‘Literary’ plan gets backing

Plans to look at how to breathe new life into the area around the Central Library have been backed by councillors.

The city council last week unveiled radical plans for a hotel, shops, restaurants, new public squares and a completely revamped Central Library building as part of a vision to create a new “literary quarter”.

Councillors have approved part of the plan, which will see the council develop a new joint venture with Royal Bank of Scotland, which owns the adjacent India Buildings at the top of Victoria Street, to take the development forward.