Sunningdale Park

Coordinates: 51°24′04″N 0°38′28″W / 51.401°N 0.641°W / 51.401; -0.641 Sunningdale Park is a meeting and conference venue in Sunningdale, Berkshire that is run by De Vere Venues.

In grounds of 65 acres (26 ha) there is a Grade II listed neo-Georgian mansion called Northcote House, which was built in 1930, and in which notable features include the grand staircase and front portico. Within the grounds there are gardens and a lake, a restaurant, lecture theatres, training rooms, a swimming pool and 272 bedrooms in accommodation blocks. The ill-fated Sunningdale Agreement on power-sharing in Northern Ireland was signed in Northcote House on 9 December 1973.

The site housed the National School of Government, which provided training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners until its closure in March 2012.[1] It then housed the privately managed Civil Service College.[2] In March 2015, the College of Policing opened an office in the Albert Day building.[3]

Sunningdale Park was sold to Audley Retirement and Berkeley Homes in December 2016.[4]

The landscaped park and gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.[5]

References

  1. ↑ National School of Government Archived 2012-12-27 at the Wayback Machine. accessed 19 June 2012
  2. ↑ Civil Service College accessed 19 June 2012
  3. ↑ College of Policing accessed 16 October 2016
  4. ↑ "Government sells Sunningdale Park for Redevelopment". Property Week. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Historic England, "Sunningdale Park (Civil Service College) (1001667)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 24 March 2018
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