Each week Bath Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on our weekly e-bulletin. This week, David Munday, practice manager at DKA Architects, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? I’m a huge fan of iTunes movies and Netflix so rarely venture to...
Bath businesses have supported the launch of a new book by local author and Homes under the Hammer presenter Martin Roberts to help vulnerable primary school children who may be suffering abuse or neglect. A free copy of Sadsville, written in support of the NSPCC Schools Programme, will go to every primary school child...
Bath architectural firm Nash Partnership’s urban design director Amanda Taylor has been appointed to a national network of design experts. Amanda is one of 150 professionals recruited recently as the first of 400 built environment experts (BEEs) by Design Council Cabe. She is one of just 22 to have been appointed in this round...
Sorbus International, the Frome-based firm supplying specialist and hi-tech equipment to the arboriculture, forestry and environmental care industries, has expanded into larger premises as the result of a new finance package with Barclays. The new 7,000 sq ft base includes bespoke offices, showroom and warehouse with room for further expansion. The new showroom also...
A sustainable transport project at Bath’s Riverside regeneration area that has exceeded its targets for the past three years has won the West of England’s top green travel award. The project, led by developer Crest Nicholson, took Gold at the Travelwest Sustainable Travel Business Awards, which recognise firms that go the extra mile to...
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...
