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12 January - 25 January 2010 Circulation 23,035 (July 07 – June 08) Work begins on Glamorgan's sports science centre

By Tom Walker ed by June 2010. It is hoped that, once complete, the facility Construction has begun on a will be used by the Welsh new £2.6m sports science Rugby Union and local centre at the University of professional teams from various Glamorgan in Pontypridd, sporting disciplines. South Wales. Alun Woodruff, the Univer- The centre, which has been sity's director of estates, said: designed by London-based "This is another piece of the Holder Mathias Architects, is University's Capital Develop- being built on the existing play- ment jigsaw which will raise the ing fields at the university and bar in terms of sporting includes a new multi-purpose facilities, not just at Glamorgan, sports hall with six courts and The new centre has bee designed by Holder Mathias Architects but within Wales as a whole. an ancillary support block. "Sport is a growing part of The sports centre will also act The new facility is the first has been designed in accor- the university's curriculum and as a high-tech teaching and sports centre in Wales to be dance with the latest Sport I have no doubt that the training facility with a monitor- awarded a BREEAM (Building England guidelines. Glamorgan Sport Park building ing room enabling teaching Research Establishment Work on the project is being will inspire our students to staff to track strength and the Environmental Assessment carried out by Midas Construc- achieve great things in the conditioning of athletes. Method) Excellent rating and tion and is due to be complet- sporting field."

British Museum's expansion approved by council BW publishes Ambitious £135m plans for new museum wing receive Camden Council approval trust plans British Waterways has By Tom Walker The rejigged plans, drawn published its plans for a up by architects Rogers Stirk ‘national trust’ to be Camden Council in London has Harbour + Partners, include created in order to secure awarded planning permission sinking part of the extension the future of the UK’s for the £135m expansion of below the ground in an canals and navigable the British Museum. attempt to solve criticism rivers and waterways. The plans received the green that the extension will block The organisation has light at the second time of views of the Grade I-listed published a report trying, after the council turned Reading Room. entitled Setting a new down an initial application for RSHP's original plans course, Britain’s water- the works in June 2009. The British Museum will be included a 1,000 sq m ways in the third sector, The previous, rejected plans expanded by 10,760sq ft (10,760sq ft) building at the which outlines the had angered a local conserva- rear of the museum, replacing proposals to move from tion group, Bloomsbury daylight from the existing the former ofﬁces of the British the public sector and Conservation Area Advisory buildings and "diminish the Library on Montague Place, as close the current £30m Committee, which claimed the museum's existing architec- well as a conservation centre annual gap in funding. development would block tural delights". to train museum conservators.

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£7m redevelopment underway at MOSI IN THIS ISSUE Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams designs upgrade for iconic Manchester museum 04 HEALTH & FITNESS By Tom Walker Spiceball opens

Rehab gym launched Work has begun on a £7m redevelopment project on the 06 SPORT Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester. Active People survey The project is being led by New ground for Barnet architects Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams and funded jointly by 08 HOSPITALITY the European Regional Travelodge expands Development Fund (ERDF), North West Development Whitbread still buoyant Agency (NWDA), DCMS, Garfi eld Weston and a number 10 ATTRACTIONS of other trusts and foundations. The Grade II-listed museum is to undergo a £7m redevelopment Funding for Cardiff museum The improvement works will include the removal of the straight into the orientation The Experiment Gallery will Castle set for revamp metal ramps at the heart of the area, rather than through the be expanded during the 130-year-old, Grade II-listed coffee shop as at present. nine-month revamp and moved 11 COMMERCIAL building, a procedure which The entrance will be linked to from the second fl oor to a dedi- BAA wins appeal will free up more than 1,000sq the museum's new Revolution cated, purpose-built space on m (10,800sq ft) of space for Manchester gallery where some the fi rst fl oor. Four new Silverstone agrees loan exhibition and access purposes. of Manchester's leading classrooms will be constructed In this space, a new main inventions and objects will be to further develop the mu- 12 ARTS & CULTURE entrance will take visitors put on display. seum's educational programme. Opera plans on track Birkenhead Docks revamp plans submitted Banbury plans approved 13 PARKS & COUNTRYSIDE By Pete Hayman Northbank West, Marina View and Vittoria Studios. £11m HLF grant for parks An outline planning application Each area has been designed Yorkshire park to expand for the transformation of East by individual architects, such as Float, which forms the main Glenn Howells Architects, 16 PROPERTY section of the £4.5bn Wirral BroadwayMalyan, Skidmore, Waters regeneration project at Owings and Merrill, Allford Barracks architect named Birkenhead Docks, have been Hall Monaghan Morris and Canal project canned submitted to Wirral Council. HKR. Manchester-based developer Wirral Council leader Steve 17 PROPERTY/TENDERS Peel is leading the mixed-use The waterside scheme is based Foulkes said: "This is a scheme, which covers a 1.4 on fi ve individual districts signifi cant step in our vision to 18 TOURISM million sq m (15 million sq ft) regenerate Wirral. It is area and will boast a range of homes, civic and community encouraging that even at a Funding boost for Ireland restaurants, cafés and bars, a buildings and green spaces are time of such economic Passenger increase reported hotel and conference centre also included in the plans, diffi culties we continue to make and cultural attractions. which comprises fi ve individual signifi cant progress towards the 19 TRAINING More than 13,500 new districts – SkyCity, Four Bridges, delivery of our strategy." Job boost for young people THE LEISURE MEDIA COMPANY PUBLISHES Cuts for universities

