NEWSFLASH 11th January 2016
There will not be a Newsflash next week 18th Jan but a bumper edition 25th Jan.
Mace and Bouygues are in the race to build a 562,000 sq ft mixed-use development in the City of London in
a deal understood to be worth £300m. The two contractors are battling it out for the job, which is being developed by
Singapore-based company UOL Group. Known as Heron Plaza, the 43-storey development will include a luxury hotel, residential
units and retail space. PLP Architecture attained planning for the project in 2011.
LONDON £12.6M
15 Bishopsgate
Planning authority: City Of London Job: Detail Plans Granted for 6 office/shop/financial services/restaurant/cafe/pub units
Client: Tower 42 Holdings Ltd Developer: Stiff & Trevillion Architects, 16 Woodfield Road, London, W9 2BE Tel: 0208 960 5550
Graham Construction has won the job to build a space
technology centre named after particle scientist Peter
Higgs in Edinburgh.
New centre for space and big data named after the 'God particle'
discoverer
The Government-funded Higgs Centre for Innovation will be built at
the city’s Royal Observatory site.
In partnership with the University of Edinburgh, the new centre will
focus on space and big data technologies.
Graham won the job with a £6.4m bid. The total scheme is expected
to cost around £12m allowing for fit-out with research equipment.
Consultant CPC is providing project and cost management
consultancy.
A 65-acre business park is to be built on an industrial site in north Bristol after the location, once home to a
giant of engineering, was acquired by two developers. St Francis Group and Marcol Industrial have teamed up and
bought the former Rolls-Royce East Works site in Filton. At the same time a deal has been agreed with BP Pension Fund that
commits all parties to the development of nearly 600,000 sq ft of speculative warehouse and industrial space.
To be known as Horizon38, the site fronts onto the A38 in Filton near the former Filton airfield, Airbus and Rolls-Royce.
The developers secured detailed planning consent last year for up to 1.2 million sq ft of commercial space. In addition to
warehousing and industrial space, the £120m development will include a frontage of mixed-use with car dealerships, trade
counters, self-storage and a hotel. Major groundworks will commence on site early 2016, with phased development leading to the
construction of the first completed buildings expected early in 2017.
Durham County Council has approved plans for a £28.5m redevelopment of the Lambton Estate in County
Durham, including shops, wedding venue and offices. The 400-house development at the Lambton Estate includes a
major renovation of the site, including the Grade II listed Lambton Castle, renowned architect Ignatius Bonomi’s Grade II-listed Lamb
Bridge and some castle stables. Areas would be opened to the public, with nine miles of new footpaths and cycleways in the former
Lambton Lion Park, which closed in 1982. Lambton Castle is expected to become a wedding venue or boutique hotel, or both, and
the creation of executive and affordable housing in picturesque surroundings will fund the multi-million pound work.
Budget operator Travelodge has announced that it will open 19 new hotels in 2016, representing a
combined investment value of £140m. This means that the company’s network will be extended to 542 hotels by the end of
the year. The new openings scheduled for 2016 are:
 London Belvedere
 London Raynes Park
 London Finchley
 Andover
 London Finsbury Park
 Bristol Filton
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Bicester
Chatham
Derby
 East Grinstead
 Poole
 Thetford
 Glasgow Queen Street
 Sale
 Weston-super-mare
 Kings Lynn
 Stirling
 Peterhead
 Stockport
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In addition, Travelodge has also just acquired three new sites in London’s Acton and Wood Green and Oxford on which it will
develop new hotels. Travelodge is currently focusing its efforts on building a greater network of hotels for business customers, but
the new openings in Poole, Weston-Super-Mare, Bicester and Thetford will be aimed at the leisure market. In addition to the 2016
openings, the company has also identified 250 further locations for Travelodge development in the UK.
Urban&Civic has been granted planning permission for a £100m hotel and apartment scheme on a car park
site in Manchester city centre. It will see the development of a 148-bedroom, four-star hotel and 238 residential apartments,
along with ground-floor commercial units and a new landscaped public square. The one-acre site, located on Princess Street and
Whitworth Street in the city, was initially purchased by Urban&Civic for £7.8m in December 2014. It had existing planning consent
granted in 2007 for a mixed-use development for a 12-storey hotel, six-storey office and 180 unit residential building under a
scheme known as Origin, but Urban & Civic said that the new planning approval better suits the current market and its aspirations
for the site.
