Outsourcer Serco provides around 109 hotels in England, while Gloucester-based Mears Group runs 80 hotels in north-east England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
The Manor Hotel in Datchet
DEVELOPERS wanting to convert a hotel into a house in multiple occupation (HMO) withdrew their plans after heavy resistance from residents. Locals weren’t happy with the applicant’s scheme to partly change the three-storey Manor Hotel in Datchet into an HMO. Out of its 43 bedrooms, 13 would remain as hotel rooms while the other 30 would’ve been used for the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to house the homeless. During the pandemic, the hotel has been housing the homeless, however, the owners said Covid-19 has had a ‘major’ impact on their finances and has left them seeking alternative revenue streams.