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A £30m floating leisure village is set to transform the former Canting Basin in Glasgow. Scottish Enterprise said


Te Alma now features a 23-room boutique hotel


Young’s opens new South London hotel


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Pub operator and brewer Young’s has unveiled a new 23-bedroom hotel at its Alma pub in Wandsworth, South London, following a £2.7m investment. A new accommodation wing featuring


boutique-style bedrooms has been added to the pub, which will add to the group’s exist- ing portfolio of nearly 350 rooms. Hotel designers RDD were involved with


the scheme, which also included a revamp of Te Alma’s pub and dining room. Te property also includes an events space.


Ashford development consultation launches


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Ashford Borough Council (ABC) is invit- ing local residents to have their say on a new planning document outlining potential development sites in the Kent town. Covering a period up until 2016, the


Urban Sites and Infrastructure Development Plan Document has identified possible loca- tions for sport and recreation schemes. ABC’s strategy also sets out potential


sites for open spaces. Te consultation is scheduled to end at 5pm on 4 February and also identifies potential urban extensions.


Stockport Council secures leisure complex acquisition


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Stockport Council has announced that it has completed a deal to acquire the town’s Grand Central leisure complex. Te purchase is designed to help push


forward the regeneration of central Stockport and to attract up to a further £100m in private sector investment. Stockport Council leader Dave Goddard


said: “Our proactive approach to the rede- velopment of the site includes working with private sector partners to build office space, a hotel and multi-storey car park.”


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that plans put forward by Manchester-based Floating Concepts – designed by ZM Architecture and water-based architects Baca – had been selected for the scheme. Work is scheduled to start


in the second quarter of 2012 and will take up to three years to complete, with the complex to be built in three phases. Floating Concepts is to


Te Canting Basin plans include a marina and a roof-top concert arena


hold talks with Glasgow City Council with a view to submitting an outline planning application for the scheme, which will include a roof-top concert arena; a marina; res- taurants; shops; offices and residential units.


Floating Concepts chief executive David


Beard said: “All great coastal cities have a prime waterfront destination and now Glasgow has the chance to join those ranks.”


Mixed-use revamp for Armagh Gaol peTe hAYMAn


A former gaol in Armagh, Northern Ireland, is to be transformed as part of a mixed-use development. Armagh City and District


Council has held an event to gather views on plans for a reconciliation and heritage centre as part of the scheme. The attraction will form


part of a wider heritage-led development for Armagh Gaol, with the council work- ing alongside Trevor Osborne Property Group and The Prince’s Regeneration Trust. Plans for the gaol also include a new hotel,


It is hoped the plans will open up previously closed off parts of the gaol


spa, retail space and residential units and will help transform a previously closed off part of the gaol into an accessible city resource. Trevor Osborne said that the heritage and


reconciliation centre is at the very heart of the regeneration and the project team would be


doing the community a disservice if it “didn’t get its buy in” for the project. Ros Kerslake, the chief executive of Te


Prince’s Regeneration Trust, added: “We want the centre to be both a reflective acknowledge- ment of a difficult past and a real opportunity to promote reconciliation.”


Two potential schemes for former arms dump peTe hAYMAn


Two developers have been shortlisted to lead a mixed-use scheme at a former Royal Navy arms dump at Broughton Moor, Cumbria. Allerdale Borough Council and Cumbria County Council acquired the 425-hectare


Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital


(1,050-acre) site in 2008 and aim to dispose of it by 31 August. Derwent Forest Developments and ESH


Developments have now been given more time to refine their proposals, which could both include leisure facilities.


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