MANCHESTER - Ridgefield House, 14 John Dalton Street £3.29m
Planning authority: Manchester Job: Detail Plans Granted for restaurant (extension/alterations) Client: Individual Restaurant
Company Developer: Robert Angell Design Studio, 85C Forest Road, London, E8 3BT Tel: 0207 6846655
The Museum of London has been given the green light to move to nearby Smithfield Market after
redevelopment plans for the historic site were abandoned. The government had previously announced plans to
redevelop the Victorian complex in central London, demolishing the historic site in favour of a seven-storey office block and retail
outlet. Those plans were thrown out however, when property developer TH Real Estate sold the meat market last month to the City
of London Corporation in a £35m deal. Visitor figures at the Museum of London have more than doubled in recent years and
continue to grow. The move is expected to create an additional 5,000sq ft (464.5sq m) of space, with the aim of reaching two million
visitors per year. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70m.
Hilton Garden Inn Sunderland is a new 141-bedroom hotel currently under construction alongside the
Stadium of Light in Sunderland. It is set to open May 2016.
Hotel Indigo Brighton - New England Quarter is a new hotel expected to open autumn 2016 in the south
coast resort. It will include 98 boutique style bedrooms and suites, a bar, restaurant and a fitness facility.
IHG plan to launched its first four Holiday Inn Express Next Generation hotels in the UK. The first four Holiday
Inn Express Next Generation hotels will be:
Holiday Inn Express London - Park Royal
Holiday Inn Express Grimsby
Holiday Inn Express London - Ealing
Holiday Inn Express Portsmouth - North.
The changes cover all aspects of the hotel. The lobby, dining area and bedrooms in the Next Generation properties will be
redesigned and a new food and beverage concept launched.
The new bedrooms will include a larger bed with a padded, noise-reducing headboard which will also provide back support for
working or watching television in bed. Bedrooms will feature a Smart TV enabling guests to stream their own media from a personal
device or log in to apps using the hotel’s complimentary wi-fi.
Traditional in-room desks have been replaced with moveable chairs and desks.
A new Express Café & Bar will be located in a integrated lobby and will offer quickly prepared food ‘on the go’.
IHG plan to convert at least one in every four Holiday Inn Express properties to the Next Generation within the next three years.
Shankly Hotel in Liverpool will be opening ‘Eden’, their new rooftop conference and events centre in spring
2016. Eden will accommodate up to 350 delegates. It also includes a roof top garden with panoramic views of the city.
The Grade II-listed former headquarters and congress centre for the Baptist Church in Holborn, London is
currently being converted into a new five star luxury hotel. L’Oscar hotel is expected to open in September 2016 with
41 suites. The project involves the refurbishment of the five-storey building in Southampton Row, a vertical extension to provide an
additional two floors and the renovation of the original chapel into a multi-purpose space for conferences and events. As well as the
suites, L’Oscar hotel will also include a restaurant, banqueting suite and library.
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UK hotel investment reached £8.1b in 2015, just missing 2006’s all-time high of £8.3b, according to
international real estate advisors Savills, who said that 2016 was also set to be a strong year. The figure fell
just short of the £8.5b that Savills predicted in October for 2015, but was 31.6% higher than the investment for the previous year of
2014. Transaction volumes in London doubled to £3.6b in 2015 compared to 2014, largely thanks to deals such as the £1.37b sale
of the Maybourne portfolio, which included iconic London site Claridge’s. Conversely, the regional hotel market accounted for
55.6% of transaction volumes, which Savills described as “strong”, although it was down on the 71% seen in 2014. Notable regional
transactions in 2015 included the sale of the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead for around £37m and the sale of the Cambridge City Hotel
for £61.5m. Overall, the market was dominated by portfolio transactions, accounting for 59.3% of volumes in 2015, up from an also
significant 52.9% in 2014. Key examples of these included Lone Star Funds’ acquisition of a portfolio of 22 Mercure-branded hotels
as part of its £1b acquisition from Moorfield, and Fraser Hospitality’s £363m purchase of the Malmaison portfolio.
Argentinian-style steakhouse group Cau has confirmed plans to open its 17th site, in Bath’s Milsom Place
shopping centre. The 3,500 sq ft, 120-cover restaurant will be spread over two floors including an al fresco seating area on the
first floor. It will combine two units of existing restaurants, currently Pizza Solo and Le Parisien. News of the opening comes soon
after the announcement of the fast-growing group’s 16th site, which opened in MediaCityUK in Manchester in December last year,
marking the eighth opening for the brand in 2015 overall.
