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Clubs vow to pursue new stadium plans
Bristol City Football Club (BCFC) and Nottingham Forest Football Club (NFFC) have vowed to continue with plans for new stadiums. Despite the...
Added/updated: Thursday 09 December 2010
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Opportunities, 03/12/2010
HLF announces £45m budget increase
An additional £45m will be made available by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for new grants in 2011-12, it has been confirmed. The funding agency has...
Added/updated: Thursday 09 December 2010
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Opportunities, 30/11/2010
Balls Bros enters administration
City wine bar chain Balls Brothers has gone into administration. Zolfo Cooper has been appointed joint administrators to both Balls Brothers and...
Added/updated: Thursday 09 December 2010
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Opportunities, 02/12/2010
City Inn in rebranding move
The City Inn hotel chain is rebranding as Mint Hotel ahead of new openings in London, UK in December and Amsterdam, The Netherlands in the spring of...
Added/updated: Thursday 09 December 2010
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Opportunities, 02/12/2010
Sanguine secures £10m Birmingham deal
Sanguine Hospitality has secured a £10m deal to develop a new four-star hotel, restaurant and a luxury health club and spa at The Cube building in...
Added/updated: Thursday 09 December 2010
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Opportunities, 02/12/2010
Consulting and Planning Case Studies
New and updated case studies have been added to the Consulting and Planning pages detailing a range of recent successes, projects, instructions and...
Added/updated: Saturday 03 July 2010
Category: News summary, Planning, Consultancy
Source/Contact: Humberts Leisure
Recession hits fourth-quarter sales at Premier Inn
Premier Inn sales slipped in the final quarter of last year as the downturn in the economy hit the budget hotel chain, Whitbread revealed...
Added/updated: Monday 02 March 2009
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: CatererSearch, 02/03/2009
Green light for £850m Edinburgh proposals
The City of Edinburgh Council (CEC) has approved an outline planning application for the £850m transformation of a 13-acre (5.3-hectare) site in the...
Added/updated: Monday 02 March 2009
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Opportunities, 02/03/2009
Casa hotel given green light
Proposals for the £20m Casa Hotel and Office scheme on the outskirts of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, have been given planning consent by the borough...
Added/updated: Monday 02 March 2009
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Property, 24/02/2009
Visitor attractions resist downturn
New figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) have revealed that many of Britain's top attractions have seen an...
Added/updated: Monday 02 March 2009
Category: News summary
Source/Contact: Leisure Property, 26/02/2009