A new boutique hotel in Cardiff has taken its name from the children of singer Charlotte Church, WalesOnline.co.uk reports.
The Dexby Hotel has been opened by Church’s mother, and is an amalgamation of the names of her grand children, Dexter and Ruby.
The new boutique hotel is set in a three storey townhouse near to Portcanna Fields in Cardiff.
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The fate of a new boutique hotel proposed in Greenwich took a step closer to being resolved this week as a public inquiry got under way.
The independent planning inspector’s inquiry into the controversial redevelopment of Greenwich Market,which include a 100-bedroom boutique hotel, began at Woolwich Town Hall on Tuesday morning.
The hearings will continue through to next Friday before the inspector goes away to make his recommendations.
The final decision on whether the development at the market, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be taken by Local Government Secretary of State, Eric Pickles.
Read a report on the first day of the inquiry from local blog, 853.
Liverpool’s Hope Street Hotel has arranged a refinancing deal worth almost £9million.
The financing was provided by the Co-operative Bank, reports the Liverpool Daily Post, and follows a comprehensive makeover at the boutique hotel.
The paper says that:
The makeover saw the hotel take over and convert a neighbouring former police station and build six storeys on top.
It created a new glass and limestone exterior on Hope Street itself, along with a new reception area.
Find out more about the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool.
The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, this week issued an extraordinary statement denying a “improper relationship” between him and his special advisor and former driver, Chris Myers.
The move came after several newspapers printed photographs of Hague with his young advisor, prompting gossip blogs to speculating the extent of their relationship.
It’s now been revealed that the two men shared a hotel room at a boutique hotel in Birmingham.
Both men stayed in the ‘Moet et Chandon’ twin room at Birmingham’s Hotel Du Vin in Church Street on April 29th.
Hague’s statement this week dismissed rumours that he had been in a relationship with Myers and defended his decision to appoint him. The statement commented:
He is easily qualified for the job he holds. Any suggestion that his appointment was due to an improper relationship between us is utterly false, as is any suggestion that I have ever been involved in a relationship with any man
LOCAL Greenwich councillors and residents took to the streets on Sunday to protest against the prospect of a new hotel and redevelopment at the famous Greenwich Market in south-east London
Plans to build the 104-bedroom hotel and “regenerate” the covered market were thrown out by Greenwich Council’s planning board last year but local landlords, Greenwich Hospital, are appealing to the independent Planning Inspectorate to overturn that decision.
Councillor David Grant was at the demonstration and commented that the proposal would provide more accommodation “but at the same time make Greenwich less attractive to visit.”
Edward Dolby from Greenwich Hospital Trust commented “The hotel that features in our regeneration plans will be a welcome addition to the town centre and not a threat or competitor to the market – rather it should provide additional custom for our traders.”
The developers got a boost earlier late last year when local MP, Nick Raynsford, told a local website that the council had been “absolutely wrong” to reject the proposal and that he had “no doubt” that the redevelopment would eventually go ahead.
It had been previously been announced that The Bespoke Hotel Company Ltd would be the operator for the boutique hotel if it’s built. If consent is given by the Planning Inspectorate, Greenwich Hospital expects the project to complete in time for Christmas 2014.
The independent Planning Inspector will begin his inquiry next month.