The first two AC Hotels by Marriott planned for the UK will be part of a wider global expansion of the
design-led, lifestyle brand. Marriott International has announced that it will open a total of 22 AC Hotels during 2016,
including ones in Salford Quays, Manchester, and at the Mailbox, Birmingham. AC Manchester and AC Birmingham are both being
rebranded from Ramada. Owned by MCAP Global Finance, they will be managed by Valor Hospitality. AC Hotels was founded in
1998 in Spain by Antonio Catalán, who joined forces with Marriott in 2011 to operate the brand as a co-venture. Today the brand
has more than 80 hotels in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Turkey, France and the United States. Growth plans include more than
50 new hotels within the next three years.
BC Partners-backed restaurant chain, Cote has acquired the Jackson & Rye and Limeyard brands from
Richard Caring. Jackson & Rye serves up US diner-style food from three outlets in Soho, Richmond and
Chiswick. Limeyard is an all-day casual dining concept with a single restaurant in Ealing. Cote currently operates 71 own-brand
restaurants, and intends to further expand the brand and the newly acquired brands.
Helical Bar has let the seventh floor of The Warehouse building at The Bower, London EC1, to online
payments company Stripe Payments UK on a five year lease. The transaction also represents the final letting within
the 150,700 sq ft phase 1 of The Bower which was completed in late 2015. Work has now started on phase 2, The Tower, which will
deliver a further 177,300 sq ft of space next to Old Street Underground Station in the heart of London’s Tech Belt. In November
2015 Helical announced an agreement with its joint venture partner, Crosstree Real Estate Partners LLP, to take control of The
Bower development for £248m, completion of which is expected in the first quarter of 2016.
Gerald Ronson’s Heron development company has let the final four floors at its Salesforce tower London.
The last available space in the building, formally known as Heron Tower, has been let to Salesforce, which continues to be the
anchor tenant with a total occupancy of 10 floors.
Investment company Ashby Capital has completed a series of retail and office lettings at its 200 Aldersgate
scheme in Farringdon, with rents now exceeding £80/sq ft. The recent lettings total 16,342 sq ft and include retail
deals with EAT and Abokado, as well as space leased to office occupiers including Ford Motor Company and the Jampur Group.
Ford has agreed to pay £66/sq ft for space on an upper floor in the building, while the Jampur Group is understood to have paid
£81.50/ sq ft for space on the 16th floor.
CF Commercial, which styles itself as London’s ‘hipster’ property agent, is to move into Resolution
Property’s Alphabeta building. CF Commercial will take 1,200 sq ft of space on a 10-year lease in the now fully-let building.
The company, which specialises in finding unique retail and leisure operators for mixed-use developments, is one of the agents
responsible for leasing Alphabeta. Established in 2008, clients of CF Commercial include Resolution, Delancey, Berkeley Group and
Taylor Wimpey. Currently based in Tabernacle Court, Shoreditch, CF Commercial said its new premises will allow it to continue
growing and better service its clients. The 240,000 sq ft Alphabeta building, formerly Triton Hall, sits between Worship Street,
Shoreditch and Finsbury Square in the City. Other office tenants in the building include SEI, Silicon Valley Bank, Maxus Global, We
Are Social, OpenTable and Mendeley.
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Mitsubishi Estate London has secured a pre-let with Rathbone Brothers on almost half of its 160,000 sq ft
office scheme at 8 Finsbury Circus in the City. Rathbone Brothers has signed up to take 75,000 sq ft on the lower ground
and fifth to eighth floors of the building, three months before its practical completion. The deal follows an earlier pre-let on 11,000
sq ft on the ground and lower ground floors to Wright & Bell for a bakery, restaurant and bar. Around 80,000 sq ft of office space
still remains to be let across four floors of the Wilkinson Eyre-designed building.
Land Securities has let the fifth floor of its Zig Zag Building in Victoria on a 10-year lease to foreign exchange
firm Moneycorp. The deal sees Moneycorp take 23,000 sq ft at the building which will replace its current headquarters in
Knightsbridge. Land Securities reached practical completion on the Zig Zag Building last November. The building is now 89% let to
tenants including Deutsche Bank.
Belfast Harbour has signed up Boston tech firm Cayan to occupy two floors of its City Quays 1 office
building. The letting accounts for around one third of the 84,000 sq ft waterfront building and will see Cayan join law firm Baker
& McKenzie which occupies the top two floors. Cayan is expected to take up occupancy in the spring following the fit-out of its
office. The firm first opened in Northern Ireland in 2013 at Belfast Harbour’s Clarendon Buildings. Belfast Harbour said it was in the
final stages of signing leases for the remaining space at City Quays 1 and would soon start construction work on City Quays 2.
