{"id":188137,"date":"2023-10-23T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=188137"},"modified":"2023-10-23T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:11:11","slug":"businessman-offers-to-tear-down-one-of-his-mansions-to-keep-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/businessman-offers-to-tear-down-one-of-his-mansions-to-keep-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman offers to tear down one of his mansions to keep hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Billionaire businessman offers to tear down one of his mansions if it means he can keep lavish five-star hotel which was extended without planning permission<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Fairmont Windsor Park Hotel contains over 2,800sqm of unpermitted floorspace<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Surinder Arora, 65, offered to demolish other properties on estate to save hotel<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A billionaire businessman has offered to tear down one of his mansions if he is allowed to keep a lavish five-star hotel which was extended without planning permission.<\/p>\n<p>Surinder Arora, 65, was told by Runnymede Borough Council officials to demolish all or part of the luxury Fairmont Windsor Park Hotel earlier this year, which his Arora Group has admitted contains \u20182,868sqm of additional and unauthorised floor area\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But in a detailed new proposal designed to save the luxury hotel, the firm promises to take a wrecking ball to a host of other properties on the Surrey estate and give up on plans to redevelop them, which would equate to 2,891sqm, a net gain of 23sqm Green Belt land, they claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Through the removal of a greater quantity of built development at the Parkwood Estate, the application proposals mitigate against the reduction of the Green Belt at the Fairmont Hotel site by improving Green Belt openness at Parkwood\u2019, the Arora Group submission says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/18\/76903179-12663063-image-a-22_1698083727352.jpg\" height=\"814\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Businessman Surinder Arora, 65,\u00a0 was told by Runnymede Borough Council to demolish all or part of his Fairmont Windsor Park Hotel earlier this year after his group admitted that the premises includes over 2,800 sqm of unpermitted development<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/19\/76903791-12663063-image-a-23_1698084098463.jpg\" height=\"454\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The billionaire has now offered to demolish one of the mansions on the Surrey estate in a bid to save the luxury hotel<\/p>\n<p>The proposal continues: \u2018The retention of the Fairmont extensions, coupled with the removal of the Parkwood Estate buildings will offer both visual and spatial benefits to the Green Belt. In visual terms the removal of built form at the Parkwood Estate will enhance the landscape and offer improved views.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The visual change at the Fairmont Hotel is less evident as the unauthorised extensions to the buildings are integrated into the overall design of the built form, appearing to be part of the original concept and design.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the unusual offer will stand up to scrutiny from planning officials. A note from Englefield Green Village Residents\u2019 Association said the idea \u2018may or may not be judged valid in Planning terms\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But at least one residents has already denounced the proposal as nothing more than a ploy.<\/p>\n<p>They told the council that \u2018it is common knowledge that this building [Parkwood House] is derelict and he almost certainly plans to demolish it anyway to build a golf course (for which he has no planning permission either), so this is not fit compensation, but an active benefit to him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The council previously said it was \u2018disappointed\u2019 that an extra wing and an extension into the eaves of the 251-room hotel had been carried out without planning permission. They have yet to respond to the latest proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In a report commissioned by the Englefield Green Village Residents\u2019 Association exposing the planning violations, an independent planning consultant said there were \u2018a number of large additions to the hotel\u2019 that did not appear to have planning permission.<\/p>\n<p>They included an extra wing, two extensions and the hotel being some 8ft (2.5 metres) taller than planned.<\/p>\n<p>And on July 7, Runnymede Borough Council served a Planning Enforcement Notice requiring the hotel to either be returned to the original approved plans, or demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel was the backdrop for the signing of the Windsor agreement on post-Brexit trade. Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen met at the hotel on the edge of Windsor Great Park in February, at a cost to the taxpayer of \u00a316,325.<\/p>\n<p>It also hosted an \u2018away day\u2019 for Tory MPs in the same week, paid for by the Conservative Party, which included a pub quiz hosted by party chairman Greg Hands and dinner with the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Suites at the hotel, which was opened by Sir Cliff Richard in 2021, cost more than \u00a31,000-a-night, and rooms around \u00a3400.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel spa offers caviar facials, cryotherapy treatments and manicures and pedicures for children.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/19\/76903797-12663063-image-a-32_1698084769501.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Council officials say the site is in violation of several planning restrictions, including an extra wing and a couple of extensions without permission, and the hotel being 8ft taller than allowed<\/p>\n<p>Mr Arora, a Tory donor, previously hit the headlines after it emerged that the then home secretary Priti Patel and business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng had met with him without officials from their departments.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting happened at Heathrow airport\u2019s Hilton Garden Inn, also owned by Mr Arora, who denied the lunch in 2021 was linked to his ambitions to build a third runway at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the time, he said: \u2018I\u2019ve known Kwasi and Priti for years. I said pop in and have lunch and see my new hotel. I don\u2019t do politics. I don\u2019t support anyone. There wasn\u2019t any agenda.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mr Arora previously donated \u00a35,000 to the Tories in Runnymede and Weybridge through Arora Management Services Ltd, of which he is a director, plus another \u00a31,450 in sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>The Arora Group has said it is \u2018truly sorry \u2018 for mistakes made during construction of the hotel. It was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Runnymede Borough Council was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12663063\/Billionaire-businessman-offers-tear-one-mansions-means-lavish-five-star-hotel-extended-without-planning-permission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire businessman offers to tear down one of his mansions if it means he can keep lavish five-star hotel which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Businessman offers to tear down one of his mansions to keep hotel - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/businessman-offers-to-tear-down-one-of-his-mansions-to-keep-hotel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Businessman offers to tear down one of his mansions to keep hotel - 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