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IN BRIEF £15m leisure centre opens in Banbury Southampton Council Cherwell District Council opens Spiceball Leisure Centre ahead of schedule to sell off facilities Southampton City Council is By Pete Hayman planning to lease its loss-making leisure facilities to private Cherwell District Council (CDC) operators for 15 years. The has opened the new £15m sports pitches at Mayfield Park, Spiceball Leisure Centre in Riverside Park, Green Park, Banbury, Oxfordshire, which Hoglands Park and the Veracity, has been completed on budget Lordshill and Millbrook ahead of schedule. recreation grounds could be Initially due to open in offloaded, as could leases of land January 2010, the new centre at the Alpine Centre, the replaces the former Spiceball municipal golf course, Park Leisure Centre and forms Southampton Sports Centre and part of a wider sports centre Chamberlayne Leisure Centre. modernisation programme in The centre boasts a 150-station gym and an eight-court sports hall the local area, which is being Health club admits led by Cherwell Community an exercise and dance studio, Burke Rickhards architects. safety failures Leisure, a wholly owned a health suite including CDC's portfolio holder for Holmes Place Health Clubs has subsidiary of Parkwood Project spa, sauna and steamroom environment, recreation and admitted breaking health and Management. facilities, a soft play area and health, George Reynolds, said: safety laws following the death Facilities at Spiceball Leisure a meeting room also form part "Spiceball marks the culmination of a 32-year-old female customer Centre include a 150-station of the complex, along with of this investment and I'm sure at its City of London club in gym equipped by Precor, an wet and dry changing areas you'll appreciate how good the March 2003. Holmes Place eight-court sports hall with and a café. centre is when you visit. pleaded guilty to three charges spectator area, a six-lane, 25m Moss Construction, a "This has been a massive relating to the operation of a swimming pool and a 20m x subsidiary of the Bedfordshire- project for the council and our faulty lift. At a hearing in 10m training pool with based Kier Group, constructed gratitude should go to all those Southwark Crown Court, the moveable floor. Two squash the new complex, which was involved in it's completion early company admitted that it had courts, a multi-purpose studio, designed by Plymouth-based and within the agreed budget." allowed employees to enter the lift plant room and to operate New gym opens the lift machinery. The 32-year- £3m revamp for college centre old was crushed to death after in Wombwell being trapped between the A new gym has officially By Tom Walker faulty lift and the wall of the lift been opened at Wom- shaft. Holmes Place’s UK bwell Swimming Pool in The Manchester College is to operations were acquired by rival Barnsley by Olympic invest £3m in redeveloping the fitness chain Virgin Active in swimmer James Kirton. college's fitness and sport September 2006. The health and fitness facilities. The health and facility, which is managed fitness clubs at the college's UKFN appoints by Barnsley Premier Northenden and Moston board members Leisure, boasts a range of campuses have recently been A further four members have Technogym equipment refurbished with around been appointed as directors of and a dedicated free £100,000 being spent on The gym will be open to the UK Fitness Network (UKFN). weights room. 30 cv stations and resistance both students and the public The new directors are Steve Kirton, who had his first equipment supplied by Cybex. Ward from Greenwich Leisure, swimming lessons at The Northenden campus has including levelling the floor Peter King from Fusion, Karen Wombwell Swimming Pool also undergone substantial and adding a spa. Burrell from Freedom Leisure over 15 years ago, said: building work converting The opening of the fitness and Ken Leggate from Redbridge "This is just what Wom- workshops into a new fitness centres is the first phase of the Sports and Leisure. The quartet bwell needs and I am suite, as well as the creation of college's plans to improve the was elected at the UKFN's first looking forward to being a outdoor, multi use games provision of active leisure at the AGM in December, to able to use the facilities area. At Moston, the old gym, institution. Further plans help shape the strategic here myself." located in the basement of the include the redevelopment of direction of the organisation. building, has been refurbished the old Harpurhey Baths.

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Revamped gym opens at Horwich site Fitness suite at trust-operated centre includes 80 stations supplied by Life Fitness

By Pete Hayman

A extended fitness suite has opened to the public at Horwich Leisure Centre in Bolton, Lancashire, as part of a larger £250,000 refurbishment of the facility. Renovation work was undertaken by the Bolton Community Leisure Trust and Life Fitness, which has led to the creation of a 456sq m (5,005sq ft) gym boasting three The gym space has been created in the centre's former creche different spaces and 80 stations. A new entry-level gym space The second fitness space Vice-chair of the Bolton has been created in the centre's incorporates a wider range of Community Leisure Trust former crèche, which has been Life Fitness strength and CV Richard Saunders said: designed to cater for disability equipment, while the third area "Horwich Leisure Centre has groups, schools, junior clubs for more advanced members seen significant improvements and elderly people, as well as boasts an extended free over the last five years and offering cardiac rehabilitation weights area and a separate this new gym is another major programmes. personal training area. leap forward." %FWFMPQZPVS DBSFFSXJUI Trust invests in rehabilitation gym at Papworth 1SFNJFS5SBJOJOH By Tom Walker offers massages, reflexology and traditional physiotherapy. $PVSTFTJO Health care provider Papworth The Vocational Rehabilita- Trust has created a new gym at tion Department was originally 4UVEJP*OTUSVDUJPO its Vocational Rehabilitation funded by the government via .FEJDJOF#BMM Department in Papworth the Department of Work & 5SBJOJOH Everard, Cambridgeshire. Pensions but is now funded by The £40,000, 156sq m insurance claims. ,FUUMFCFMM (1,700sq ft) fitness suite has The process is part of the 5SBJOJOH been created by converting government's Rehabilitation two unused office spaces and The facility boasts 14 stations Code, which ensures access -PX#BDL1BJO includes 14 exercise stations to rehabilitation services /VUSJUJPO supplied by Cybex, the Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI). without affecting the outcome 4QPSUT majority of which have been Other facilities include a of the insurance claim for the credited at Stage 2 by the physiotherapy room which injured party. $POEJUJPOJOH $PSF4UBCJMJUZ Council backs £12m wellbeing centre designs BOENBOZNPSF

