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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
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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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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Selsdon Park’s golfing paradise looks lost under new owners
It is looking very likely that the last 18-hole round of golf at Selsdon Park was played some time at the end of 2021. The new owners of the Selsdon Park Hotel and its accompanying 200 acres of parkland released … Continue reading
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
