Ordnance Survey car park to be transformed
A car park next to Compass House, a prominent Southampton building, may be developed into a hotel if plans are approved.
Compass House, in the Maybush district of Southampton, used to be the home of the Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, until 2011. Approval has already been granted to transform these premises into 245 flats.
The plans for the hotel on the car park site involve a three-storey hotel with 73 rooms and 34 parking spaces.
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