04 Feb 2015’s largest UK Spa Build Gets Underway

A groundbreaking ceremony has marked the start of this year’s largest spa build in the UK. at the Boringdon Hall Hotel.

The £5million Gaia Spa development in Devon, will offer staying guests and day visitor’s access to a range of treatments focusing on health and wellbeing, incorporating the spa’s own-brand natural products and some of the UK’s top names in spa and wellness.

When completed, the centre will accommodate 12 treatment rooms, a deep relaxation area, heat treatment facilities, as well as a state-of-the-art gym, a 14-meter swimming pool, thermal pool and a restaurant. Measuring at approximately 1,700 square meters the spa will be the biggest in Devon and Cornwall and the largest spa build this year in the UK.

A strikingly modern building with a focus on glass, wood and stone, the spa will complement the hotel’s Elizabethan architecture. The Nettleton Group, which also owns The Esplanade Hotel and the Fistral Beach Hotel and Spa in Newquay, aims to attract more local people through the new facilities, as well as offering an improved product to the hotel’s existing loyal guests and corporate clients.

Ward Williams Associates are providing multi-disciplinary consultancy services to this unique, flagship project, including; Project Management, Quantity Surveying/Employers agent and CDM coordination.

Matt Bromley, Senior Associate Director and Project Manager, said, “This is a fantastic example of a bespoke Spa facility that will ultimately become one of the premier luxury leisure experiences in the region”.

“The new spa and wellbeing facilities will complement the beautiful surroundings of the Grade 1 listed Boringdon Hotel and we are delighted to play a significant role in the project and continue our working relationship with the Nettleton family business”.

The build is expected to take 12 months with an anticipated spa opening in the Spring of 2016. – See more at: http://www.wwasurveyors.com/Latest/Latest-News.aspx#sthash.EbGM6UQ3.dpuf