Addleshaw Goddard has confirmed that it has signed a deal to move its Manchester office to One St Peter’s
Square. The law firm has taken 56,000 sq ft, equating to two-and-a-half floors of the 13-storey building, on a 20 year lease and
will move from its current premises in Barbirolli Square in February 2017. One St Peter’s Square was developed by Elisabeth House,
General Partner Limited, a joint venture between Greater Manchester Pension Fund and Argent.
CHELTENHAM £5.733M
GCHQ Benhall, Hubble Road
Planning authority: Cheltenham Job: Detail Plans Granted for temporary office building Client: Integrated Accommodation Services
Agent: HLN Architects Ltd, 12 The Croft, Buntsford Drive, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Hereford & Worcester, B60 4JE
Contractor: Galliford Try Building, 6060 Knights Court, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham Business Park, Birmingham, West Midlands,
B37 7WY Tel: 0121 717 5400
BRIGHTON £9M
City College East, Wilson Avenue
Planning authority: Brighton & Hove Job: Detail Plans Granted for college (extension) Client: City College Brighton and Hove
Agent: HNW Architects, 61 North Street, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1NB Contractor: Osborne Ltd, Fonteyn House, 47 - 49
London Road, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9PY Tel: 08000 258 008
University College London, Laws Buildings, Gower Street £18m
Planning authority: London Docklands Dev Corp Job: Detail Plans Granted for university (extension/alterations)
Client: University College London Agent: Levitt Bernstein Associates Ltd, 1 Kingsland Passage, London, E8 2BB
Contractor: Gilbert Ash (NI) Limited, 47 Boucher Road, Belfast, BT12 6HR
SOUTHAMPTON £1.2M
King Edward VI School, Wilton Road
Planning authority: Southampton Job: Detail Plans Granted for school (extension) Client: Governors Of King Edward VI School
Agent: Morse Webb Architects, Black Barn, Kiff Green, Upper Woolhampton, Reading, Berkshire, RG7 5TN
Contractor: Beard Guildford, Stonemasons Court, Cemetery Pales, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey, GU24 0BL Tel: 01483 485180
ST. ALBANS £8.5M
William Ransom Primary School, Forres Primary School, & Prae Wood Primary School
Planning authority: North Hertfordshire Job: Detail Plans Granted for 3 schools (preconstruction) Client: Hertfordshire County
Council Agent: Hertfordshire County Council, County Hall, Pegs Lane, Hertford, SG13 8DE Contractor: Willmott Dixon Construction,
Willmott Dixon House, Wilbury Way, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4 0TP Tel: 01462 442200
SUTTON £0.5M
Robin Hood Junior School, Thorncroft Rd
Planning authority: Sutton Job: Detail Plans Granted for school (extension) Client: London Borough of Sutton Agent: Atkins Plc,
Woodcote Grove, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5AL Contractor: Walker Construction UK Ltd, Park Farm Road, Park Farm
Industrial Estate, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5DY Tel: 01303 851111
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WALTON-ON-THAMES £27M
Rydens County Senior School, Hersham Road, Hersham
Planning authority: Elmbridge Job: Detail Plans Granted for school Client: Rydens Enterprise School and Sixth Form College
Agent: Scott Brownrigg Ltd, 77 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9DZ Contractor: BAM Construction UK Ltd, Building 4 Centrium
Business Park, Griffiths Way, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 2RD Tel: 01727 894200
BIRMINGHAM £2.42M
Land adjacent to Goose PH, 561 Bristol Road, Selly Oak
Planning authority: Birmingham Job: Detail Plans Granted for student flats & retail unit Client: Victoria Hall Ltd Developer:
O’Connell East Architects, 63 Newton St, Manchester, M1 1ET Tel: 0161 839 9380
Birmingham City University, Plot 2A, £18.27m
Planning authority: Birmingham Job: Detail Plans Granted for university Client: Birmingham City University
Agent: Sheppard Robson, 27th Floor City Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester, M1 4BT Contractor: BAM Construction Ltd, Fore 2
Huskisson Way, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands, B90 4SS Tel: 0121 746 4000
CAMBRIDGE £6M
Kettles Yard, Castle Street
Planning authority: Cambridge Job: Detail Plans Granted for art gallery & museum (ext/alterations) Client: University of Cambridge
Agent: Jamie Fobert Architects, 5 Crescent Row, London, EC1Y 0SP Contractor: SDC Construction Group, Lime Grove House, Caxton
Road, Bedford, MK41 0QQ Tel: 01234 363155
Anglia Ruskin University has picked Morgan Sindall to build a £25m science centre at its Cambridge Campus.
