The Ivanhoe Hotel: Historic Manly pub pushes to build more apartments on The Corso

The pub tycoon who bought The Ivanhoe Hotel for $60m has plans to add more apartments to his property on The Corso.

An artist's impression of the proposed redevelopment of property owned by The Ivanhoe Hotel that will see more apartments on The Corso at Manly. Picture: Durban Block Jaggers

One of Manly’s iconic pubs wants to add swish apartments to property it owns on The Corso.

The Ivanhoe Hotel has applied for planning permission to demolish part of a building it owns that adjoins the pub.

As part of the proposed work, 10 existing units in an existing 100-year-old four-storey shop-top apartment block, just west of the Ivanhoe’s front entrance, would be reconfigured and altered to create 12 apartments.

The Ivanhoe Hotel. It was bought by pub tycoon Sam Arnaout in 2021 for $60m. Picture: Julie Cross

Permission has already been given for a new facade on a two-storey commercial building, wedged between the pub, and the apartment block.

The pub’s bottle shop will also see some changes and the facade of the rear of the buildings, facing Market Lane, will be improved.

Pub baron Sam Arnaout outside Hotel Steyne in Manly. Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Balconies, or “winter gardens”, some fronting Market Lane, will be added to the proposed apartments. There will also be a communal rooftop deck on the apartment block that was built in 1922.

The $7.2 million development application comes less than three months after the pub’s owner, Sydney property tycoon Sam Arnaout, won a Land and Environment Court battle to add another $16 million apartment block to his other high profile pub in Manly — Hotel Steyne.

Mr Arnaout bought the Ivanhoe in early 2021 for $60 million. It had been owned by the Peterson family for the previous 36 years.

An artist's impression of new apartments renovations on the Market Lane side of the building. Picture: Durban Block Jaggers

Now his company has lodged the new Ivanhoe DA with Northern Beaches Council.

But the application will be looked at by the independent Northern Beaches Local Planning Panel next Wednesday because it contravenes a height development standard under environmental planning rules.

The council has recommended to the panel that the DA be approved because the proposed redevelopment will be the same height as other buildings on The Corso.