the controversial Palace Suites off the sand dunes and to add a block of 22 new suites.

The hotel's revised plans, which were submitted last week to the Planning Department, include a "river-pool'' waterway that will meander and "cascade'' through the property.

The plans also show the hotel planning to build four new tennis courts on old Fritholme Estate land just east of the hotel, three new restaurants, a European health spa around the hotel pool, and a small tennis stadium behind the Palace Suites.

No change has been made to plans for the seven storey hotel wing and conference centre and 39 condominiums on the Fritholme property.

But a letter from hotel architects Cooper & Gardner indicates that changes to modify them are in the works.

Architect Mr. Michael Phillips said any change to the hotel wing and condominium plan "will address substantially the objections and concerns'' raised by critics.

"Such design revisions will be based upon the results of `market research' which has been commissioned but at this time has not been completed,'' he wrote in a letter to the Planning Department.

Possible revisions could prevent the planned bulldozing of the historical Sandicote cottage on the old Fritholme Estate.

The hotel's original expansion plan met with a storm of protest from nearby Paget residents and businesses to the Bermuda National Trust.

In particular, they said the development was too intense for the 49.6-acre site. They criticised the planned hotel wing as too tall, the condominiums as too many and the height and beach dune location of the Palace Suites as "far outside the Bermuda image''.

The changes were made following top-level meetings in August between Planning officers, the architects, and local director of the project Mr. John Jefferis.

Also at meetings were top officers of owner Marcor Realty, including its principal shareholder His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia.

The 22 new suites would be built in a block descending the slope of the grounds from below the hotel pool. The split-level block would be one and two storeys high. The block would require the demolition of one existing cottage.

If approved, the 22-unit block would give the Elbow Beach Hotel a total of 447 rooms and suites. The hotel currently has 300 rooms.

One source close to the project said the revised plan would reduce the height of the Palace Suites and move them 86 feet back from the dunes.

The "championship stadium tennis court and spectator stands'' are to be cut into existing landscape so the bleachers don't project above it.