The 82,000 sq ft Science Centre will bring together teaching, postgraduate and staff amenities for the different departments within
the Faculty of Science and Technology. Morgan Sindall will build a 300-seat lecture theatre adapted for science subjects, a 200-seat
super-laboratory, staff offices and several specialist teaching areas.
ELY £25M
New Secondary & Special School, Camel Road
Planning authority: East Cambridgeshire Job: Detail Plans Granted for school Client: Cambridgeshire County Council
Agent: WYG Group Ltd, 100 St. John Street, London, EC1M 4EH Contractor: Morgan Sindall Plc, Babraham Road, Sawston,
Cambridge, CB22 3LJ Tel: 01223 836611
NOTTINGHAM - Talbot House, Talbot Street £15.72m
Planning authority: Nottingham Job: Detail Plans Granted for 214 student flats (new/alterations)
Client: Fusion Students Agent: Corstorphine & Wright, Brookhall, Brook Street, Warwick, CV34 4BL Contractor: Robertson
Construction, Park Sq, Thorncliffe Business Park, Chapeltown, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S35 2PH Tel: 0114 399 3960
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Mount Street £5m
Planning authority: Liverpool Job: Detail Plans Granted for school (extension/alterations)
Client: Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Agent: Ryder Architecture, Innovation Centre, 131 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool,
Merseyside, L3 5TF Contractor: Kier Construction Limited (Northern), Kier House, Windward Drive, Estuary Business Park, Speke,
Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8QR Tel: 0151 448 5200
GLASGOW - Woodhill Primary School, Kirriemuir Road, Bishopbriggs £7.15m
Planning authority: East Dunbarton Job: Detail Plans Granted for school Client: East Dunbartonshire District Council
Developer: Archial Norr, 40 Elliot Street, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G3 8DZ Tel: 0141 204 6500
BATHGATE £0.8M
Blackridge Primary School, Main Street, Blackridge
Planning authority: West Lothian Job: Detail Plans Granted for school (extension/alterations) Client: West Lothian Council
Agent: Smith Scott Mullan Associates, 378 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH7 4PF Contractor: Maxi Construction Ltd, Firth Road,
Houston Industrial Estate, Livingston, Lothian, EH54 5DJ Tel: 01506 442233
KILMARNOCK £35M
Kilmarnock Learning Campus, Sutherland Drive
Planning authority: East Ayrshire Job: Detail Plans Granted for school Client: East Ayrshire Council Agent: Archial Architects, BonAccord Crescent, 3 Bon-Accord Crescent, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 6XH Contractor: Kier Construction Limited (Scotland), Campsie
House, Buchanan Business Park, Cumbernauld Road, Stepps, Glasgow, Strathclyde, G33 6HZ Tel: 0141 779 3020
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HOLYHEAD £16.7M
Holyhead Primary School, former Ysgol Cybi school
Planning authority: Anglesey Job: Detail Plans Granted for school Client: Isle Of Anglesey County Council
Agent: Isle Of Anglesey County Council, Anglesey Business Centre, Bryn Cefni Business Park, Llangefni, Gwynedd, LL77 7XA
Contractor: Wynne Construction, Charles House, Kinmel Park, Abergele Road, Bodelwyddan, Rhyl, Clwyd, LL18 5TY
Tel: 01745 586666
LLANTWIT MAJOR £2M
United World College of the Atlantic, St Donats Castle, St Donat’s
Planning authority: Vale Of Glamorgan Job: Detail Plans Granted for college sports hall/dance studio (extension)
Client: United World College Of The Atlantic Agent: Faithful+Gould, 4th Floor Longcross Court, 47 Newport Road, Cardiff, South
Glamorgan, CF24 0AD Contractor: John Weaver (Contractors) Ltd, Morfa House, 126 Neath Road, Hafod, Swansea, West
Glamorgan, SA1 2JW Tel: 01792 464004
CHELMSFORD £3.67M
South Lodge Hotel, 196 New London Rd
Planning authority: Chelmsford Job: Detail Plans Granted for care home Client: Carebase Ltd Agent: DW Architects Ltd, Rievaulx
House St. Marys Ct, 39 Blossom Street, York, North Yorkshire, YO24 1AH Contractor: TEC Construction Ltd, The Base, Victoria Road,
Dartford, Kent, DA1 5FS Tel: 01322 314810
LIVERPOOL - Woodpecker Hotel, 103 Bigdale Drive, Northwood £3.2m
Planning authority: Knowsley Job: Detail Plans Granted for care home Client: CTTP CWQC Developer: Atelier 2 Architecture Ltd, 27
Duke Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 5AP Tel: 0151 7080406
