Plans made for restaurant that hangs in the sky

A Japanese restaurant wants to expand its venue with a futuristic design that will see a second restaurant stretched precariously above its current premises and into the sky.

The unique design comes from the Moshimo restaurant in Bartholemew Square, Brighton, which has submitted a planning application to build a modern modern skyline restaurant on top of its current eatery.

The development will cost around £4 million and will be able to seat up to 130 people at a time. If the plans are approved by Brighton and Hove City Council, the structure would be built in Littlehampton and craned into the city by a £1m crane.

This is the second proposal put forward by owners Karl Jones and Nicholas Rohl, with previous incarnation of their vision, dubbed a “lantern in the sky”, rejected by the council.

The pair hope that this time around their plans for a five-storey restaurant expansion could be completed within a year, with the restaurant opening its doors in Spring 2018.

If approved, the new space would open as an independent restaurant to its current Moshimo, with the venue holding the potential to be used as a city skyline wedding venue.