Olympic Hotel Gets OK

LEIGH'S Olympic hopes received a boost with news that the 135-room hotel at the Leigh Sports Village has been given the green light.

The announcement coincides with confirmation by the 2012 Olympic organisers that Leigh's application to be included as a training venue has been successfully logged.

Planning consent was given to Brussels-based Rezidor Hotel Group, who have signed up to build a mid-market Park Inn hotel on the 80-acre Pennington Park site.

The hotel, which is expected to open in 2008, will be the first Park Inn built by Rezidor in the north west of England and will include spa facilities and conference rooms.

Leigh MP Andy Burnham said: "The Sports Village project just goes from strength to strength.
"I really think it's going to put Leigh on the map and the hotel will offer something new to Leigh.
"Leigh has a very good chance of being in the brochure which is sent out to Olympic teams, showing them potential training facilities.
"The hotel will be a huge boost to that bid because the teams will have everything they could want on one site.
"A lot of people already come to the area to visit Pennington Flash and those numbers will certainly increase with the Bickershaw development."

Final phase
The hotel will also be able to cater for sports fans travelling to the new 10,000 capacity Leigh Stadium, which will be home to the Leigh Centurions Rugby League team and Leigh RMI football club.

It will be built as part of the final phase of the Sports Village complex, following the completion of the pool, stadium, running track and gym, and work is expected to start in early 2008.

It is one of the first of the commercial spaces to be filled at the Sports Village site and there are several retail units available near the hotel.

The 135 rooms will massively increase the number of beds currently on offer to Leigh visitors.

Taken from leightoday.net

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