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council facility, which will boast a 25m, eight-lane has approved William Saunders Partnership's swimming pool, a learner pool, an 80-station DPVSTFT!QSFNJFSHMPCBMDPVL designs for a new £12m health and wellbeing ﬁtness suite and a health suite. XXXQSFNJFSHMPCBMDPVL centre on a site next to the town's existing Dance studios, a climbing wall, wet and dry Jubilee Pool facility. changing facilities and multi-purpose areas also The Newark-based architects were appointed form part of the proposed centre, which is by the council to draw up plans for the new scheduled to open in 2011.

IN BRIEF Active People survey results unveiled Beckham academy set Sport England figures show steady increase in sports participation figures to close London site David Beckham's football By Tom Walker academy is set to leave its permanent base in Greenwich, Nearly 7 million adults across London, at the end of the year in England participated in sport at order to adopt a mobile coaching least three times a week model designed to reach between October 2008 and communities across the UK. October 2009, according to the The David Beckham Football Active People Survey 3 Academy, which opened in 2005, published by Sport England. boasts two full-size artificial The report revealed that six football pitches, changing rooms, sports are currently meeting a dining hall and classrooms, as their targets for the first year of well as a medical centre. However, the funding initiative, with site owner AEG Europe said that cycling and athletics reporting a Football is among the sports that saw participation fall last year it was "very likely" the academy combined increase of more than will now look to provide coaching 240,000 weekly participants. However, despite being tion among disabled people on a mobile basis with the lease Meanwhile, boxing, table among the four sports that and women is also down. on the Greenwich facility due to tennis, canoeing and netball are already attract at least one The study claims that Sport expire in 2010. also meeting their respective million adults participating England is close to achieving targets. Tennis is also poised to once a week, football and its target of getting 1 million Crusaders confirm meet its target, following a swimming both failed to report more people participating in Wrexham FC move surge in participation due to the any growth in participation in sport as part of the 2012 Super League club Crusaders Wimbledon championships. the past year, while participa- legacy plans. Rugby League (CRL) has announced that Wrexham's Racecourse Ground is to be its Barnet FC opens new Edgware training complex new permanent home ground after the Bridgend-based club By Tom Walker and built by main contractor, was acquired by Wrexham Village the Buckingham Group, the Ltd (WVL). WVL – owner of Blue England manager Fabio Capello new training complex boasts Square Premier team Wrexham has officially launched Barnet two full-size artificial turf Football Club, will take control of Football Club's (BFC) new pitches and natural grass the rugby league club with 44-acre (17.8-hectare) training pitches built by Kestrel. immediate effect, following complex in Edgware, London, Kestrel worked alongside discussions between CRL's former which will host the club's new sports pitch consultants owner Leighton Samuel and the Centre of Excellence. TurfTrax and Surfacing football club. The Hive, which will also be Standards on the construction home to the club's first team The centre in Edgware, London of the natural pitches at the Feel Good Factory for squad and ladies' team, has £11m venue, which also Haslingden centre been funded by BFC, along £1m grant from the Football includes 14 changing rooms Haslingden Sports Centre in with a £750,000 contribution Foundation. Designed by and a physiotherapy room, as Lancashire has opened a Feel from Harrow Council and a Battersea-based And Architects well as office areas. Good Factory boasting £50,000 of toning table equipment. The new facility was installed for free Wakefield Wildcats stadium plans unveiled thanks to a partnership between Alliance Leisure and Shapemaster, Plans are set to be submitted to Wakefield Council for a new 12,000-capacity community stadium and works on an income share in West Yorkshire, which will be the home of the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats rugby league team. basis, where the facility retains The proposals were unveiled by the chair of the Wakefield and District Community Trust, Sir the initial income up to a certain Rodney Walker, on 21 December and will see the stadium form part of a wider mixed-use scheme level, before a sharing mechanism near to Junction 30 of the M62. Although the stadium will initially be capable of accommodating kicks in. The Haslingden 12,000 spectators, it will have the potential to expand to a capacity of 15,000 people and will installation is the second Feel replace the Wildcats' Belle Vue ground. Good Factory in the UK.

