completion and includes:
- 31 new residential apartments
- Four retail units arranged around external courtyard terraces
- A new 125 bed boutique hotel
We look forward to the final elements being handed over in the near future.
Fairhurst provided multi-disciplinary engineering support from the earliest stages of the project. Our geo-environmental and transport planning input was key to securing planning consent, followed by the delivery of an 8-storey reinforced concrete flat slab structure with multiple basement levels carefully stepped into the site’s steep topography.
The project required detailed ground investigation and close analysis of both temporary and permanent works to protect neighbouring listed buildings within this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Complex challenges were successfully addressed, including the surface water drainage strategy with basement attenuation tanks, as well as significant structural alterations to the existing 1960s hotel and a Grade C listed tenement. Together, these works now provide a seamless connection between the historic frontage and the new development.
