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The draft design for the new hotel AEG Europe hopes to build next to The O2 has been unveiled.

The entertainment company this week submitted its planning application for the four star 450-bedroom hotel to Greenwich Council. The proposed development also includes adjoining serviced apartments and a large event space.

Will this 305-bedroom hotel be cleared to spring up directly opposite the Britannia International Hotel?

Applicant Marsh Wall Chelsea LLP will learn next week if Tower Hamlets Council approves its design for a "boutique" hotel at 40 Marsh Wall.

Who inspires London's concierge of the year?

It's not who you'd imagine.

In fact, it's probably the last person you'd imagine.

Running one of the top hotels in London is a tough job and Michael Purtill is the man who has to do it.

Michael is general manager of the Four Seasons, by Westferry Circus, the first luxury hotel in Canary Wharf, which opened on December 16, 1999.

Up to 200 full-time jobs could be heading to Docklands after plans for a new hotel at Excel received outline approval.

Newham Council's development control committee met last Wednesday to discuss the application for the 280-room hotel and voted unanimously to accept it.

A canopy roof and a 100-bed "boutique hotel" have been proposed as part of a facelift for Greenwich Market.

Hopkins Architects has submitted plans for Greenwich Hospital's regeneration of the historic market, which will be exhibited this weekend.

CANARY Wharf Group has upped its contributions to get the green-light for a hotel.

Subsidiary South Quay Properties is keen to build a 37-storey hotel dubbed Newfoundland to the west of the estate.

But Tower Hamlets Council deferred its application in August, asking for more cash for local services.
Newfoundland would feature 150 rooms, and 78 serviced apartments.

The company has now raised its Section 106 contribution from £915,284 to £1,115,284, including an additional £100,000 donation to the Isle of Dogs Community Foundation.

A YACHT hotel larger than One Churchill Place could be moving into South Dock.

Developer Aquiva is hoping to revive its three-year-old plan to base a 170-metre floating hotel next to Canary Wharf, providing 180 cabins for high-end corporate users.

IT could soon be last orders for the City Pride pub.

The Westferry Road haunt looks set to make way for a flagship tower, with a hotel, apartments and retail space.

Developer Glenkerrin has plans for a large building on the site after snapping up the prime development land for a reported £32million. But it remains tight-lipped on when it hopes to call time on the watering hole.

It has been suggested that Glenkerrin is considering a building rising as high as 55-storeys, with a five-storey hotel and 400 apartments.

GUESTS at two East London hotels were evacuated after fires just three days apart.

A supsected arson attack on a ground floor room at the Travelodge on Coriander Avenue forced 300 people into the car park last Tuesday night (March 4). And Custom House Hotel lost the use of all of its standard rooms on Friday (March 7), after a blaze damaged half of the building's roof and top floor.

Around 20 firefighters and four fire engines were called to quell the Travelodge fire after staff raised the alarm at 10.48pm. Crews from Poplar, Silvertown and Bow fire stations attended, and London Ambulance Service treated one person at the scene for slight smoke inhalation.