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Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk Emirates to sponsor Thames project


London mayor Boris Johnson has confirmed the signing of a new ten-year sponsorship deal worth £36m for the proposed cable car link across the River Tames between Greenwich and the Royal Docks. Te Emirates Air Line will


cater for up to 2,500 passen- gers per hour each way and is expected to carry 2 million visitors in its first year. Te deal enables the mayor


and Transport for London to recoup upfront costs relating to the construction, while funding 80 per cent of the overall building costs. A bid to the European Regional Development Fund, due to be decided next spring, is part of a fund- ing strategy for the project, along with further sponsorship and retail space rental.


Wilkinson Eyre are behind the design of the planned new cable car link Te Wilkinson Eyre-designed scheme aims


to reduce journey times between the O2 Arena and the ExCeL venue and transform the area into a ‘metropolitan quarter’.


PPL fee plans face hospitality industry opposition


Hospitality trade bodies have joined forces against Phonographic Performance Ltd’s (PPL) plans for “huge” increases in the Specially Featured Entertainment Tariff. Te British Hospitality Association and the British Beer and Pub Association are among


the groups against proposals covering music played at discos in pubs and clubs. A submission has been made against PPL’s


plans alongside the Bar Entertainment and Dance Association of Great Britain and the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers.


UK move for eco-restaurant concept


Australia-based designer Joost Bakker has told Leisure Management he will launch his first overseas Greenhouse restaurant in London next year. Te eco-restaurant concept first opened in Perth in 2009 and has gathered momentum following a pop-up restaurant that operated for six weeks at Sydney’s har- bourside in March. As well as the UK launch, permanent sites


are being planned for Sydney and Melbourne. Te London site will open by mid-2012. Te Greenhouse concept is based on using


produce sourced solely from biodynamic farms while the building itself has been built using the Productive Building Method (PBM) developed by Bakker. PBM uses recycled and recyclable materials with even the solid steel structure being 100 per cent recyclable. Te menu changes constantly, is dependent


24 Te first Greenhouse venue opened in Sydney in 2009


on available produce and includes a number of ecologically-friendly, organic solutions. One of these is using freshly milled wheat. “If someone orders a pasta at noon, it would


have been wheat at 11am” Bakker explained. “You can’t get faster than that from grain to plate.” Read more: http://lei.sr?a=l5K6U


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