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World Cup 2018 candidate cities named IN BRIEF England bid team names candidate cities for 2018 FIFA Football World Cup BPL takes over four Notts centres By Pete Hayman Sports trust Barnsley Premier Leisure (BPL) is to take over the London, Birmingham, Leeds management of four leisure and Manchester have been facilities in Nottinghamshire confirmed as being among the following an agreement with 12 candidate host cities that will Bassetlaw District Council. The be included in England's bid to move will increase BPL's stage the 2018 World Cup. portfolio by a third, to 16 sites, Other cities selected for as it takes over the operation of England's 2018 bid include the Bircotes, Retford and Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Worksop Leisure Centres and Newcastle, Bristol, Sunderland, Kilton Forest Golf Course. BPL Nottingham and Plymouth. invested more than £500,000 in The candidate host cities Wembley headlines the proposed venues for the 2018 World Cup upgrading and refurbishing its have contributed more than venues during 2009. £300m in financial guarantees agencies, local authorities, being included in the World towards hosting the World Cup sports governing bodies, school Cup bid. Fleming Park set for if England's bid is successful, boards, Premier League and The final list was was decided new tennis courts complementing a further Football League clubs and by a technical panel comprising Four new outdoor tennis courts commitment of more than non-league football have all the chair of the Football are set to be created at £100m towards legacy and formed part of the selection League, Lord Mawhinney, bid Eastleigh's Fleming Park Leisure regeneration projects. process. chief executive Andy Anson Centre in Hampshire, as part of a A variety of stakeholders, Three cities – Leicester, Hull and chief operating officer scheme to increase participation including regional development and Derby – missed out on Simon Johnson. in the sport. Construction work on the project will get underway Plans published this month and will establish the UK Sport reveals 2012 funding centre as a community tennis for Derby hubs centre, which will double the Derby City Council (DCC) is number of existing tennis courts to consider a report that and also includes the addition of recommends the creation a clubhouse. Eastleigh Borough of a regional £50m sporting Council and the Lawn Tennis hub, consisting of two Association are working in separate centres. partnership with Fleming Park DCC commissioned operator DC Leisure to jointly- sports consultancy PMP/ fund the scheme, which is due genesis to evaluate the for completion in spring 2010. city's sport facilities and make recommendations Handball is one of the sports to benefit from increased funding Sports development on how to improve the funding hit by cuts provision of sport. By Tom Walker process, with 11 of the 12 Vale of White Horse District The report by PMP/ sports that missed out on 'full' Council in Oxfordshire has genesis revealed the An additional £13m of funding Olympic funding last year now announced that funding for current facilities to be has been made available to having their allocation doubled. sports development will be outdated and "no longer help Great Britain's Olympic Handball, fencing, shooting reduced by a third in 2010-11 as capable of meeting the and Paralympic athletes and volleyball are among part of efforts to cut expenditure modern demands and prepare ahead of the 2012 the 11 sports to benefit from by £1m a year. According to the expectations". London Games, following a the funding increase, which council, the level of funding for The report recommends review by elite performance was made available by an sports development will be the creation of two leisure agency UK Sport. initial £6.5m through credit reduced from £150,000 to hubs and that the outdoor Revised investment figures card company's Visa's sponsor- £50,000 as it is not considered to hub should house a 250m for all funded sports have been ship of Team 2012 and a be a priority, although most of indoor cycling velodrome. unveiled by the agency after a further £6.5m due to adjusted the savings are expected to come comprehensive annual review inflation levels. through improved efficiency.

IN BRIEF £100m property fund for Travelodge Droitwich operator Budget operator unveils large development fund to benefit from weak market enters receivership The Impney Group, the By Tom Walker Droitwich-based operator of two Worcestershire hotel and Budget hotel chain Travelodge conference centres, has been has affirmed plans to further placed into administrative expand its UK portfolio after receivership after running into announcing the launch of a financial difficulties. Both the new £100m development fund Chateau Impney and the Raven in partnership with Twenty10 Hotel are expected to continue Fund Management. trading as normal after the The new fund – the second appointment of Kim Rayment and unveiled by Travelodge in a Toby Underwood from business year – is designed to allow the restructuring firm BDO as joint development of five hotels in receivers of the company. London and other major UK The fund is the second such initiative in the past six months A business review has been cities each year, which will then carried out, resulting in the loss be leased to the chain on 25-35 The fund will be led by Harvey, said: "This fund will of 45 jobs at the Impney Group. year deals. Twenty20 chair Christopher ensure that we keep our foot It is expected that the fund Stainforth, and will be financed firmly on the accelerator pedal East Anglian hotel firm will aim to develop new hotels using £50m of equity and in our UK growth drive." enters administration as both standalone sites and as £50m of bank debt. Travelodge In June 2009, Travelodge Elizabeth Hotels, the Ipswich- part of mixed-use schemes, will contribute £500,000 established a £100m joint based operator of pubs and hotels enabling Travelodge to expand towards the fund. venture with Meghraj Proper- across the East Anglian region, its presence in city centres Travelodge's managing ties in a bid to capitalise on the has been placed into across Britain. director of development, Paul weak property market. administration. On 8 December, Allan Graham and Jane Moriarty Hoteliers facing of KPMG were appointed as joint Whitbread buoyed by Q3 figures administrators of the Elizabeth tough times Estates, Elizabeth Hotels and UK hotel operators Cavendish Hotels businesses, continued to encounter which include 14 mid-range tough trading conditions hotels and 13 pubs. A further in the run up to the four hotels operated by the Christmas period, companies will continue to trade according to preliminary as normal outside of the figures for October and administration. November released by PKF Hotel Consultancy Transaction volume Services. to increase in 2010 London hoteliers Costa Coffee was among the top performers for Whitbread Global hotel transaction volume reported a 1.6 per cent will increase by 20 to 40 per cent decrease in average room By Tom Walker increase in total sales. Like-for- in 2010, it has been predicted. rate during the two- like sales at Costa Coffee were Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels’ Hotel month period, compared UK hotel and restaurant also up by 6.7 per cent. Investment Outlook 2010 report with 2008 figures. operator Whitbread expects its Total sales for the 39 weeks forecasts that as a number of Regional hotel operators full-year results to beat market to 26 November 2009 grew by hotel markets reach their bottom, too are facing difficult estimates after posting a 6.7 4.3 per cent, which led chief worldwide transaction levels conditions, having per cent increase in total sales executive officer Alan Parker to will increase to US$11-13bn. reported decreases in for the third quarter, compared predict the group will "some- Arthur de Haast, global CEO of average room rate (7.8 with the same period last year. what exceed the top end of Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, said: per cent), occupancy (3.5 During the third quarter of market estimates". “Across the world, the trading of per cent) and rooms yield 2009-10, coffee shop chain Parker said: "Our expansion single hotel assets, mostly (11.1 per cent), compared Costa Coffee continued to programme has made further valued at up to US$100m, will with November last year. perform strongly after progress in both Premier Inn initiate the recovery." reporting a 20.7 per cent and pub restaurants."

