Radical refurb planned for Lansdowne Place Hotel in Hove

12:00pm Friday 14th September 2012 in News By Neil Vowles

Radical refurb planned for Lansdowne Place Hotel in Hove Radical refurb planned for Lansdowne Place Hotel in Hove

A 150-year-old hotel is set to undergo a dramatic seven figure refurbishment.

The Lansdowne Place Hotel in Hove will undergo a radical transformation which will see the hotel’s existing 84 rooms transformed into 60 suites.

David Glover, director of Max Apartments, said the hotel would be transformed in an “extensive refurbishment” to create the first facility of its kind in the city.

Most of the newly-created rooms at the hotel, builtin 1854, will be two-bedroom suites with additional living space.

Mr Glover said that the idea was still in the “gestation period” with details of total costs and likely finishing date to be finalised later. He said the new look would be designed to appeal to both family visitors and corporate guests.

The restaurant will close with the loss of some staff but the hotel will retain chefs on site for breakfast and other food demands.

The hotel will remain open to existing and new bookings for weddings and parties.

In July, the owners of the Lansdowne Place placed the Royal York Hotel into the hands of the administrators. A buyer is still being sought for the property in the Old Steine.

Mr Glover said work on the Hove hotel will start in the next couple of months and continue throughout next year.

He said: “We want to do something different in the market and we feel there is a real demand for this style of accommodation.

“It’s no secret that hotels are struggling, life is difficult out there.Whatwe are trying to do is different to anything else in the marketplace, there is nothing in Brighton currently like this.

“It’s a tried and tested formula that we have tried elsewhere in the country, we are not taking a fly on this.

“The length of stay will be significantly longer than in traditional hotel bedrooms.

“We are closing the hotel restaurant because these restaurants do struggle because we are competing with some very good restaurants and people want to eat out.

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Archie Bun says...
12:29pm Fri 14 Sep 12

It certainly needs it. It is a bad hotel. Dirty, poor decor, wonky floors, poor service, stains all over the stairway carpets.They have a cheek with the prices they charge and have the temerity to describe themselves as a boutique hotel, not understanding at all what that means.

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libbyjo says...
2:09pm Fri 14 Sep 12

This is rather interesting. The owner of this hotel also owned the Royal York Hotel which recently went down the pan in Brighton and for months before no staff had been paid and suppliers had been 'Bumped' off. Oddly enough, many of the staff at the Lansdowne I know personally and they have to chase their wages, and many of the suppliers at this hotel are owed considerable amounts of money. Nice to see where the money oweing to suppliers is going!

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BaronGreenback says...
2:17pm Fri 14 Sep 12

Ah brightons very own basil fawlty with a twist of del trotter thrown in strikes again! Im not surprised that the owner of this hotel has received death threats on numerous occasions, and not just because of the awful food and terrible conditions, i have heard it said that a stay in guantanamo bay would generate less complaints than staying at this dive. I find it absolutely laughable, that a man who continually liquidates companies, bumps of staff who work hard and dont get paid, suppliers get stitched up for their money, and yet he still comes up with genius ideas like this one! i wonder how many people will not get paid for months to finance this latest hair brained scheme! To put it bluntly, the man my friends is a complete mong.

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libbyjo says...
2:30pm Fri 14 Sep 12

Ah BaronGreenback, I see you know of these people well too?! Unsuprising really considering as you rightly say the nature in which the listed above Director and his CEO operate business will of course attract all the attention of those who work hard and serve them, but get shafted in the long run. It sickens me that companies house and HMRC will allow people like this to behave in such a way time and time again. Karma will catch up with them eventually.

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leobrighton says...
2:43pm Fri 14 Sep 12

No doubt it will be placed into receivership afterwards and Mr. Glover can buy it for next to nothing and sell off 60 two bedroom flats.

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BaronGreenback says...
2:56pm Fri 14 Sep 12

Leobrighton.... i think your on to something there! The clown who owns it and his underling really should wear striped clothing and carry swag bags, they are a pair of opportunistic goons with no concern for the people they leave in their wake. I would love to have a front row seat when they get what is undoubtedly coming to them!

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libbyjo says...
3:06pm Fri 14 Sep 12

Hotel staff have all been made redundant and are working their last few weeks. Latest news hot off the press!! So there you go, advertising all is well when all along it's the Royal York situation over again. I feel sorry for the staff, it's only them that will suffer and then eventually the owners will as you say above get what is coming to them.

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BaronGreenback says...
3:51pm Fri 14 Sep 12

yes libbyjo, one of my friends who works there just told me they have all been made redundant today! so that then begs the question, who is feeding this crap to the argus and for what purpose? more deception from the crooked owners! im only glad that he will no longer have any hotels in brighton and the poor staff who work in them in the future might actually get paid!

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Crystal Ball says...
4:05pm Fri 14 Sep 12

Are there views of Wildebeast on the savanah?

