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Former Royal Marines museum hotel plan approved

Toby Paine
Local Democracy Reporting Service
Grand Hotel Excelsior International Limited A CGI image of what the new hotel will look like, with polish stone.Grand Hotel Excelsior International Limited
The museum building was bought by the hotel company for £4.5m in 2020

A plan to convert Southsea's former Royal Marines Museum into a 96-bedroom luxury hotel has been approved.

The hotel will be operated by the Grand Hotel Excelsior International Limited and the Grade II listed building's exterior will be left untouched.

Other buildings will be used for a gym, treatment rooms and a swimming pool after Portsmouth City Council approved the project on Wednesday.

The museum building is about 150 years old but the former museum at Eastney Barracks was closed in 2017 after its "irreversible deterioration".

The site was sold to the hotel company in 2020 for £4.5m, when it was announced the Yomper, the statue of a Royal Marine in the Falklands War, will remain in its place.

A new Royal Marines Museum is planned for the Grade II listed Boathouse 6 building at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

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