A down-at-heel pub has been transformed with contemporary styling and a menu packed with fresh ingredients to create The Bath Pub Company’s fourth outlet. Following months of refurbishment, The Locksbrook Inn in Bath’s Lower Weston is now open. The £250,000 refurbishment work on the former Dolphin Inn on Locksbrook Road has been sympathetic to...
Landlords planning to transfer their properties into a company to avoid recent tax changes are being warned of the dangers. In a bid to cool the market, Chancellor George Osborne has introduced new taxes – and his 20% cap on mortgage interest relief is causing the most anxiety in the buy-to-let sector. The cap...
Development of a major distribution park on the M4 near Chippenham has moved a step closer after national regeneration firm St Modwen bought the 79-acre greenfield site. The Chippenham Gateway scheme could accommodate 1m sq ft of warehouse space, subject to planning consent – making it one of the largest in the region and...
Lightweight steel roofing company Metrotile UK has appointed David Padmore as regional manager for the North of England. David Padmore, pictured, who has worked in the roofing industry for 32 years, will be responsible for developing business opportunities for the Chippenham-based firm in an area north of Stoke and the Humber and to Scottish...
Former Bath Business Improvement District (BID) director Les Redwood has returned to the city to become head of business development at Bath Tourism Plus, the body responsible for marketing the city. Les, pictured, who is also a former chairman of The Bath Independent Guest Houses Association, has spent the past six months working in...
Property consultancy Carter Jonas’s Bath office has been appointed as joint agents on Hawke Ridge Business Park in West Wiltshire. The £50m, 35-acre park on the A350 corridor between Trowbridge and Westbury is being developed by Bath-based HPH. Once complete, it will offer around 500,000 sq ft of multi-use space, including office, industrial and distribution facilities. Infrastructure...
Bath-based property development firm Longacre is making the most of the city’s historic architecture and giving neglected buildings a new lease of life. The firm has recently completed its latest scheme – a high-profile refurbishment of disused office and storage space in the city centre named One Bilbury Lane. A dilapidated and redundant five-floor...
Landlords are to get the chance to quiz a panel of experts on issues spanning Brexit, taxation and best buys on buy-to-let mortgages. The property debate next Thursday, May 26, is being staged by Keynsham-based Andrews Property Group at the town’s Somerdale Pavilion. It will also be live streamed online for those unable to...
Lightweight steel roofing company Metrotile UK has come to the rescue of a South Wales countryside park whose visitor centre suffered from leaks every time it rained. The previous porous roof tiles on the Parc Bryn Bach building in Blaenau Gwent had let water into the café area. But now the popular lakeside facility...
Simon Barbato, founder and CEO of Bath-based brand, digital and marketing agency Mr B & Friends, and Brady George, managing director of Keynsham-based facilities management company Almeda Facilities, have been shortlisted for the Institute of Directors (IoD) South West regional Director of the Year Awards. Simon, pictured, founded Mr B & Friends 10 years ago...
