A city centre hotel has been labelled Birmingham's ugliest building after plans to expand it came before the council.

Proposals to almost double the number of bedrooms at The Royal Angus, in St Chad's Queensway, were passed by Birmingham City Council's planning committee.

However, the building itself became the latest in a long line to be panned by the planning committee, with Coun Gareth Moore (Con Erdington) saying it was presently the city's most unsightly.

He said: "Following the demolition of Central Library, this has to be the ugliest building in Birmingham."

The comment came as plans were approved to take the hotel from 133 to 226 bedrooms by adding two storeys and also to carry out some general facelift work - which Coun Moore felt was long overdue.

Meanwhile, here we look back at other times Birmingham planners bared their teeth:

Fire station: Tombstone or turd?

The proposed new tower at the Central Fire Station in Birmingham was rejected by city council planning officers
The proposed new tower at the Central Fire Station in Birmingham was rejected by city council planning officers

Plans for a modern glass 23-storey skyscraper rising above Birmingham's historic former Central Fire Station were rejected by city councillors in 2012 - who compared it to both a tombstone and a turd.

John Clancy (Lab Quinton), who is now council leader but was then on the planning committee, added: "It's more a Yorkie Bar than a Toblerone."

"Abominable" Beorma Quarter proposals

A computer generated image of how the Beorma Quarter will look
A computer generated image of how the Beorma Quarter will look

In February 2009, Andy Foster, from the city's Conservation and Heritage Panel, slammed the £200 million Beorma Quarter plans as out of character, distressing and lacking in architectural merit.

"It's abominable. It's like a punch in the face by an architectural fist," he said.

UFO in Colmore Row

Historic Colmore Row
Historic Colmore Row

Plans to add two storeys to a historic city centre office block led to complaints it looked like a UFO had landed on top when they were submitted in 2011.

Developer Abstract Land wanted to add two storeys to the 18th century Grade II-listed building at 55 Colmore Row, once the HQ of law firm Wragge and Co, and a modern rooftop.

Coun Barry Henley (Lab Brandwood) said at the time: "This modern glass lump destroys the elegence of the façade and mocks other buildings in the conservation area."

The 'Lego set' library

CGI of the University of Birmingham's new library
CGI of the University of Birmingham's new library

Councillors criticised designs for the new University of Birmingham Library as like something from a Lego set.

Planning committee member Coun Peter Douglas Osborn (Con Weoley) added: "It is completely out of character, if you had to give it a name it would be Art Lego."

The ugly church

Glynn Edwards Hall, in Acocks Green
Glynn Edwards Hall, in Acocks Green

Revised plans to redevelop the historic Glynn Edwards Hall church were met with vehement opposition from conservation groups last year.

The Acocks Green Focus Group spokeswoman Julia Larden said: "The proposed new building is ugly."

The former 'ugliest building in Birmingham'

The seven-storey car park at Millennium Point
The seven-storey car park at Millennium Point

Council architects were sent back to the drawing board in 2009 after designs for a new multi-storey car park were slammed as the "ugliest building in Birmingham" by the city's own planning committee.

The £12million green-tinted, seven-storey car park, to be built next to Millennium Point, was described by planning committee members as "hideous", "brutalist", "scary" and something that had been "shelled in Beirut".

Selly Oak shanty town

Favela in Rio de Janeiro
Favela in Rio de Janeiro

Planning committee member Fiona Williams said part of Selly Oak would become "Britain's first favela" on the back of plans to covert family homes into large student flats.

Banners create ‘grotesque scar’

Methodist Central Hall in Corporation Street
Methodist Central Hall in Corporation Street

It's not always the planning department who get to be critical - sometimes they are on the end of criticism.

In 2009, proposals for a giant banner on the Grade II-listed Methodist Central Hall, in Corporation Street, were called "an ugly and a grotesque scar" by a tenant.