LONDON: Hazelhurst Court, Beckenham Hill Road £9m
Planning authority: Lewisham Job: Detail Plans Granted for 60 elderly persons extra care flats Client: Phoenix Community Housing
Agent: Levitt Bernstein Associates Ltd, 1 Kingsland Passage, London, E8 2BB Contractor: Rydon Construction Ltd, Homes Rydon
House, Station Road, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5DW Tel: 01342 825151
HUDDERSFIELD £2.4M
The Badger, 199 Bradley Road Bradley
Planning authority: Kirklees Job: Detail Plans Granted for elderly care home Client: Mitch Developments Ltd
Agent: Alston Murphy Associates, 41a Groat Market, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear, NE1 1UG Contractor: Walter Thompson
Contractors, Construction House, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, DL7 8ED Tel: 01609 780700
YORK £7.9m
Former Terrys Offices, Bishopthorpe Rd
Planning authority: York Job: Detail Plans Granted for care home (conversion/extension) Client: Springfield Healthcare Group
Agent: Archial Norr, The Embankment, Sovereign Street, Victoria Wharf, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4BA
Contractor: Simpson (York) Ltd, P.O Box 289, Hassacarr Lane, Chessingham Park, Dunnington, York, North Yorkshire, YO19 5YL
Tel: 01904 562400
PRESTONPANS £3.74M
Cockenzie House, 22 Edinburgh Road, Cockenzie
Planning authority: East Lothian Job: Detail Plans Granted for nursing home Client: Mrs. Patricia Maria McDonald
Developer: Gilbert Associates, 39 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, Lothian, EH1 2HS Tel: 0131 247 3100
UKTI Alerts
Portugal - Investment of 75 M Euros for four Boutique Hotels
Football star Cristiano Ronaldo will put up €37m for a €75m investment in four boutique hotels with Pestana, Portugal's biggest
hotel operator. This full online edition with links is available at:
http://www.businessopportunities.ukti.gov.uk/uktihome/item/976300.html
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Dominican Republic - Acquisition of office furniture
Acquisition and installation of furniture and household items to equip and 18 First Level Centres of Regional Health Services
This full online edition with links is available at:
http://www.businessopportunities.ukti.gov.uk/uktihome/item/975240.html
Rezidor announces the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel, Addis Ababa. The upper upscale property featuring 165
keys is scheduled to welcome the first guests in 2017 . It is the second Radisson Blu hotel in Addis Ababa – further
strengthening the group’s presence in Ethiopia and in Africa as a whole: Rezidor has the largest pipeline of hotels and rooms under
development of any international hotel operator on the continent
Wyndham Hotel Group has announced plans to open four new hotels across Saudi Arabia, Jordan and
Bahrain under its growing, globally-recognised, Ramada Worldwide flag. The hotels, all scheduled to open between
now and the end of March 2016, include the 161-room Ramada Resort Dead Sea in Jordan; the 165-room Ramada Jeddah Corniche
in Saudi Arabia, the 162-room Ramada Hotel & Suites Amwaj Island and the 140-room Ramada Manama City Centre, both located in
Bahrain. Ramada currently has more than 840 midscale and upscale properties across 60 plus countries worldwide, including 29
open and operating in the Middle East. Wyndham Hotel Group, which presently has two properties in Manama namely Days Hotel
Manama and Ramada Bahrain, is growing its footprint in Bahrain by adding four additional hotels including Ramada Manama City
Centre, Ramada Hotel & Suites Amwaj Island, Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham Al Juffair and finally the Wyndham Grand Manama,
bringing the total portfolio in market to six hotels representing a total of 1,197 rooms.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts (NYSE:HOT) today announced it closed 2015 with 220 new signed hotel
management and franchise agreements, a 26% increase over the prior year, marking the sixth consecutive
year of increased signings and the most incremental signings in its history. The company also opened a record of
105 hotels in 2015, representing approximately 22.5k rooms in 30 countries, also the highest number of openings in its history
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