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£15 million Northumbrian holiday home development to create 100 jobs

Entrepreneur William Kiely, owner of Burgham Park Golf Club in Northumberland, has invested in £15 million Northumbrian Hills holiday home development.

Northumbrian Hills will have 50 stone cottages priced from £235k. Brims Construction have been appointed on the project.

Once the 50 holiday homes are built, the second phase is to build a pavilion, which will house a fine-dining restaurant, cafes, bars and a leisure centre, complete with a pool, spa and gymnasium.

Kiely is also planning a third stage to Northumbrian Hills: a world-class golf academy.

William Kiely told Bdaily: “I got involved with Burgham Park Golf Club back in 2001 as part of a consortium, but I am now the sole owner. When I came over at that time, I simply fell in love with Northumberland. Everything about it appealed to me, the people, the countryside, the coastline; it’s actually very similar to Ireland in a lot of ways.

Even all those years ago, I could see that tourism in Northumberland was ready to take off so that got my brain ticking. When I sold my business interests in Ireland in 2006, I decided to move over here permanently and started properly planning for the Northumbrian Hills resort development the following year. It’s taken seven hard years to get to this stage, but I believe it will be worth it in the end.“

The holiday home development and the resort will create between 40 - 60 construction jobs whilst it’s being developed.

Kiely said: “When everything is complete, I would expect between 50 - 60 people to be employed by Northumbrian Hills. As it’s a fully managed resort complex with so many facilities there’ll be all sorts of jobs from operational managers to chefs to domestic staff.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .