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Mercure Leeds Centre opens September

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Indigo coming to Chester

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Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel

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Mercure Leeds Centre opens September
Indigo coming to Chester
Dalata plan new Manchester Hotel
Dalata plan new London Hotel
New Hotel opens in Glasgow

Epic Apart Hotel and Serviced Apartments in Liverpool has opened a new property in the city’s Ropewalks area with 17 apartments including some double rooms and pod rooms as well as two mezzanine studios apartments one of which features a courtyard garden. The property had been derelict for the last 31 years.

The Epic Apart Hotel is located in Duke Street and it joins the group’s other two properties: Epic Aparthotel in Seel Street and Epic Serviced Apartments in Campbell Street, both in central Liverpool.

The Duke Street property includes nine apartments, the largest sleeping up to six guests plus four double rooms and four 15sq-mt pod rooms.

The apartments have a fully equipped kitchen including oven, hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, toaster and kettle. All rooms have an en-suite bathroom or wet room, a 47” flat screen television and complimentary wi-fi.

Details: www.epicliverpool.co.uk

Details: Published: 16 July 2015; Hits: 948

Lane End Conference Centre in Buckinghamshire has opened the Cedar Club, a new, two-storey leisure facility. The ground floor level consists of a fully equipped gym, sauna and steam room with fully serviced changing facilities including complimentary toiletries and fresh towels. The gym includes equipment for cardiovascular and resistance training as well as free weight machines, dumbbells and a large area for stretching and warm-up exercises

There is a lounge and terrace upstairs, pool tables plus a virtual golf booth to practise driving, chipping and putting or to play 9 or 18 holes on one of 15 world-famous courses.

The leisure facilities in the Cedar Club are exclusively reserved residential guests at Lane End Conference Centre.

Lane End Conference Centre is set in 26 acres of woodland and comprises five individual self-contained buildings each with dedicated meeting facilities, accommodation, bar, lounge and dining facilities. Together there are a hundred en-suite rooms, eight main conference rooms and twenty-four meeting rooms.

Lane End Conference Centre is thirty miles from London and around thirty minutes from Heathrow airport.

Details: www.lane-end-conferences.co.uk

Details: Published: 15 July 2015; Hits: 1186

Hotel developer, Dominvs Group, is planning a new 150-bedroom in central Oxford along with a microbrewery, restaurant and deli. A new Hotel Indigo is thought to be the branding although this is still to be confirmed.

The site, on the corner of Paradise Street and St Thomas' Street, is the former Cooper Callas building, which has been unused for several years. This would be demolished with the hotel taking its place. Part of the site was formerly the Brewery Gatepub associated with the old Morrell's Brewery.

A planning application is expected in either September or October 2015.

Whilst Hotel Indigo is a brand from the IHG group, each Indigo Hotel has an individual character reflecting its location and local associations. This is reflected in the menus as well as artwork and photographs displayed on the walls.

Details: dominvsgroup.com

Details: Published: 15 July 2015; Hits: 1057

The LifeCentre is a little known venue in South Manchester seeking to raise its profile. LifeCentre operates as a not-for-profit social enterprise and community hub with meeting facilities.

The building opened in February 2013 and includes ten modern meeting rooms over three floors accommodating from three to three hundred delegates. The two largest rooms which can be combined - the Wesley and the Liddell - are both on the first floor and will accommodate up to 350 and 120 delegates respectively. Four smaller meeting rooms and interview rooms are on the ground floor with a further two room on the second floor.

The LifeCentre is equipped with the latest AV technology including an integrated digital PA system with free wi-fi throughout.

Cafe56 is the onsite catering operation for refreshments plus hot and cold buffets.

The LifeCentre is located on the A56 in Sale between central Manchester and Altrincham and close to the M60. It is seven miles from the centre of Manchester. Brooklands is the nearest Metrolink station, around a 12 minute walk away. There is free parking on site.

Details: www.lifecentremcr.com

Details: Published: 15 July 2015; Hits: 1081

Cheshire East Council has approved plans to convert the historic Doddington Hall near Nantwich in Cheshire into a 120-bedroom country house hotel.

Doddington Hall and its Grade II-listed stables will include hotel bedrooms, a restaurant and bar as well as event space. A new-build extension will house additional bedrooms and a spa facility.

Doddington Hall sits within 800-acres of parkland. It was designed by Samuel Wyatt and built in 1780. The mansion is privately owned and was used as a ladies college until 1985.

The planning approval also included the refurbishment and conversion of the 13th-century Delves Castle and the Grade II-listed Star Barn near to the Hall, with the use of the buildings to be defined at a later date.

Doddington Hall is located off the A51 between Nantwich and Woore.

Details: www.thedoddingtonestate.co.uk