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New hotel planned in Maidstone
A new hotel is coming to Maidstone. Plans have just been approved to convert the former Mothercare store in the centre of Maidstone in Kent into a 132– bedroom hotel.
Plans for the new hotel include a lobby, café area and restaurant alongside the reception. The hotel will also feature a public rooftop bar with views overlooking the Kent hills.
The hotel will comprise three storeys facing Maidstone’s main pedestrianised shopping area with a nine-storey element sited just behind.
Proposed opening dates and details of the hotel operator await publication.
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New hotel proposed in Plymouth
Plans have been published to build a new hotel plus residential units on a patch of derelict land in Plymouth city centre.
The site, once home to an ITV television studio, could house a new ten-storey, 150-bedroom hotel plus apartments.
The proposed site is the between Millbay Road and Derrys Cross roundabout in the centre of Plymouth.
An outline planning application for the development is proposed.
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Plans approved for new venue in Kent
Plans have been approved by Ashford Borough Council to transform the former Newtown Railway Works in Kent into ‘Ashford International Studios’. The project will create the UK’s largest new creative industries cluster.
Abandoned in the 1980s, Newtown Railway Works is a Grade II-listed building. It will be converted into 240,000 square feet of dedicated TV & film production space and will include a media village, an educational centre and a new hotel.
Construction work to transform the 15-acre site at Newtown Works is set to start straight away with an opening scheduled for 2022.
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Plans in for new Gateshead Arena
A full planning application has been submitted for a new arena, conference and exhibition centre on Gateshead Quays. The 80,000 sq-ft scheme is planned on a site in front of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
The £260million development includes a 12,500-capacity arena, conference and exhibition space, two hotels, bars, restaurants and car parking. The 10-acre site is located between the Sage Gateshead and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Developers are hoping to receive full planning consent later this year with the new arena set to open in 2023.
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Curzon Street Station approved
Whilst the new HS2 high speed rail link between London and Birmingham will have no immediate impact on the conference and meetings market, in years to come it probably will. Hence, we feature the good news that City of Birmingham’s planning committee has given the go-ahead for the Curzon Street Station project.
Curzon Street, in the centre of Birmingham, is the first HS2 station to secure planning consent. The first phase of the high-speed rail line will have four stations at Euston and Old Oak Common in London, Birmingham Interchange near Birmingham Airport and at Curzon Street in central Birmingham.
The second phase of HS2 rail link will run north from Birmingham and have stations in the North West, East Midlands and Yorkshire.
Curzon Street station will have seven platforms and a main entrance including a wall of glass up to 55 feet in height. The cost of the project is currently estimated at almost £600million. When the rail link is complete it will cut the current journey time between London and Birmingham from 1 hour 20 minutes to just 49 minutes.
No definite time scale has been published yet for its construction and opening.
When it does open we will be waiting at the end of the platform to show you around the wide variety of residential and non-residential events venues all within a stone’s throw of Curzon Street Station.
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New Hotel approved in Glasgow
Plans for a new hotel in Glasgow have been approved.
The new hotel will be a 16-storey building with 252 bedrooms on a site next to the St Columba Gaelic church on the corner of St Vincent Street and Pitt Street in central Glasgow. The hotel will replace two adjoining office blocks which were built in the mid-1980s.
The new hotel will be the first UK hotel for Austrian operator - Vienna House. It will include a restaurant and bar plus conference facilities.
Work is scheduled to start on site this autumn - coronavirus permitting - with the hotel’s opening scheduled for 2023.
Vienna House is a well-established hotel company if not well known in the UK. The group operate some 50 hotels in eight countries throughout Europe and Asia.