Plans for a new boutique hotel have been unveiled in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter.

The hotel together with new apartments, a retail courtyard as well as new workshop spaces intended for jewellery design and manufacture comprise the ‘Hockley Mills’ project.

The brown-field site is currently occupied by a single tyre storage facility.

Other features of the Hockley Mills project include a new ticket office for the Jewellery Quarter station and the potential for the reuse of the Victorian subway as a gym or for other commercial uses.

The scheme has recently been submitted to Birmingham City Council’s planning department for approval.

Details: https://www.glancynicholls.com/hockley-mills-submitted-planning/

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Published: 07 July 2017

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Talash Hotels Group has acquired the Mercure Wigan Oak which now joins a group of 11 individual hotels in the UK.

Mercure Wigan Oak has 88 bedrooms, eight meeting rooms, a restaurant and a bar.

Talash plan to invest in the hotel, particularly its conference and banqueting facilities.

Mercure Wigan Oak is located in the centre of Wigan around a mile from Wigan North West station.

In the North West, Talash also own the Chimney House Hotel in Sandbach and the Mercure Chester Abbots Well.

Details: http://www.talashhotels.com/

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Amber Lakes is a new venue set in a 450 acre private reserve with 120 acres of lakes, a pier and a jetty located just outside Windsor and 45 minutes from central London.

Events are hosted in the Lodge – a large indoor open space with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out over the surrounding waters and greenery.

The Lodge lends itself to smaller conferences and meetings. Depending on layout the Lodge will accommodate between 40 to 120 delegates with plenty of options for breakouts and outside space for smaller meetings.

In the summer the wraparound terraces outside the Lodge become additional breakout zones and the lawns can be used for lunches.

The lakes are suited to various team-building activities from dragon-boat racing to fishing, golfing and archery.

Amber Lakes is located in Wraysbury, ten minutes from London Heathrow Airport and a five minute drive from either Sunnymeads or Wraysbury stations.

Details: http://www.amberlakes.co.uk/

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The Palace Hotel in Torquay is set to close at the end of July for an unspecified period whilst the hotel’s new owners undertake a "significant redevelopment".

The 141-bedroom Palace Hotel is the largest hotel in Torquay. Features include a restaurant, three lounges and indoor and outdoor leisure facilities including tennis and squash courts, swimming pools, a fitness suite and a nine-hole golf course

The hotel is now owned by the Singapore-based Fragrance Group.

Details: http://www.palacetorquay.com/

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Published: 06 July 2017

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