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New Hotel Next to London Helipad

If you usually travel by private helicopter on your holidays, then the news that the London Heliport site at Battersea is to be redeveloped will be particularly important for you. The heliport site that has seen people like Tiger Woods and Jackie Onassis land there has just been bought by the Von Essen group who plan a boutique hotel there with a Gordon Ramsay restaurant (you might know Gordon from Hell's Kitchen).

The heliport site next to the Thames will soon be home to a 70-room luxury hotel including a subterranean spa and a roof-top restaurant seating 200, run--probably--by British superstar chef Gordon Ramsay, which would add up to his tenth restaurant in London.

Being the only heliport in London, locals have already long been complaining about the noise from helicopters and are whinging again that the new development will make things worse. But the Von Essen group is planning to build its own office headquarters next to their 7-storey boutique hotel, so it doesn't seem like they'll be changing their mind any time soon.

[Photo: lunaticg]

Related Stories:
· Von Essen Acquires London Heliport [Times UK]
· Gordon Ramsay To Open New Restaurant [DigitalSpy]