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The case for reducing VAT – is there one? Measures that encourage investment still offer the most beneﬁcial impact for industry

With the general election only a few months away, questions are Dbeing raised about the measures that a new government could introduce that would improve the prospects of Pre-tax profits at the chain fell from £5.6m n 2008 to £3m in 2009 the hospitality industry. One of the most persistent is a reduction in VAT Carluccio's profits hit by costs on either hotel accommodation or restaurant meals or both. We need to Italian chain maintains plans to open five new sites approach this cautiously. Certainly, there is strong evidence By Tom Walker cent to £4.7m Carluccio's that tourism is looked upon more BOB COTTON is expanded its portfolio over favourably in other EU countries than chief executive of London-based Italian restaurant the past year with the opening in the UK. The vast majority already the BHA. Leisure chain Carluccio's has blamed of six stores, including its first imposes a lower rate for hotel Opportunities is a increased operating costs in the Middle East and a accommodation or will shortly. France, member benefit of and the weak pound for a second under franchise, Spain and Italy, three of Britain’s major the BHA, for your 46 per cent decline in profits while plans are still in place tourism competitors have had a lower free copy call for the year ending 27 to deliver at least five new VAT rate on hotel accommodation for 01462 471915 September 2009. sites in 2010 - including Cardiff many years. Far fewer have introduced Statutory pre-tax profits and Wimbledon, London. a lower rate for restaurant meals. decreased from £5.6m to £3m The company's executive chair But would a cut in UK VAT to, say, five per cent help generate compared with the previous Stephen Gee said: "Despite the stronger home demand? Some put forward the argument that it year, although the company challenging economic environ- would increase demand and raise turnover, thus increasing the did see an 8 per cent increase ment, our business has total tax take. This, however, is difficult to sustain. Turnover in turnover during the performed robustly, delivering would need to rise significantly to remain even revenue-neutral 12-month period and currently an adjusted profit before tax to the Treasury – an unlikely development in the present remains debt-free. Adjusted slightly ahead of consensus economic situation. profit before tax fell by 16 per market expectations. At present – and for the foreseeable future – the low value of sterling against the Euro and dollar is a much greater factor in lowering prices to overseas visitors than any realistic cut in Task team to tackle underpayments VAT. In any case, any cut in VAT would not affect UK corporate business which comprises 20 per cent of domestic spend in HM Revenue and Customs paying below the minimum hotels. If the industry is to argue for a cut in VAT it has to (HMRC) has created a new wage – something relatively answer a number of questions: what are the overall benefits to group to prevent employers commonplace in the the industry, how much of the cut would be passed onto the from underpaying staff, hospitality industry. consumer, how much would demand increase, what is the cost particularly in the hospitality In fact, the hospitality to the Treasury, and what is the likely impact on jobs? So far, industry. industry was singled out in we have no precise answers. The Dynamic Response HMRC’s press release One thing, however, is certain: investment remains critical. Team will work on the most regarding the scheme. Since So would not the hospitality industry have a better case if it high profile and complicated last April, the HMRC has argued that any changes in the tax laws should be used not to National Minimum Wage helped around 14,000 try to stimulate demand through VAT cuts but should (NMW) cases faced by HMRC, workers recoup more than encourage businesses to grow by more investment? particularly where employers £3m in wage arrears, and There is a powerful argument that any measure that are using migrant labour to £640,000 of this was in the encouraged investment would have a much longer lasting and undercut competitors by hospitality sector alone. more beneficial impact on hospitality businesses than a reduction in VAT.

