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Lingfield Park Hotel Development

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Lingfield Park, already boasting a new all-weather track and fully refurbished grandstand within the last five years, is now working to complete the regeneration of this famous racecourse into a magnificent state-of-the-art racing, conference and leisure destination with facilities to match or better any in the country.

The hotel developments are now well underway and consist of a 116 bedroom four star Marriott Hotel including an intergrated health club with pool, a replacement Golf Club House and improved racing hospitality facilities.

Works to the hotel site commenced, in early August, following completion of the demolition of numerous ancillary buildings to make way for the new hotel. The first exercise was to reduce the level of the ground to create the new level for the hotel, which consisted of removing in the region of 30,000 cubic metres of soil from the ground. All of this soil has been re-used elsewhere on site, saving the equivalent of 2,000 road trips of heavy lorries through Lingfield and the local area. Of the soil re-used on site, 21,000 cubic metres has been used to re-form the first two holes of the 18-hole golf course.

The redevelopment will also include improvements to vehicular and pedestrian access, enhanced facilities for horses and handlers, a new entrance building and the removal of numerous smaller buildings around the Racecourse. As a result, a sizeable area of currently developed land will be returned back to Green Belt and will dramatically improve the remaining areas of Lingfield Park.

To reduce the risk of this exciting project, the existing, separate site of the former leisure club adjacent to the Racecourse, and on which residential planning permission had previously been obtained, will be sold. As a result, the net cost of the hotel development is estimated at approximately £27m. Financing for the development has been secured in the form of a £23m term loan.

The hotel is anticipated to open in spring 2010. A franchise agreement has been signed with Marriott to operate the hotel under the Marriott Hotel & Country Club brand.


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