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sussexguy says...
4:22pm Fri 14 Sep 12

I remember when, years ago, this was the Dudley, which was a very attractive and well organised hotel. It is so sad to see how much that the place has been allowed to deteriorate since then.

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wild berry says...
4:58pm Fri 14 Sep 12

BaronGreenback wrote:
yes libbyjo, one of my friends who works there just told me they have all been made redundant today! so that then begs the question, who is feeding this crap to the argus and for what purpose? more deception from the crooked owners! im only glad that he will no longer have any hotels in brighton and the poor staff who work in them in the future might actually get paid!
I hate to say , but I believe he does have another hotel in the pipeline.....Charter House beside The Thistle which is due to open shortly ,might well be the latest venture trying to operate in the wake of Landsdown & Royal York tradition .

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Morpheus says...
5:29pm Fri 14 Sep 12

I hope they get a chef who knows that food should be served hot.

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Athena says...
6:37pm Fri 14 Sep 12

Another seven-figure refurbishment? In 2005, the historic Dudley Hotel was transformed into this failing edifice and now they want to pour more money into it? Leobrighton may well have a point that this will be a clandestine conversion of Churchill's old hotel into high-end seaside flats. I worked there in the 70s, and it was full of film stars, the WI cricket team and old resident colonels. Then, it was a 4-star but in its hey-day, it was a 5-star plush place. With Hove's Conway Street rejuvenation in the pipeline, Hove could do with a high-end multi-function top hotel of the Dudley's old calibre. Who wants mini-suites, except weekend Londoners?

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Gardenboy says...
1:19am Sat 15 Sep 12

This hotel and restaurant has been very badly run by some crooks for too long. Check out the restaurant reviews on trip advisor!
The only good chef, Alistar, could not produce good food with crap ingredients as all his suppliers had the hotel on stop.
It is outrageous that the Argus are portraying this as a good news story... quite the opposite!

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Worthingwithoutbuses! says...
12:35pm Sat 15 Sep 12

Listen very carefully... I shall say this only once! ...Just look up 'Crown Dilnum' case on Google and all will make sence.

If you like cryptic investigations and linking up people involved... enjoy!

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Mel@cityclean says...
2:34pm Sat 15 Sep 12

Who is paying for this???

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PBrown, Sussex says...
11:04pm Sun 16 Sep 12

According to what I heard from people who used to work there this hotel is a dodgy business. Suppliers are not paid, members of the staff have their wages withheld every month and do not have minimum working conditions. I feel sorry for them and for the people who have bookings from now on. It seems that the owner is doing exactly what he did at Royal York Hotel. It is a shame to see TheArgus occupying its space to promote a company like this.

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PBrown, Sussex says...
11:55pm Sun 16 Sep 12

Forgot to mention that once I bumped into a group of ex-employees from Royal York protesting in front of Lansdowne Place as they never got paid for their shifts at Royal York.....as someone already told, nice to see where the money is going! And there is more. The owner is building a new spa in Tunbridge Wells....

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Worthingwithoutbuses! says...
1:24am Sun 23 Sep 12

as the saying goes.... ''Bent as a nine bob note'' Say no more....???

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Brighton7786 says...
3:26pm Fri 28 Sep 12

Nick Sutton is a nasty man. He gets businesses into debt and then lets the businesses go into administration and then starts a new business under a new name - even though it is still him running it. Every business he has, is set us as a different limited company, meaning he can get them into debt without effecting the others. While making his suppliers go down by not paying them. So many suppliers have tried taken Nick to court (as have staff).

Here is a great example of how he has wrecked lives: http://www.walesonli
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As people have mentioned he doesn't pay staff - leaving some unable to pay rent/mortgages. While he rented out one of his houses to Adele for £15,000 a month - can't be that short of cash! He also makes staff deal with the bailiffs and horrible phone calls from suppliers.

He also threatened staff saying if they did not write good fake Trip Advisor reviews they would be sacked. He is a horrible horrible greedy man........I believe in karma.

David is a lawyer and is employed to basically get Nick off the hook, which is why he has always got away with all the court cases he has been dragged through. Nick has a hold over him, something to do with when they were younger.

I don't know how the man sleeps at night! There is so much this man has done which is just disgusting!

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Gussem says...
12:56am Fri 5 Oct 12

Very corrupt and worth mentioning his fixed competitions with SouthernFM.

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saveHOVE says...
3:09pm Sun 7 Oct 12

The more you spend on buying, selling, refurbishing, the higher the costs go for users and businesses get priced out of the market this way.

Mergers and acquisitions and all this redevelopment lark just fuels inflation.

If the hotel is not making money now, it will make less if cost of use rises to pay for this refurb.

The City is not drawing people in. End of. Nothing to do with the hotels.
This is a student town and they don't patronise hotels.

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