The planning application, which does not include any publicly available supporting documents or design images, states that the development will require “partial demolition of State Heritage Place, including internal building works”.
A spokesperson for Planning and Land Use Services said the “proposed demolition is to a rear portion of part of the hotel (including more recent additions)”.
“The proposed sixteen storey building … is to be constructed on the same Certificate of Title as occupied by the hotel (to the rear of the hotel),” the spokesperson said.
Future Urban managing director Chris Vounasis said the partial demolition “involves the removal of the ground and first-floor areas that formed later additions to the rear of the original hotel building”.
Vounasis said no artist renditions of the plans are currently available, but the development “seeks to continue the historical use of the King’s Head Hotel as a Hotel/Licensed premises”.
“A number of internal works are proposed to reinvigorate the social and entertainment offering and to reinforce the hotel’s continued future operation,” he said.
“This will be supplemented by a mixed-use building to the rear that will comprise both tourist accommodation (serviced apartments) and residential apartments.”
Local resident Bailey Underwood expressed his concern with the project in a comment on the South Australian Planning Alerts website.
“The King’s Head Hotel as it stands has frontages on 3 streets, and its heritage nature is part of what gives the area its unique character,” he commented on the application.
