Category Archives: Birch (Selsdon)
Selsdon Park Hotel’s new owners hope to re-open by June 2027
EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES A £1billion property business has bought what was once known as the Selsdon Park Hotel, and is looking to re-open in 12- to 14-months’ time after a multi-million-pound refurb (yes, another one). The £200 per night … Continue reading
Very interesting: councillors often slow to update their registers
EXCLUSIVE: Our Town Hall number-cruncher, SANDRA STEAD, has checked out the updates to the register of interests of all 70 Croydon councillors and Mayor Perry – from 50p passion fruits to hundreds of pounds’ worth of free tickets to Selhurst … Continue reading
Administrators given further 12 months to sell Selsdon Park
Administrators Moorfields have been granted a further year to try to sell the former Selsdon Park Hotel. Birch Selsdon closed in November 2023 due to “cash constraints”, barely six months since it had re-opened as a boutique hipster resort charging … Continue reading
‘Strong interest’ expected as Selsdon hotel goes on the market
The former Selsdon Park Hotel and its 198-acre estate has been put up for sale through estate agents Savills less than two months since it went out of business as boutique hipster resort Birch Selsdon. The sale, on behalf of … Continue reading
2023 in Croydon – as told through our best-read articles
THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 1 – January to April The parlous state of the council’s finances would remain a thorny issue throughout the year, after Tory Mayor Jason Perry issued a Section 114 notice of his own in November … Continue reading
Selsdon’s Michelin star chef Westcott pledges to try again
Lee Westcott, the Michelin star-winning chef who headed up the restaurants at the failed Birch hotel in Selsdon, has expressed his determination to reopenat a new location. Administrators pulled the plug on Birch Selsdon hotel and members’ club last week, … Continue reading
100 to lose jobs as Selsdon Birch hotel closes its doors tonight
By STEVEN DOWNES Birch Selsdon, the former Selsdon Park Hotel which reopened earlier this year after an 18-month, multi-million makeover that transformed it into a “shabby chic” lifestyle venue with top-end, and expensive, restaurants, is to close its doors for … Continue reading
Administrators move in to run Selsdon’s ‘shabby chic’ hotel
Our business correspondent, ROBERT PESTER, reports on how Croydon’s poshest, hippest hotel with ‘a snag list as long as a novel’ has crashed and burned within six months of reopening Ambitious plans for a pricy members’ club, Michelin-style restaurants and … Continue reading
Mayor Perry accepted hundreds of pounds of gifts in first year
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Recently published declarations of interest from the borough’s elected Mayor show someone who enjoys a free lunch and just doesn’t know when to say ‘No’. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES There’s hardly an official opening or a charity … Continue reading
Get orf moy laaand! Posh hotel declares parkland a no-go zone
Michelin-starred chef to use foraged ingredients in Birch Selsdon’s two restaurants, as fences go up to keep local residents from walking their pooches across the former golf course The new owners of the luxury hotel that used to be known … Continue reading
New owners plan re-opening of Selsdon hotel for late March
What used to be known as the Selsdon Park Hotel, with its 200-acre golf course, is expected to open its doors to guests for the first time in more than a year at the end of March, with cattle and … Continue reading
