Hotel & Venue News

Proposals to create a £20.5million heritage exhibition and visitor centre at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire have been approved by Cheshire East Council’s strategic planning board.

The centre will tell the story of how a rural site in Cheshire became the home of radio astronomy.

The scheme – the First Light Project - will features a new earth dome-shaped building providing exhibition space, an auditorium, an outdoor café area, an office, education space and toilets.

The building, which will be 79 metres wide at the base and eight metres high, will incorporate paths on the roof so that visitors can walk to the top where they will find a sundial on a flat platform.

The First Light Project will complement Jodrell Bank's existing visitor facilities. The First Light Project will feature two principal function areas:

Planet Pavilion will include a restaurant and café plus exhibition facilities.

Space Pavilion will feature events space as well as exhibition space.

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre is part of Manchester University. It is located just off the A535 between Chelford and Holmes Chapel – six miles from Junction 18 of the M6.

http://www.jodrellbank.net/4m-first-light-project/

Details: Published: 22 December 2017; Hits: 762

Construction work will begin on the new five-star Sands Hotel in Blackpool in January 2018. Sands Hotel with 96 bedrooms will be built above the current Sands Venue site.

Construction is expected to be complete by spring 2019.

Sands Hotel will feature some of the largest standard rooms in the resort at 29 – 32 sq-mt and suites from 42 sq-mt - 72 sq-mt with further suites in excess of 72 sq-mt with sea views. The reception will be designed around a 1920’s/1930’s theme.

Sands Venue will be closed and not re-open until the hotel is finished.

When Sands Venue reopens it will be a ‘one onsite entertainment centre’ with the hotel, restaurant, bistro, ground floor bar and restaurant and expansion of the Wild West Diner - all available to the general public.

Along with these facilities there will be a spa, barbers, hairdressers, nail salon and hotel shop.

Sands Venue will also house a new ‘Amuseum’ planned to open in Blackpool. Amuseum will occupy the first floor of the building with its own ground floor entrance located on Bank Hey Street. The museum is expected to be themed around the history of entertainment.

The Sands Venue is being built on the site of the former Palatine Hotel which together with other buildings on the site, including Central Station, were demolished in the 1970s during a period of large-scale redevelopment in Blackpool.

The project is the brainchild of businessman Peter Swann, who owns the company that operates Sands Entertainment Venue and who is also chairman of League One football club - Scunthorpe United FC.

Details: https://www.the-sands-blackpool.co.uk/news/multi-million-pound-5-star-blackpool-seafront-hotel-plans-unveiled

Details: Published: 22 December 2017; Hits: 746

Plans have been submitted to build two new hotels at Manchester Airport.

The hotels would be located on a three-acre site next to the rail station at Manchester Airport and near the M56 motorway spur.

The site is currently being used as a car park.

The project would create a nine-storey, 375-bedroom 4 -star hotel alongside a nine-storey, 254-bedroom 3-star hotel.

The largest hotel would be a Hilton Garden Inn and would also feature a skybar. The second hotel is expected to be a Hampton by Hilton Hotel.

Completion date for the project is scheduled for early spring 2019.

The development would increase the capacity of hotel rooms near Manchester Airport which is planned to grow to 45 million passengers a year by 2030. The hotels would also support the new Airport City North development.

Manchester City Council has set no date as yet to consider the proposals.

Details: https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/northwest/plans-lodged-for-two-new-airport-hotels

Details: Published: 21 December 2017; Hits: 752

Rosewood Hotel has just launched a new hotel branding: ‘Khos Hotels’.

The name Khos is derived from the Mongolian word for ‘pair’.

The hotel chain is to be developed in capital cities and up-and-coming business centres.

Khos Hotels will be designed to attract the modern business traveller.

Khos Hotels will be inspired by “the energy, art, innovation, creativity, style and dynamism of modern-day Asia”.

Khos Hotels will feature ‘reimagined meeting rooms and event spaces designed for greater flexibility and sociability facilitating personal interaction’.

The first Khos hotels are expected to open in 2018. Location details await publication.

Details: https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/default

Details: Published: 21 December 2017; Hits: 776

A Grade II-listed former Victorian water pumping station in Nottingham is currently being converted into a luxury venue.

Completion of part one of the multimillion-pound refurbishment project is expected in Spring 2018. The pumping station will then re-emerge as: The Lakeside.

Phase one at The Lakeside will include an 80-seater restaurant featuring alfresco lakeside dining plus a champagne and cocktail bar.

The Lakeside is located in Arnold a suburb of Nottingham to the north-east of the city and just off the A60.

Details: https://www.lakesidetower.co.uk/