Draco Pub Co, the group that has transformed three former West Country coaching inns into award-winning upmarket pubs, is set for ambitious expansion after securing £4m in a refinancing deal with Barclays. The Pilton-based business already has a fourth property lined up for conversion following the runaway success of its three previous projects, which...
The redevelopment of Bath’s historic Twerton Mill has been completed, creating a state-of-the-art student housing complex for the city’s burgeoning student population. The £16.6m project has 330 bedrooms in a mixture of studios, en-suite clusters and townhouses for students, which will free up scarce privately rented accommodation in Bath for families. Work began on...
Bath-based housing organisation Curo has started construction work on a collection of family homes in Devizes. The development in Drew’s Meadow includes two, three and four-bedroom properties, which are being built for sale. Curo, a not-for-profit housing and support organisation, has a strong track record of building new homes across the West of England,...
The growing trend for staff to work away from their offices is presenting a health and safety risk for their employers, according to a Bath-based ergonomics consultancy. Dr Dave Usher, pictured, of InterAction of Bath, which advises industry and the military, says because businesses are unable to control or monitor home working environments, there...
Bath-based Regency Offices has increased its portfolio of properties in the city to eight following a deal on a newly refurbished building in Gay Street. Regency Offices, which already occupies a neighbouring property in Gay Street, has leased its new building from owner Bath-based developer HPH, which extensively refurbished it. It already has two...
The West of England is on the brink of its biggest single biggest development project in a generation after the long-expected Chinese investment in the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station was confirmed this week. The final go-ahead for the £18bn project is now expected within two weeks. With that decision now...
With just two days to go, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is shaping up to be one of the biggest business events in the West this year. Hundreds of business owners – men and women – will descend on the Colston Hall in Bristol this Thursday for the one-day entrepreneurial extravaganza. Tickets to the keynote...
The need for Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) to continue for another five years and for more powers to be devolved from London to the region were among the calls to action at an economic seminar and panel debate staged by Barclays. BID chief executive Andrew Cooper spoke at the event on the benefits...
Graduate surveyor Josh Bryant has been appointed by national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) to bolster its growing South West-based lease advisory team. Josh, pictured, graduated last year with a first-class honours degree in Property Investment and Management from the University of the West of England (UWE), which included a one-year placement in...
Bath-based law firm Mowbray Woodwards is holding a free commercial property breakfast briefing next month aimed at business owners and managers who are thinking about moving or have queries about their existing premises. The event at Bailbrook House on November 6 will cover the key property topics ranging from service charges, maintenance and repair...
