THIS is the artist’s impression of how a new development in Hope Street could look.

Maghull Developments plans to temporarily refurbish the Hahnemann Building to provide short-term flexible office accommodation for up to two years.

It then hopes to convert the Grade II listed building and 58 Hope Street into a four star 50-bedroom boutique hotel with a bar, restaurant and day-spa.

Last night, it claimed it would “raise the bar” of Liverpool hotel accommodation with rooms larger than anywhere else in the city at 32 sq metres in size.

The firm was forced back to the drawing board with its original plans for a 62- bedroom hotel in the Hahnemann Building after the building was listed last year.

Yesterday’s Daily Post included a picture of the old scheme, but Maghull have now released this image of how the revised plans for the new scheme would look.

MD Michael Hanlon said: “The decision to let the Hahnemann Building as short-term office space will give us time for the local property market to pick up and the city’s hotel industry to level, before we start pushing ahead with our hotel plans.”

“We’re being deliberately prudent, given the current economic circumstances.”