Peel Hotels plc is a hotel company operating in the United Kingdom. It operates eight hotels and is listed on the
AIM.
The company was founded in 1998 by Robert Peel, when he bought the
Bull Hotel in
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
. Since that date, the company has acquired other notable hotels, such as the famous
Midland Railway Hotel in
Bradford
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, and the
King Malcolm Hotel in
Dunfermline
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.
Recently the company has demised a 25-year
lease
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to
Clermont Leisure, owners of the prestigious
Clermont Club
The Clermont Set was an exclusive group of rich British gamblers who met at the Clermont Club, originally at 44 Berkeley Square, in London's fashionable Mayfair district. It closed in March 2018 and re-opened in 2022. Clermont Club is now tempora ...
casino
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in London, to open a casino in the basement of the
Midland Hotel, taking advantage of the
Gambling Act 2005
The Gambling Act 2005 (2005 c 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It mainly applies to England and Wales, and to Scotland, and is designed to control all forms of gambling. It transfers authority for licensing gambling from t ...
permitting new casino-hotels. The new hotel will be called the Guoman Club and will be the third casino in the city, which will effectively join the new
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being built adjacent to the hotel. This lease, together with the recent disposal of land to the north of the Midland site to developers and the disposal of the
Avon Gorge Hotel in Bristol, has left the hotel group debt-free.
sport-kit.net story details: Peel Hotels sells Avon Gorge for £15.5m
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References
Hotel chains in the United Kingdom
Companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market
Hotel and leisure companies based in London
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