Instagram vs reality: Boxer Amir Khan's lavish wedding venue 11 years in the making is surrounded by smelly fly-tipped rubbish
manchestereveningnews.co.ukFormer world champion boxer Amir Khan's multi-million pound new wedding and events venue is preparing for a 'grand opening' and is now said to be taking bookings.
Photographs of the site, however, suggest work is still to be completed ahead of a rumoured March unveiling - and the area around the three-storey, glass-fronted building in the Deane area of Bolton is blighted by fly-tipping.
Called The Balmayna after the Arabic word for 'enamelled', the venue is billed in its planning documents as 'the premiere events facility in Bolton, if not Greater Manchester'. Try MEN Premium now for FREE...
just click here to give it a go. Costs are said to have risen to more than £11m after planning permission was granted by Bolton council 11 years ago in September, 2013.
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