Shakespeare North Playhouse will be located in Kirkby town centre on the outskirts of Liverpool.

Plans for the building include a 30,000 sq-ft Jacobean court-style theatre seating up to 350 people with education facilities, a performance studio plus a dedicated Exhibition and Education Centre.

The main contractor is due to be appointed in December 2017, with pre-construction work starting from February 2018. All construction expected to be completed by April 2020.

The boutique hotel will be Shakespearean-themed and will be located in Prescot town centre. The 27-bedroom hotel over five floors will include a restaurant, a bar, meeting and events rooms and a car park.

Construction work is expected to start in March 2018 with the hotel opening in late 2018.

Details: http://www.shakespearenorth.org/

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Published: 13 November 2017

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The group is targeting its expansion programme on the London market as well as the major UK cities. 

Fiveways Hospitality, manages the Park Regis Hotel in Birmingham as well as the Nitenite hotel in Birmingham.

Nitenite is a purpose-designed and built pod hotel which opened in the Mailbox Centre in the  centre of Birmingham in 2006.

Fiveways Hospitality is planning to target disused inner city retail space, redundant office space, basement car parks for their new generation Nitenite hotels.

Whilst Nitenite bedrooms are windowless and small - around seven sq-mt for a double room, which is roughly the size of a parking space - they are designed to a hi-tech specification.

Targeted cities for new Nitenite hotels include Manchester, Bristol, Leeds, Nottingham and Oxford.

Details: https://nitenite.com/

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Monkey Island is a seven-acre island in the middle of the River Thames at Bray-on-Thames in Berkshire; an island which is only accessible via a small footbridge or by boat.

The new-look hotel will include 27 bedrooms and three suites plus a signature restaurant, bar and lounge. A hotel spa will be located in a converted Dutch Barge alongside in the river.

Events facilities will be available for between 10 and 130 delegates. The Pavilion Room will be the largest space seating up to 130 delegates with views across the River Thames and with access to an outside terrace.

The smaller River Room will seat up to 80 delegates and will subdivide into two rooms. It will also have access to its own outside terrace.

There will be two boardrooms on the first floor of the Monkey Island hotel seating up to 14 and 20 delegates respectively.

The name ‘Monkey Island’ derives from the monks who lived on the island until the 16th century.  ‘Grotesque’ monkey paintings were then added to the pavilion whilst the island was under the ownership of the 3rd Duke of Marlborough in the 18th century. The Monkey Island name has survived ever since.

Monkey Island had been operating as a hotel since the middle of the nineteenth century.

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The aparthotel would have 224 bedrooms with a reception, a café, an exercise room and a guest laundry on the ground floor with the bedrooms on the upper eight floors.

The site, currently a surface car park, is bounded by Mason Street, Cable Street and Cross Keys Street in Manchester. The site lies next to the proposed AC Hotel by Marriott, which is currently under construction.

If plans are approved, it will be StayCity’s fourth aparthotel in Manchester. The group has one at Gateway House on the Piccadilly station approach, a second in Laystall Street in Ancoats. A third is planned in St Peter’s Square.

Details: https://www.staycity.com/

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Published: 10 November 2017

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