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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

Bespoke Hotels have taken over the management of La Suite West hotel in London. La Suite West was created by British designer Anouska Hempel, famed for landscape design and high fashion who designed and managed several luxury boutique hotels. La Suite West is a Victorian townhouse bordering London's Hyde Park.
La Suite West has 80 bedrooms and suites furnished with individually-crafted, four-poster beds and black rubber chairs set off by whitewashed rooms and marble bathrooms. ‘RAW' restaurant is contemporary with healthy offerings, alcohol-free 'mocktails' and a vegan menu for lunch and dinner. The hotel returns to traditional values in the morning with a 'full English' on the breakfast menu. La Suite West has its own landscaped private terrace for al fresco eating and drinking.
La Suite West is located in Inverness Terrace within walking distance of Notting Hill and Marble Arch and with easy access to Paddington Station.

Details: www.bespokehotels.com

Details: Published: 26 June 2014; Hits: 1163

The National Theatre’s Temporary Theatre in London will be available for a limited five month period as ‘pop- up’ event space. Corporate event bookings are being taken at the venue for events between 15 September 2014 and 28 February 2015.
The Temporary Theatre located on London’s South Bank features a striking rough red painted timber cladding. Stripped back internally to steel and plywood, the theatre offers a quirky venue in which to host a product launch, a conference, a drinks receptions or a seated dinner. The theatre will accommodate up to 70 guests for a dinner, up to 185 delegates for a conference and a maximum of 200 for standing reception.
The Temporary Theatre opened in April 2013 to provide a third home for the National Theatre during the Cottesloe Theatre’s closure for redevelopment and its reopening as the Dorfman Theatre. It is scheduled for a re-launch in spring 2015 for its extended life until March 2017.

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The Northern Counties building in Derry / Londonderry is going to be converted into a boutique hotel and restaurant thanks to a grant from the Inner City Building Preservation Trust (ICBT). The Northern Counties building in Bishop Street and currently vacant, is Grade B1 listed and was built in 1899. It is a well-known landmark in the city centre. For many years it was a private members’ club, and a base for the city’s business and civic leaders.
The Northern Counties building is the first project in the UK to secure a confirmed grant from the new Heritage Lottery Fund programme which has been designed to stimulate local economic growth by unlocking the commercial potential of unused historic buildings and sites.

Details: www.ihbconline.co.uk

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The Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa project in Derbyshire has been on the back-boiler for some time but development on site is now expected to start in October 2014.
Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa will include 79 luxury bedrooms. The spa will feature thermal and wet treatment areas such as a sauna, saunarium, infrared sauna, ice room, aroma room, steamroom and a salt grotto. The two existing basement pools – one for men and one for women – will both be refurbished.
Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa is expected to open at some point in 2016.

Danubius Hotels, who operate a chain of hotels and health resorts in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as the Danubius Hotel in central London, will operate the new spa.

Details: www.buxtoncrescent.co.uk

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Accor Hotels has confirmed that it will be opening a Pullman-branded hotel alongside the new Exhibition Centre Liverpool which itself will be integrated with the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) Liverpool. It will be the second Pullman Hotel to open in the UK. The first was Pullman London St Pancras.

Pullman Liverpool will have 216 bedrooms over seven storeys above a ground floor reception and lobby. It will include restaurants, bars, meeting rooms and a gym. Construction on both the hotel and exhibition centre will begin in late autumn 2014 following approval by the Liverpool's planning committee. Completion is expected summer 2015.
The complex is located in the former Kings Dock within walking distance of the main transport hub of central Liverpool

Details: www.exhibitioncentreliverpool.com