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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
Owen Hughes

Six hotels in Wales, Yorkshire and Devon have gone into administration

Six more hotels owned by Gavin Woodhouse's company Northern Powerhouse Developments have gone into administration.

Last week Business Live revealed that two Welsh hotels owned by the under fire entrepreneur

The high court appointed Philip Francis Duffy and Sarah Helen Bell, of Duff & Phelps Ltd, as administrators of Caer Rhun Hall in the Conwy Valley and Fourcroft Hotel in Tenby.

Now an additional six hotels in Wales, Yorkshire and Devon have gone into adminstration with Duff & Phelps.

All of the operating hotels - listed below - continue to trade in administration and all bookings will be honoured.

The latest administrations come after a probe was started into the finances of NPD after insolvency practitioners Duff & Phelps were appointed interim managers by the High Court.

The Serious Fraud Office is also considering whether to investigate Gavin Woodhouse's hotel and care home businesses. This followed a referral by Labour MP John Mann, a long-standing member of parliament’s Treasury select committee.

Gavin Woodhouse has previously denied doing anything wrong.

Gavin Woodhouse, chair of Northern Powerhouse Developments (Northern Powerhouse Developments)

He has said: "I am unable to comment in detail on matters that are the subject of ongoing court proceedings.

"I hope to address the issues raised publicly when I am able to do so."

Duff and Phelps said: "Philip Duffy and Sarah Bell, both of Duff & Phelps, were appointed Joint Administrators of the hotels detailed in the below schedule on the respective dates and whilst the hotels are trading under the control of the Joint Administrators all room and event bookings are being honoured."

They added: "Please note that the Atlantic Bay Hotel in Woolacombe is a non-operational hotel."

The list of NPD hotels where Duff & Phelps have been appointed as administrators.

                                                                                           
Hotel Date of Appointment  
Pennine Manor Hotel Limited , Huddersfield   16/07/2019  
Caer Rhun Hotel Management Ltd, Conwy Valley   08/08/2019  
Atlantic Bay Hotel (Woolacombe) Ltd 08/08/2019  
Fourcroft Hotel (Tenby) Ltd 08/08/2019  
The Old Golf House Hotel Management Ltd, Huddersfield     09/08/2019  
LBHS Management Ltd (Llandudno Bay Hotel) 13/08/2019  
Fishguard Bay Hotel Limited 16/08/2019  
Queens Hotel (Llandudno) Management Ltd 16/08/2019  
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