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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
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
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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
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Tagged Birch, Birch (Selsdon), Cheshunt, Croydon, Hertfordshire, Lee Westcott, Selsdon, Selsdon Park Hotel
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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
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Tagged Birch, Birch (Selsdon), Cheshunt, Chris King, Croydon, Hertfordshire, Lee Westcott, Selsdon, Selsdon Park Hotel
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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
Selsdon Park Hotel prepares to reopen with recruitment fair
The Selsdon Park Hotel, once one of the leading country house hotels in Britain, is reopening early in 2023 as the second Birch Hotel, and the new management is staging a recruitment day next month. They have vacancies for receptionists, … Continue reading
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Lots of reservations after Selsdon hotel and golf course close
It was once considered among the country’s finest hotels, and thanks to a pre-election meeting staged there by Ted Heath, it gave the nation the expression ‘Selsdon Man’. But despite millions spent on refurbishments, the future of the Selsdon Park … Continue reading
