The historic three-star Bredbury Hall Hotel and Country Club in Stockport has been bought out of administration. New owners are now planning a £1million refurbishment of all the bedrooms with the aim of making Bredbury Hall the flagship for a chain of UK hotels. New leisure and spa facilities are planned for next year.

Bredbury Hall Hotel and Country Club has 147 bedrooms, a restaurant, a bar, a nightclub and a conference centre. It is located in the Goyt Valley close to Manchester Airport and the local motorway links.

Details:   www.bredburyhall-hotel.com

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Published: 29 June 2015

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has transformed one of its spaces at RIBA Venues into a ‘Brutalist Playground’ as part of a unique installation exploring the abstract concrete playgrounds that were designed as part of post-war housing estates in the mid-20th century. All visitors and delegates at RIBA Venues are invited to explore it.

The exhibition is part sculpture and part architectural installation and designed for people of all ages to go and play, the Brutalist way. Occupying the entire Architecture Gallery, the immersive landscape is a new commission by Turner Prize nominated design and architecture collective Assemble and the artist Simon Terrill. It explores the abstract concrete playgrounds that were designed as part of post-war housing estates in the mid-twentieth century, but which no longer exist. They became playgrounds unsuitable for play.

The Brutalist Playground is accompanied by a public programme of talks, debates and film screenings as well as workshops and events. It runs until 16 August 2015. Details

RIBA headquarters are located at 66 Portland Place in the centre of London. Facilities for hire include a number of event spaces for conferences, meetings, dinners and receptions. RIBA has a 400 delegate tiered theatre as well as well as three open-air terraces with views across London.

Details: www.ribavenues.com

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Published: 26 June 2015

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Following extensive refurbishment the DoubleTree by Hilton London Docklands Riverside has opened in east London's Docklands area with 378 bedrooms. The hotel was formerly the Hilton London Docklands Riverside. It now joins ten other DoubleTree by Hilton properties in Greater London.

DoubleTree by Hilton London Docklands Riverside is located in a 17th century former wharf building at London’s last dry dock for shipbuilding. There is a complimentary ferry service across the River Thames to Canary Wharf on the opposite bank.

DoubleTree by Hilton London Docklands Riverside includes the main Columbia Restaurant with The Library and The Snug available for private dining.  The hotel includes 9,286 sq. ft. of event space with 15 individual meeting rooms. The London Suite is the largest accommodating up to 300 delegates theatre style. The Millennium Suite seating 150 theatre style opens to a terrace with views across London.

Details:   www.doubletree3.hilton.com

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Published: 29 June 2015

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Property developers, Allied London, have revealed plans for their new St John's Quarter in Manchester, the site of the former Granada Television Studios.

Plans include up to three hotels on the fifteen acre site plus a theatre and other performance venues and up to 2,500 new apartments fronting the River Irwell. The new St John's Quarter, as it will be known, will become a 'low-rise villages of small shops and creative businesses built along narrow streets’.

Allied London intend to submit a detailed planning application to Manchester City Council with the aim of starting work of the new St John's neighbourhood in mid-2016.

Details: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Published: 26 June 2015

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