The 30-bedroom hotel has been purchased by Blonde & Grey Ltd, set up by hotel operators and consultants Tim and Hazel Brocklebank, who also run The Brocklebank Partnership Consultancy
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Maritime Capital, which acquired the site in 2019, is working on an ambitious plan that is seeing new bedrooms, a refreshed F&B space and investments into green installations top the agenda
UKHospitality has called for clear, comprehensive measures to ensure an end to the lockdown, with a particular need to counter the impact of the resumption of business rates payments in July
The 10-bedroom hotel is part of the Havana West portfolio, of which Peter de Savary and his wife Lana are directors and is being sold in order for the company to focus on its other properties
New initiatives to boost tourism include £10 million National Lottery Days Out scheme to support attractions and a new rail pass to encourage domestic breaks in a bid to return domestic tourism to pre-pandemic levels by 2022
In May, the Cutmore-Scott family opened the doors to their first boutique hotel in Norfolk, in a change of pace from running their successful portfolio of wedding venues across the country
Due to open in 2023, construction of the new site will begin this summer and will be the seventh property for the expanding aparthotel group
Crisis to leave lasting legacy without more support and timely lifting of restrictions, UKHospitality's Kate Nicholls told House of Commons Treasury Committee hearing on Monday
Unite welcomed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's pledge to help the industry, but claimed that the some of the issues around labour were “self-inflicted” due to the volume of redundancies that were made during the crisis last year
The company have taken over the Georgian hotel for an undisclosed sum after the business closed due to the impact of the pandemic last year and hope to create a new spa and extra bedrooms under new plans
