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The Food Works opens in Weston-super-Mare
The Food Works is a new innovation centre for food and drink manufacturers which has just opened in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset.
The Food Works has been developed to help local producers to collaborate, innovate, identify new markets and create jobs within the sector. To this end The Food Works has 12 business units and development kitchens, three meeting and conference rooms accommodating between 10 and 16 delegates each, a video conferencing room plus a cafe and business lounge.
The Food Works also offers companies hands-on food technical and business support and access to sector-based training.
The Food Works is located on the Junction 21 Enterprise Zone in Weston-super-Mare.
Junction21 Enterprise is a 72-hectare development designed to attract and develop new business opportunities in the West of England. It is located alongside the M5 at junction 21, 20 minutes south of Bristol and in close proximity to a deep-water port and an International Airport.
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New Hotel planned in Birmingham’s Digbeth
Plans have just been submitted to Birmingham City Council for an exciting major new mixed-use scheme on a five-acre site in Digbeth close to the city centre. The scheme will include a 133-bedroom hotel at the heart of a new cultural, commercial and residential neighbourhood.
The hotel will occupy a key location overlooking a proposed Skypark on Duddeston Viaduct and a new public park. It will form part of a major new £260 million regeneration scheme in Birmingham city centre.
A planning decision is expected by the autumn. If approved the developer is hoping to start work early next year.
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Summer start anticipated on new Leonardo Hotel in Manchester
Construction is expected to start on site this summer on the new Leonardo-branded hotel in the centre of Manchester.
Leonardo Hotel will be a14-storey hotel, on the corner of Adair Street and Great Ancoats Street close to Manchester Piccadilly station.
Leonardo Hotel will have 275 bedrooms, a ground-floor restaurant, bar and outdoor terrace area that will overlook a new public square, to be constructed as part of the development.
Leonardo Hotel will be an anchor development in the Piccadilly East neighbourhood. The building will feature planters adorning the side of the Jenga-inspired design of the hotel providing a striking canopy of greenery on Manchester’s skyline.
An early 2022 completion is anticipated – ‘coronavirus permitting’.
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Plans for a new hotel approved in Swansea
Plans for a new hotel in Swansea have just been approved. The project will see the transformation of a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse on Swansea's Maritime Square into the Georgian Swansea Hotel.
The new hotel will sit in Swansea’s Maritime Conservation Area.
The Georgian townhouse, in Prospect Place, is part of a historic terrace in Swansea and is amongst the oldest properties in the city.
The ground floor of the townhouse is currently in use as a restaurant and bar. Rooms on the first, second and third floors which are in residential use, will be converted into stylish new hotel bedrooms featuring Georgian fireplaces, double showers, a roll-top bath and views across to Swansea Museum. The new hotel will also feature function space.
A 2020 opening date is anticipated for The Georgian Swansea Hotel.
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New aparthotel and boutique hostel planned in Birmingham
Plans have been published to convert a vacant office block in the centre of Birmingham into an aparthotel and a boutique hostel.
St James' House is an eight-storey building in Horse Fair. The O2 Academy sits on the ground floor but the office space above has been vacant since 2003.
Plans would see an additional four storeys added to the building. Levels three to six would be the hostel, with the aparthotel located on levels seven through to 11. The plans would create 94 aparthotel rooms and 64 hostel rooms.
St James’s House is a short walk from Birmingham New Street Station.
Plans await the go-ahead from Birmingham City Council.
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Hotel planned in new Stafford development
A new hotel could be coming to Stafford. Plans are in hand to redevelop the former Stafford Rugby Club ground into a £80million mixed-use development.
Plans for the 6.5 acre site include a supermarket, hotel, multi-storey car park and residential properties.
The site, located in the Castlefields area, is part of the Stafford Station Gateway - close to Stafford town centre and Stafford station.
The plan complements Stafford Borough Council’s Regeneration Plan intended to maximise the benefits to the town of the proposed HS2 high-speed rail link through Stafford. HS2 promises to reduce the rail journey to London to less than an hour.