Hi-tech engineering firm M+W Group is to help develop the UK’s largest waste-to-energy plant of its kind. When completed, the £200m Energy Works scheme in Kingston upon Hull will be able to generate up to 28MW of electricity a year by treating waste – enough to supply 40,000 homes. It will be the largest...
Facilities management firm Openit has been appointed to manage the day-to-day running of serviced offices in Kingston House, a Grade II listed Georgian building Bath city centre. The building in Pierrepont Street is owned by accountants Leslie, Ward & Drew and also serves as the firm’s Bath office. Other tenants include home care firm...
Bath Racecourse has gained full planning approval for the next phase of its multi-million pound upgrade, including a new luxury grandstand overlooking the final furlong. The improvements are aimed at ensuring that the course becomes a year-round, regionally important premier sporting, leisure and business venue. It also wants to substantially increase income from corporate...
A new enterprise zone in the Somer Valley area including Radstock and Midsomer Norton is to be created to help attract new businesses and potentially create thousands of jobs. The plan was announced by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last week and follows lobbying by Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES)...
Café group Boston Tea Party is opening its second outlet in Bath next month to meet growing demand. The outlet – the 17th to be opened by the group since it was founded in 1996 – is in a sensitively restored Grade II building in Alfred Street near the Assembly Rooms. The 130-seat café-bar...
The CBI welcomed the spending review’s commitment to longer-term investment in the economy but said there was a sting in the tail in the size and scope of the £3m apprenticeship levy. Director-general Carolyn Fairbairn said: “Businesses will be pleased to see the Chancellor staying the course on deficit reduction, his commitment to an...
The Chancellor’s pledge to build 400,000 homes over the next five years was warmly welcomed by property firm Bilfinger GVA regional senior director Jo Davis. But she added: “In the South West the ability to deliver these targets will depend on the availability of suitable land. The location of new housing is key and...
Bath business experts have given a mostly positive reaction to Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement and Spending Review. Ian Bell, executive director, Bath Chamber of Commerce and the Initiative in Bath & North East Somerset – part of Business West – said it contained some positive news for the region. “Once again the ‘builder’...
Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his Autumn Statement and Spending Review. These are the main points: Chancellor says five years ago UK economy was in crisis. Debt will fall this year. £12bn of welfare savings will be delivered in full. Britain has grown faster than any other G7 countries since 2010. Economy is predicted...
A Bath-based team of property experts specialising in converting historic buildings into hotels has won planning approval for a major scheme in Bristol. The Trevor Osborne Property Group has teamed up with architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to transform Bristol’s former crown court building into the city’s first 5-star hotel. The Osborne Group, whose...