IN BRIEF Cardiff Museum project nets funding Devon beach site for Cardiff's Old Library to be transformed into museum by £440,000 Lottery grant new surfing museum Trustees of the proposed By Pete Hayman Museum of British Surfing have confirmed that they are in talks Plans to develop a new museum with the Christie Estate over the at the site of Cardiff's Grade possibility of developing a II*-listed Old Library, which permanent home for the explores the history of the attraction at a North Devon Welsh capital city, have been beach. A site close to Saunton awarded £440,000 by the Sands has been earmarked for Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). the new museum, which has The grant will go towards the received approval for two first stage of opening the development grants totalling Cardiff Story attraction, which more than £33,000 from the will be based around 8,000 Dan Clayton-Jones (right) at the Old Library with Dr Kathleen Leader 4 initiative and the North exhibits stored by the National Howe, museum manager, and councillor Nigel Howells Devon Area of Outstanding Museum Wales since the Natural Beauty's sustainable closure of the city's last gallery, as well as an interactive success of the temporary development fund. dedicated museum in 1924. history lab and learning suite exhibitions staged at the Old Artefacts depicting the city's with classrooms and group Library proved there is a real 'Harry Potter station' maritime, industrial and social activity spaces in the basement demand for the story of Cardiff secures HLF funding history will be put on show at for use by school and commu- and its people to be told." DA West Highland railway the new museum and will be nity groups. The first phase of work on station featured in two Harry interpreted through digital Dan Clayton-Jones, chair of the Cardiff Story is expected to Potter films has been handed stories and interactive exhibits the HLF committee for Wales, cost £2.4m and is scheduled to £195,000 by the Heritage in order to help bring the story said: "Cardiff is one of the few be completed in November Lottery Fund towards work to of Cardiff to life. major cities without a dedi- 2010. The Old Library building improve the site as a visitor HLF funding will go towards cated museum and we wanted itself has already undergone attraction. Glenfinnan Station part of a new ground floor to help correct that. The restoration work. Museum will use the investment to allow visitors to experience the atmosphere of the station Work underway on Mary Rose Dorset castle set during the late Victorian period, for major revamp while also providing information By Pete Hayman on the history of the West A major scheme to repair and Highland Line. Many of the Demolition work has started on restore Sandsfoot Castle in station's artefacts – including the Mary Rose Ship Hall in Weymouth, Dorset, has been pieces of furniture, trolleys and Portsmouth, Hampshire, which handed a boost after the original rolling stock – are is making way for the develop- Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) currently in storage due to the ment of a new £35m museum approved a development grant poor condition of the building. dedicated to the historic warship. towards a survey of the site. The ship itself at Portsmouth The £23,100 first-round pass Orange Order to Historic Dockyard was with- will allow the Friends of open visitor centres drawn from public view on 20 The attraction will reopen Rodwell Trail and Weymouth Two new museums are set to be September to allow work to to the public in 2012 and Portland Borough Council created – one in Belfast and one start, which will see a boat- (WPBC) to establish how much in Loughall – under plans shaped museum building built on the same level as the ship's work is needed to stabilise the unveiled by the Orange Order to over the dry dock containing main deck. castle and make it safe for examine the history of the the Mary Rose. The Heritage Lottery Fund public access. organisation in Northern Ireland. A team including architects has contributed a total of £21m A full survey of the castle, An application has been filed at Wilkinson Eyre has designed towards the scheme, while a including a laser scan of the the European Funding Programme the new attraction, which will special programme of events building and the cliff face, is set to help fund the £4m scheme, imitate a section of the Mary and activities will be provided to be completed by May 2010 which will create museums at Rose's missing port side and for the duration of the before being submitted along Schomberg House in Belfast and will enable visitors to view construction process due for with a conservation and Sloan's House in Loughall. artefacts from galleries located completion in 2012. management plan.

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BAA triumphs in airport sale appeal IN BRIEF Tribunal sides with airport owner on accusations of Competition Commission "bias" Orchid completes Premium deal By Pete Hayman a Independent pub and restaurant group, Orchid, has BAA has succeeded in its appeal completed the acquisition of 43 against a order to sell off three sites previously operated by of its UK airports, after a Premium Bars & Restaurants, tribunal agreed that the which entered administration Competition Commission (CC) earlier this year. The deal will had been influenced by "bias" increase the number of in its original ruling. properties within the Orchid In March, the commission portfolio to 292. The acquisition ordered the airport operator to includes The Living Room and sell off Gatwick, Stansted and Prohibition brands and a either Edinburgh or Glasgow in workforce of more than 1,500 the interests of passengers and Stansted airport, one of the airports placed on BAA's "selling list" people. The deal is part of airlines, although the BAA Orchid's strategy of acquiring appealed the decision on the Group (MAG) – a potential whether BAA should be forced distressed assets and the second grounds that the commission bidder for BAA assets. to sell Stansted and either such deal this year after Orchid had not been impartial in its According to the CAT Edinburgh or Glasgow, with the took over Bar Room Bar – inquiry. The Competition judgement, a "fair-minded" Spanish-owned operator having another group in administration. Appeals Tribunal (CAT) ruled observer would see a "real already offloaded Gatwick to "unanimously" in favour of possibility" of bias due to Global Infrastructure Partners Second tax victory BAA's claim that Professor Peter Moizer's involvement, with in October irrespective of the for Rank Group Moizer's inclusion as part of the MAG wholly owned by the 10 CC ruling. Bingo hall and casino operator inquiry team had led to local authorities of Greater A BAA spokesperson said: Rank Group has won a second "apparent bias" due to his role Manchester, which governs the "We are pleased that the case against HM Revenue and as an advisor to the Greater Greater Manchester Pension Competition Appeal Tribunal Customs after a tribunal ruled Manchester Pension Fund, Fund. Both sides will now be upheld our appeal on the that the company was entitled linked to Manchester Airports given more time to discuss grounds of apparent bias." to a VAT refund totalling nearly £26m. According to the VAT and Council secures Duties Tribunal, HM Revenue Silverstone receives £10m loan and Customs breached European Bluestone stake Union rules on fiscal neutrality Pembrokeshire County By Pete Hayman due to different levels of VAT Council has confirmed that applied to jackpot and other it has been granted an Northamptonshire County similar machines. equity share in the Council (NCC) is set to provide Bluestone eco-resort as a £10m loan to help fund 888.com confirms part of a financial major improvement work at Wink Bingo acquisition restructuring at the South Silverstone after it was Online gaming and Wales holiday village. confirmed the venue will entertainment company 888. Situated near Narberth remain as the home of the com has reached an agreement in the centre of Pembroke- British Formula One Grand Prix. The track will undergo a with Daub to acquire the Wink shire Coast National Park, Earlier this month, the motor complete redevelopment Online Bingo business in a deal the £110m Bluestone racing circuit and the British worth up to £60m. The eco-resort opened in Racing Drivers' Club secured a and paddock complex and the acquisition, which includes the August 2008 and boasts a deal with Formula One council's cabinet has now Wink Bingo, Posh Bingo and fitness centre, a spa, a supremo Bernie Ecclestone to agreed in principle to help Bingo Fabulous networks, forms sports club and waterpark. retain the right to stage the fund the scheme in order to part of the Gibraltar-based Last month, the resort British leg of the Formula One allow work to get underway. firm's efforts to expand further announced it had secured World Championship for a NCC leader Jim Harker said: into the UK online bingo around £10m of new further 17 years. "The Grand Prix attracted 9,000 market. Wink Bingo posted investment to fund the However, the deal is subject visitors last year, with a total of pre-tax profits of £1.3m and next stage of development. to Silverstone undertaking a £44.4m being spent in the revenues of £15m for the 11 major redevelopment of the pit county as a result of the event." months to 30 November 2009.

