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Woolwich Works set to open Spring 2021
Woolwich Works is a new ‘cultural quarter’ set to open in Woolwich, in East London in Spring 2021.
Woolwich Works will result from a major restoration project of five industrial buildings: a range of Grade II and II* listed buildings comprising the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.
Woolwich Works will include multi-use spaces for concerts, exhibitions, conferences and events with many of the building’s historic features retained and enhanced.
Woolwich Works will feature a performance venue to seat up to 1200 people, five studios as well as a café, bar and community spaces for conferences and other events.
Woolwich Works is located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Its riverside location will be served by Woolwich Arsenal pier. The new Woolwich Crossrail station will be within a five minute walk, with the DLR providing good access to London City Airport.
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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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Selina open a third UK Hotel
Selina, a Latin-American lifestyle hotel brand, has opened its third property in the UK on Brighton’s seafront.
Selina Brighton has 31 bedrooms including suites, family rooms for up to four guests plus standard and micro-sized double rooms. A further 19 bedrooms including community rooms for up to six guests is expected to open in 2021.
Selina Brighton features a lobby area cum social space with a grab-and-go coffee shop a sea-view restaurant and bar, co-working space and a ‘late-night venue’.
Selina Brighton is located on the town’s promenade, a short walk from the British Airways i360 Viewing Tower, The Royal Pavilion and Brighton Palace Pier.
Selina Brighton joins two other UK properties: in Birmingham’s Jewelry Quarter and in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. A fourth hotel is set to open next year in Camden, central London.
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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.