Farnham Estate plan for spa extension

 

The Farnham Estate is set to continue its multi-million euro investment after it received permission to press ahead with plans to significantly extend the hotel's health spa.

The proposed development includes a man-made lake and a new hydrotherapy pool along with other facilities.

Already in recent years Farnham Hospitality Limited has worked to enhance the historic estate complex.

The latest application includes a single storey 75sqm extension at ground level to the existing health spa to accommodate additional changing facilities along with renovations to existing changing rooms, toilets and accessible toilet facilities.

A single storey 177sqm extension at lower ground level will provide additional relaxation areas near the main pool area, while permission has also been received to extended the existing outdoor pool terrace and new hydrotherapy pool along with a new single storey plant room of 61.5sqm to be constructed into the hillside adjacent to terrace.

The Farnham Estate Spa and Golf Resort was purchased in mid-2016 at a guide price of €26 million by Austian investor Thomas Röggla.

The resort hotel with its 158-bedroom hotel and high-end golf course set within a 1,250-acre estate, had been developed at a cost close €100 million by its former owner, Cavan-native and pharmacy-magnate, Roy McCabe.

Mr Röggla purchases was added to an earlier €3 million deal for the Cavan Crystal Hotel, both bought through investment fund Davy's Strategic Capital Investments Plc (SCIP).

 

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