Plans to build 700 homes on the former Foxhill MoD base have been approved in a move that will transform a large part of Bath. Now called Mulberry Park, the 48-acre development by Bath-based housing organisation Curo gained outline planning application from B&NES council on Wednesday after two years of consultation with local residents...
Research from the University of Bath’s Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering has resulted in the UK’s first affordable straw homes going on sale this week. The houses are an affordable, low carbon and fuel-efficient means of housebuilding with fuel bills up 90% cheaper than an equivalent brick-built house. Part-desinged by Bath-based Integral Engineering...
Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo has been named as the most digitally engaged housing association in the West of England. Curo, which manages 12,000 homes, was the highest climber on the annual Connected Housing index, rising 60 places to rank 13th in the whole of the UK and first in the region. The...
Melksham and Trowbridge-based property agent Kavanaghs has been instructed by Guildhall Estates to market new retail units at the East Melksham Local Centre. Guildhall is developing the neighbourhood centre on a site about a mile from Melksham town centre next to the town’s new link road. A pre-let to a food outlet has already...
Bath Ales has won another trophy for its beer – this time taking home silver from the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Winter Beer of Britain awards this week for its Festivity porter. The seasonal tipple has now won four awards. Its latest was presented at the National Winter Ales Festival in Derby based...
Fifty-eight homes are to be built on the former Royal High Junior School campus in Bath’s Lansdown conservation area. Property agent Alder King secured planning permission for the development on appeal. London-based developer Square Bay will now build 54 homes on the upper part of the 2.5 hectare brownfield site now occupied by vacant...
South West tech firms are poised to grow at four times the rate of the economy this year, according to new research. Some 58% of the firms quizzed as part of Barclays’ Fast Growth Tech survey said they expect their business to grow by up to 10%, with 19% forecasting growth of between 10%...
Bath business owners will get the chance to quiz the five candidates who will be battling it out to become the city’s next MP at a hustings staged by the Institute of Directors (IoD). Lining up at the Question Time-style event will be General Election hopefuls Steve Bradley (Lib Dem), Ben Howlett (Conservative), Ollie...
National specialist recruitment firm BCL Legal has appointed Georgina Inson as a senior associate in its South West office. Georgina, pictured, will handle non-contentious commercial roles in the region working from the Bristol office, including real estate, commercial and corporate opportunities. She has worked in legal recruitment for five years and held positions at...
Property advisory firm CBRE has strengthened its national asset services team in the South West with the appointment of Mark Evans as senior surveyor. He joins CBRE’s Bristol office from rival Alder King, where he worked as a surveyor. Mark said: “I am thrilled to be joining CBRE at such a critical time in...
