Hotel & Venue News

Signature Living, operators of the Shankly Hotel in Liverpool city centre, has resurrected plans to build a slide on the side of the Shankly Hotel.

The 100 foot-long slide would run from the roof terrace of the hotel down to the lobby area.

The hotel’s ‘Garden of Eden’ which will seat up to 250 guests for an event is located on the roof terrace of the Shankly Hotel. The slide would provide a relatively easy, if not entirely dignified entry to the hotel’s lobby area.

If planning permission is granted, the slide could help to raise cash for the city's homeless. Money raised from the slide will be given to The Whitechapel Centre, Signature Living’s new charity partner.

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

Details: Published: 14 June 2017; Hits: 671

Approval has been granted to build a new 306-bedroom luxury hotel in Liverpool's Baltic Triangle.

The new 15-storey Vincent Residence & Hotel will overlook Queen’s Dock in the centre of Liverpool and will include 10,000 sq-ft of basement events space plus a rooftop restaurant and lounge. It will feature a spa, gym and outdoor circuit training terrace.

The Vincent Residence & Hotel will also include 50 serviced apartments.

Construction work on the Vincent Residence & Hotel is expected to start in the autumn.

Vincent Residence & Hotel in Liverpool will join its sister hotel, the 4-star, 59-bedroom Vincent Hotel just up the coast in Southport.

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Crowne Plaza Leeds in the city centre has just completed a £4.5 million refurbishment. The programme started in February 2017 following flooding in the area.

Crowne Plaza Leeds has created an independent bar and restaurant, a function bar and revamped all 135 bedrooms.

The lobby, mezzanine plus the grand staircase have also been revamped.

£25,000 worth of new technology has been installed across the hotel's refurbished meeting rooms.

Crowne Plaza Leeds now features a Club-level lounge with complimentary drinks and canapes for the guests.

Crowne Plaza Leeds has seven meeting and events rooms in total, six with natural daylight. The Roundhay Suite is the largest seating up to 200 delegates theatre style.

Crowne Plaza Leeds also has a Spirit Health and Leisure Club with a gym and an indoor heated swimming pool.

Crowne Plaza Leeds is located in Wellington Street in the centre of Leeds, a ten minute walk from Leeds station. The hotel has secure parking for 120 cars.

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

Details: Published: 13 June 2017; Hits: 584

IHG hotel group has signed an agreement with developers of the new London Paramount theme park in Kent to operate a collection of hotels at the resort.

London Paramount is a proposed £3.2billion theme park and entertainment precinct on the Swanscombe Peninsula in Kent between Gravesend and Dartford. It will feature Europe's largest indoor water park, theatres, live music venues, attractions, cinemas, restaurants, events space and hotels.

It is estimated to open by around 2022.

IHG will operate up to 4,000 bedrooms across the London Paramount site. The hotels will be developed in phases under a range of brands including Crowne Plaza, Kimpton and Staybridge Suites.

The latest plans for the London Paramount project will go on public display in the autumn, before a development consent order is submitted to the Secretary of State.

IHG operate over 5,000 hotels worldwide under brands including Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, InterContinental, Staybridge Suites and Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants.

Details: http://www.londonparamount.info/

Details: Published: 13 June 2017; Hits: 568

Surrey County Cricket Club in London is planning to make their ground, the Kia Oval, the largest cricket stadium in the UK with a capacity of 40,000. The club aims to complete construction in time for the Ashes in 2023.

The centrepiece of the development will be a replacement for the Bedser Stand which could add up to 8,000 seats – as well as an enlargement of the existing OCS Stand.
The Kia Oval currently has a capacity of 25,500.

The Kia Oval also has a wide range of conference and events facilities including 19 individual suites that will accommodate up to a 1000 delegates in total.

These include the Corinthian Roof Terrace at the top of the OCS Stand with views over the ground as well as across to central London. This will accommodate up to 600 guests on an informal basis.

The main England Suite at Kia Oval will seat 650 delegates for a theatre style meeting.

Surrey CCC already has planning permission for a large development next to the Pavilion - 1 Oval Square - which will incorporate additional capacity and facilities.

Work could begin at the end of 2019, following on from the ICC Cricket World Cup.

Details: http://events.kiaoval.com/