IN BRIEF Manchester's opera plans 'on track' Lottery award for Trustees of £100m opera scheme reach agreement with directors of The Lowry Leicestershire museum The Snibston Discovery Park By Tom Walker and Museum in Leicestershire has been awarded an £80,000 grant Efforts to establish a new north- from Arts Council England (ACE). ern base for the Royal Opera The monies will be used to fund House at Manchester's Palace the Transform project, which Theatre have taken a step consists of four new outdoor forward after officials reached visual art installations being an agreement with trustees of added to the grounds of the park The Lowry arts centre. between January 2010 and July Lowry trustees had opposed 2011. According to Tina Smith, the £100m scheme on the regional partnership officer at grounds that it could have a ACE, the project will "animate negative impact on the city's and enliven" the museum and existing arts provision and It's feared the opera would have a negative effect on existing sites country park. threaten the long-term viability of the Salford centre, which producing theatre, as well as MCC leader, Richard Leese Green light for Banbury opened in 2000. hosting opera and concerts. said: "Creating Royal Opera cultural proposals However, the Royal Opera The Lowry will continue to be House Manchester (ROHM) will Plans for the development of a House (ROH) and Manchester the North West's regional base consolidate the region's new Cultural Quarter in Banbury, City Council (MCC) have now for lyric theatre under the position as a leading creative Oxfordshire, have moved to the struck a deal with The Lowry, proposals, with a core pro- economy. ROHM will be a next stage after Cherwell District which will see the Palace gramme of theatre, ballet and major production centre for Council submitted a planning Theatre mainly act as a dance from across the world. world class performances." application. The local authority has resolved to invest £60,000 to move the plans forward, following Council secures funding for £4m Scarborough Spa months of discussions with Oxfordshire County Council and By Tom Walker The Spa's sun court, buffet the Mill Management Committee bar and caretaker's cottage will over the scheme. The proposals Work on a multi-million pound all be revamped, while the include the development of a new scheme to transform Scarbor- grand hall will benefit from library, the refurbishment of the ough's spa complex into a new additional backstage areas, new Mill theatre and a new public entertainment venue is set to lift pits, an improved dance open space and a restaurant. start in January 2010 after floor and an extended stage, as receiving a £4m funding boost well as a renovated foyer. Jerwood Gallery from Yorkshire Forward. SBC cabinet member for proposals approved Scarborough Borough strategic planning, Derek Plans for the development of a Council (SBC) confirmed that The spa will be redeveloped Bastiman, said: "This important new contemporary arts venue in the regional development funding from Yorkshire Hastings, East Sussex, to house agency has approved the the Grade II-listed building Forward will allow us to move the Jerwood Foundation's financial support for the undergo a major upgrade of its forward with a significant collection of 20th and 21st redevelopment, which will see interior facilities. development scheme." century British art, have been given the green light. Hastings Borough Council approved John Peel arts centre plans move forward planning permission for the Jerwood Gallery, which will act as Plans for the transformation of a former town the John Peel Centre for Community, Innova- a regional venue for the hall in Birkenhead, Merseyside, into a new tion and the Creative Arts, which is set to foundation's Visual Arts community arts centre dedicated to the include a theatre and studio space. programme. Designed by memory of late broadcaster John Peel have Arts workshops, an academy, the John Peel architects HAT Projects, the taken a step forward. archive and a business and enterprise centre scheme is set to boast 500sq m Wirral Council has invited The Hamilton are also included in the proposals, as well as (5,382sq ft) of gallery space, a Partnership to submit a full business case for providing space for weddings and conferences. sculpture courtyard and a café.

