Work starts on £4.9 million Quorn Grange improvements
ALMOST £5 million is being spent adding 24 new rooms to a county hotel.
Work has started on a £4.9 million hotel extension and improvements at the Quorn Grange Hotel, near Loughborough.
A construction team from J Tomlinson is building the new rooms as well as expanding the function room, creating new meeting facilities and converting existing space into offices.
It is also building 10 new houses on the hotel site, which is owned by the GFTU – General Federation of Trade Unions – Educational Trust.
The hotel is set in nine acres of grounds and is used as a wedding venue, for business conferences and meetings, as well as for leisure stays.
It is also a popular venue for GFTUaffiliated trade unions and their members.
GFTU Education Trust secretary Doug Nicholls said: “We are very pleased that this scheme at Quorn Grange Hotel has now started.
“J Tomlinson is a well-regarded East Midlands-based company, which impressed us during the tender process, and we are delighted to be working with the construction team to improve and extend the facilities at the hotel, as well as create more local housing.
“Companies, guests and charities who use our facilities have requested that we expand, so we are.
“The hotel is in great demand and this development will allow us to offer additional high quality teaching and meeting rooms and function spaces.
“The whole scheme is a significant investment in the area, helping to create new jobs and improved amenities for the community.
“The new-build programme is on a concealed part of the site, and we have liaised closely with J Tomlinson to ensure that the work will not disturb activities at the hotel or interrupt any of the award-winning landscaped garden views.
“In fact, it is not just going to be business as usual during the new build, but more business than usual.”
Martin Gallagher, managing director of construction at J Tomlinson, said: “Quorn Grange Hotel is an award-winning historic hotel and J Tomlinson is very pleased to be playing a key role in helping the hotel to open the latest chapter in its history.
“We are experienced in working at operational sites and fully understand the importance of businesses and organisations being able to continue to offer their services.
“In conjunction with the hotel and the GFTU, we have developed a programme to cause minimum disruption, as we undertake the exciting redevelopment and extension of the facilities on site.”