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New Hotel to open in Chelsea
Beaverbrook Hotel in partnership with the Cadogan Estate is set to launch its first London property in Chelsea in summer 2021.
The Beaverbrook Town House has been created from two Georgian townhouses in Sloane Street following completion of an extensive £25million restoration programme. Beaverbrook Town House will sit opposite Cadogan Place Gardens in Chelsea.
Beaverbrook Town House will feature 14 luxury suites plus a 60-cover Japanese restaurant.
The hotel will serve as an outpost of The Beaverbrook, a luxury country house hotel and golf club which opened in 2017 in Leatherhead, Surrey.
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It’s all about to happen in Leicester
Not one but two new hotels are coming to Leicester now plans have been approved for both projects in the city.
Firstly, plans to transform a former police station in Leicester, which dates back to the turn of the 19th century, into a hotel have been approved. The building is located at the corner of Holden Street and Loughborough Road in the Belgrave area.
Further details of the hotel and its capacities await publication.
Meanwhile, the site of the vegetarian restaurant Indigo in Melton Road, Leicester is set to be developed into a 125-bedroom hotel with a restaurant plus banqueting and events facilities.
Plans would see the restaurant demolished and replaced with a new five-storey building.
Both hotel projects have been given the go-ahead by Leicester’s city planners.
Further details of both projects to follow in due course.
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New Hotel plans approved in York
Planning permission has been granted for a new hotel in York.
Dominvs Group are planning to convert Swinson House, a former tax office in Piccadilly into a new 132-bedroom hotel. Plans would see the demolition of the existing building to be replaced with a part-four and part-six storey building.
The new hotel will also include a ground floor restaurant and bar.
Swinson House dates from 1938.
Further details to follow.
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Charlecote Pheasant reopens
The Charlecote Pheasant hotel in Warwickshire has just reopened under new ownership. It is now a member of the Vine Hotels portfolio.
Charlecote Pheasant is housed in what was originally a farm building dating back to the 16th century. Despite extensive modernisation, the hotel has managed to retain the building’s original beams and exposed brickwork.
Charlecote Pheasant has 70 bedrooms, a restaurant and bar plus six meeting rooms, all with natural daylight and accommodating from 6 to 160 delegates.
The main Hampton Suite at Charlecote Pheasant was originally the farm’s hayloft. It is separate from the main hotel building and accommodates up to 160 delegates with its own reception space and bar. The hotel’s grounds are also available for on-site team building and outdoor meetings.
Charlecote Pheasant is located in the Warwickshire village of Charlecote, close to Stratford-Upon-Avon, four miles from the M40 and 18 miles from Birmingham International Airport.
Charlecote Pheasant joins other members in the Vine Hotels group which also includes Doubletree by Hilton Sheffield Park Hotel, Best Western Cresta Court, Mercure Southampton City Centre Dolphin Hotel and Best Western Plus Mosborough Hall.
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The Elms reopens
The Elms Hotel and Greenhouse Spa at Abberley, in Worcestershire, has reopened following a 12-month-long, multi-million-pound total refurbishment.
The Elms Hotel building dates back to the early eighteenth century and many of its fine original architectural features have been retained and enhanced.
The new-look Elms Hotel has 24 bedrooms, a two AA rosette restaurant and bar plus meeting and events facilities. Leisure facilities include the spa, complete with swimming pool, sauna, and treatment rooms.
The Elms Hotel also has ten acres of outdoor space.
The Elms Hotel is set in the Worcestershire countryside, near Abberley and Kidderminster with good access to the M5 motorway.
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New Events Centre opening in London next spring
Woolwich Works is a new restoration project currently underway at former industrial buildings in Woolwich, East London. It will open as a new ‘cultural quarter’ in Spring 2021.
A £31.6million restoration programme will see five historic buildings on the Royal Arsenal site converted into multi-use spaces for concerts, exhibitions, conferences and events.
Woolwich Works will include a performance venue for up to 1200 delegates, a performance courtyard seating up to 600 and 10 studios plus a café, bar and community spaces for conferences and other events.
Woolwich Works is located on the banks of the River Thames in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.