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HLF earmarks funding for 11 parks IN BRIEF Urban parks to use cash boost for major redevelopment works across the UK New community woodland for Southport By Pete Hayman A new £1.78m community woodland has been unveiled by Victoria Gardens in Neath, the Forestry Commission in South Wales, is set to benefit Southport, Lancashire, which has from new visitor facilities after transformed two former landfill the Heritage Lottery Fund sites as part of the wider (HLF) awarded £1.39m towards Newlands partnership. The a major renovation of the Northwest Regional Development Grade II-listed park. Agency provided funding A further 10 UK parks – in- towards the scheme. A new cluding Forty Hall Park in viewing platform overlooking Enfield, London; Haddo the West Pennine Moors, Country Park in Ellon, Ab- Southport Mosses and Blackpool erdeenshire and Cwmdonkin Haddo County Park in Ellon was among the parks to get funding Tower has been created as part Park, Swansea – have netted of the 26-hectare (64-acre) first-round passes to draw up National Eisteddfod of Wales. Cwmdonkin Park has woodland. It is anticipated that a detailed proposals for a Forty Hall Park has received received more than £19,000 cycle trail, a mountain bike skills confirmed funding award. £100,000 to help develop its development funding, which course and new wildlife habitats Built in 1897 to provide open bid for a £1.3m grant towards a will go towards restoring one of will also be created. space for the town's expanding conservation and restoration the oldest municipal parks in population, Neath's Victoria scheme, while Haddo Country Wales. Cyfarthfa Park in Yorkshire canal Gardens boasts a bandstand Park has been handed initial Merthyr Tydfil received £1.93m heritage deal struck and a circle of Gorsedd stones support worth £93,500 in its after being handed a first- British Waterways (BW) has – a set of standing stones bid to secure £993,500 towards round pass towards a scheme announced that it has reached an constructed for the 1918 a makeover of the park. to restore the parkland. agreement with English Heritage and East Riding of Yorkshire Council to secure the future of Views sought over Yorkshire park extension plans historical structures along the Pocklington Canal. It is hoped the By Pete Hayman Heritage Partnership Agreement will improve the management of Natural England has launched a structures along the canal by new three-month public using BW's existing policies and consultation to gather com- principles to increase the ments on proposed extensions standard of repair works. The deal to the Lake District and will run for a five-year period and Yorkshire Dales National Parks. provides the potential for a The independent natural further five-year spell beyond environment advisory body 2014 to preserve the canal. aims to determine whether the areas earmarked for inclusion Woodland search within the respective park engine to drive tourism boundaries display the The plans would expand the size of the two National Parks The Woodland Trust is to necessary qualities for National launch a searchable online Park status. District National Park include events will be held to raise database of more than 24,000 Areas set to be incorporated Birkbeck Fells to Whinfell and awareness. publicly accessible woods as part into the Yorkshire Dales Helsington Barrows to Sizergh Poul Christensen, Natural of plans to increase visitor National Park include Firbank Fell and the Lyth Valley. England chair, said: "It is fitting numbers at the sites. Called Fell, Northern Howgill Fells, The consultation, scheduled that, 60 years since the National VisitWoods, the project has Mallerstang and Wild Boar Fell, to run between mid-December Parks Act came into being, we received £1.2m worth of funding Middleton, Barbon and Leck 2009 and mid-March 2010, will have a unique opportunity to from the Natural England's Fells and Lower Lune Valley and feature a questionnaire look at a major expansion of Access to Nature scheme. The adjacent fells. Meanwhile, sites available both online and as a two of England's most cherished service is expected to go online poised for inclusion in the Lake paper copy, while a series of protected areas." in Autumn 2010.

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cation Questionnaire and www.leisureproperty.com is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) FACILITIES, COLERAINE FACILITIES, FOR SELECT TENDER LIST SELECT TENDER FOR cation questionnaire should arrive no later than 12 Noon on than 12 no later cation questionnaire should arrive cation questionnaire, obtainable from the address below, cation questionnaire, obtainable the address below, from cation questionnaire from: COMMUNITY STADIUM AND LEISURE COMMUNITY STADIUM INVITATION INVITATION FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY TECHNICAL STUDY PRELIMINARY Management & Operation of Management & Operation Blandford Leisure Centre NORTH DORSET DISTRICT COUNCIL from suitable leisure management contractors including existing NPDOs and private sector operators to enter into a contract to manage and operate the existing dual-use Blandford Leisure Centre. The Council wishes to expedite the letting of this contract as soon as possible. The contract will Guaranteed funding exists up until the end of March 2013. need to be co-terminus with this date although it is hoped that it will be extended beyond that date, subject to future funding. The Council considers that the existing staff at the leisure facilities will transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations under the Transfer Direction may Matters and Pensions (TUPE) and that the Code on Workforce will be discussed, but this option will be subject The option to second staff apply. to legal opinion. a Pre Qualifi must complete Partners Potential demonstrate a proven successful track record in delivering innovative ideally involving wet and dry dual-use partnerships with the public sector, leisure centres. The successful contractor will be selected through a formal tender process and/or via negotiation. Interested organisations can request an information pack and pre- qualifi Rutherford Strategic Leisure, 3rd Floor, Senior Consultant, Jon Carney, 6ZH. WA3 Warrington Road, Birchwood Science Park, House, Warrington 855 550 01925 Telephone: Email: [email protected] The closing date for the return of completed questionnaires is 12noon February 2010. Friday 11th Expressions of interest are invited from suitably experienced and qualifi ed and qualifi experienced suitably from invited are of interest Expressions companies or partnerships leadership contractual under the of companies, of carry The Council wishes to out a preliminary feasibility technical one company. in facilities leisure with together community stadium new a potential study for track, include athletics Coleraine, Northern may facilities The leisure Ireland. tness gyms. swimming pools, sports halls and fi assess the be undertaken is to study to The preliminary feasibility technical community stadium a comprehensive for nance parameters and capital fi technical Avenue and sports Rugby Council’s Coleraine Borough scheme on