£1.4m expansion for Pinewood on Wilmslow Hotel

THE owners of a Cheshire hotel have unveiled a £1.4m expansion programme, which will create 17 jobs after a new restaurant is added.

The Best Western Plus Pinewood on Wilmslow Hotel in Handforth is also adding 12 en-suite bedrooms to take its capacity to 70, adding lounge space and refurbishing its conference and events faciliites as part of the project.

Since its purchase in 2011 by Pinewood on Wilmslow LLP, a partnership of the four directors from the Best Western Plus Castle Green Hotel in Kendal, the hotel’s business has improved to justify this investment.

Hotel general manager John Scott said: “We have spent the last three years developing the Hotel’s reputation as a provider of high levels of hospitality and service, with a consistently good quality food product and accommodation that is comfortable, well maintained and competitively priced.

“As a result our corporate and leisure business has also grown by 23% and so the additional guest rooms are a must for us to capitalise on this success.”

The new restaurant will be able to accomodate 85 diners.