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Posted by Editor on 25th November 2009 at 12:24 PM
'Mr Salford' - John Wilkinson part 3: Buile Hill Hotel
by Caroline Kullendorff

In 2007 the Wilkinson Corportation made a planning application to install a new hotel within
the Buile Hill Park Mansion.

John's plan was to produce a high-quality banqueting/wedding facility, but even after he was granted planning permission, the bid failed because of vocal community groups, including the Claremont Community Association, debating the need for the plans to go through. It was apparent that local residents believed that a four star hotel was not the right choice for Buile Hill Mansion, and preferred that the space be used as a community resource.

The Heritage Lottery Fund North West eventually sided with the community associations and John had to back away from the hotel project, which he says would have provided the perfect place to have a wedding in Salford, or a place to stay while visiting relatives in Hope Hospital (Salford Royal, Stott Lane).

Here we go a little more in depth into the history and story behind the Buile Hill hotel idea, and the plans that scuppered it.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  23rd January 2010
I have watched this clip 3/4 times. Mr Salford as he likes to be called is not listneing to the people of Salford. The feedback I have had is people would like to see the house being for the people of Salford to use as a community building or to move the banquiting suite into the house. If the hotel should go ahead we will have no Park area near Eccles Old Road, we will be back to the turn of the last century when we had just Seedley park. In answer to the question above ''who is the merry bacon slicer'' I think thats me. We have lost so much of out heritage someone has to say enough is enough and thank god the heritage lottery also said they felt the hotel was not the best use of the Mansion. We are willing to setup a preservation trust and look for outside funding for the house so it can be kept for the people of Salford who bought it for just that, SALFORD RESIDENST. Had people listened and worked with us we may not have lost the lottery funding,but they knew best or so they thought. Mary

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  22nd January 2010
What a rude and unpleasant man. He rides roughshod over the views of the people who live in the area and thinks he can get what he wants by giving money to Hazel Blears - and then he insults the people who stand up to him.

Report as offensive or innapropriate Comment by Guest  25th November 2009
Whos the merry bacon slicer he refers to?

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