A recently-opened waterfront park in South Shields designed by Bath-based landscape architects Grant Associates has achieved a major national accolade. The CEEQUAL award recognises the £2.3m Harton Quays Park’s high environmental and social performance. CEEQUAL awards are presented to innovative civil engineering, infrastructure, landscaping and public realm projects. Harton Quays Park stretches along the River...
Bath-based media group Future’s interactive tablet magazine creation software arm FutureFolio has produced the first digital edition of the official Peppa Pig Bag-O-Fun magazine. Published by Redan Publishing, Peppa Pig Bag-O-Fun has an average circulation of 70,000 copies a month while the Peppa Pig brand, licensed by Entertainment One, is the number one...
The Manufacturing Advisory Service has appointed a supply chain specialist in the South West to ensure that manufacturers gain a significant share of the lucrative opportunities presented by the UK’s burgeoning offshore wind market. Nick Kirsop-Taylor, pictured, will help firms tap into the recently-launched £20m GROW:OffshoreWind service that supports companies looking to break into...
Duncan Parkes, head of compliance at West accountants and financial planners Old Mill, has been named Protection Planner of the Year by the Financial Times’ Money Management magazine. Duncan had to go through a rigorous judging process to win the title, including providing a solution to a real-life financial problem set by industry experts....
A West of England property expert is warning that Government plans to give communities a greater say over wind turbine proposals are deeply flawed and could scupper many small schemes. James Davis, pictured, who heads the regionally-based planning team at national property consultancy Sanderson Weatherall, fears the changes will make smaller renewable energy schemes...
Monday 9 December Interim: Anite Finals: Alternative Networks, Jelf Group, RWS Holdings, Treatt AGMs: Conroy Gold & Natural Resources, Karelian Diamond Resources Tuesday 10 December Interims: Ashtead, Carpetright, Iomart, Photo-Me International Finals: Tui Travel, Victrex, Zytronic Trading statement: Whitbread AGMs: Billing Services, Debenhams, Tristel, Utilitywise, Weatherly International Economics: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors house...
Efforts to get more South West firms to export are being stepped up after new figures showed the first fall in overseas sales from the region for more than a year. Exports by value dropped by 3.3% in the third quarter to £3.32bn, sparked by a fall-off in h a fall in trade within...
Outline planning permission has been granted for a major redevelopment scheme that could transform a large part of Chippenham. Central Chippenham Partnership (CCP) wants to redevelop much of Langley Park – the town’s original industrial centre – and refurbish Hathaway Retail Park. Its plans will regenerate the 54-acre site of existing retail and dilapidated...
Chancellor George Osborne heeded business’s call for a ‘steady-as-she-goes’ Autumn Statement last week rather than a grab bag of electoral giveaways, according to Business West, the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce. But managing director Phil Smith said he should have been bolder over business rate reform and added: “While Britain’s economy is...
The CBI welcomed much of today's Autumn Statement but said Chancellor George Osborne had missed the opportunity to tackle the impact of soaring energy prices on business. It also said the Mr Osborne could have done more to encourage housebuildng. CBI director-general John Cridland said: “We have always advocated the dual approach of tackling...
