Bristol Airport is to build a £24m extension to its terminal featuring state-of-the-art technology aimed at streamlining passenger security checks and ending peak-time bottle necks, it announced today. The airport, the UK’s ninth largest and one of its fastest growing, is holding talks with security firms to install the industry’s most-advanced equipment to speed...
The largest fully refurbished industrial/warehouse building in Chippenham – the former DTR VMS building on the Bumpers Farm industrial estate – has come onto the market. The 90,000 sq ft building, pictured below, now rebranded as The Hub, has been empty since the automotive components manufacturer relocated to a larger site in Trowbridge. Owner...
A range of ambitious projects to help Chippenham realise its “huge potential” were announced today – from a new brand for the town to free wi-fi and its own app. The Chippenham Connected brand was officially unveiled at the Chippenham Business Improvement District’s (BID) first event, which brought together businesspeople from the town to...
Accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson has launched a free tax calculator to enable businesses to work out how much tax they could be saving on their research and development (R&D) costs. The online tool has been set up in the light of research suggesting that thousands of businesses could be missing...
An upmarket health and fitness business has relocated to state-of-the-art premises in central Bath – with help from the city office of law firm Withy King. The business, formerly called RJS Fitness, has also unveiled a new name – Health – to coincide with the move to the newly-built premises in Crescent Lane, behind...
Bath’s five-star Villa Magdala bed & breakfast has been acquired by Ian and Christa Taylor, who own the Abbey Hotel on North Parade. Bath law firm Mogers Drewett pulled out all the stops to enable a takeover by the award-winning couple in just one month to minimise disruption and make the most of the...
A sustainable new building on a residential activity centre is in the running for a regional property award – with its lightweight steel roof supplied by Chippenham firm Metrotile UK contributing to its success. The accommodation block on PGL’s Liddington Campus near Swindon has been nominated for the South West LABC Building Excellence Awards...
The chief executive of Bath-based management consultancy Nine Feet Tall is among eight business leaders who have today been appointed to the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership’s board to help drive its growth ambitions. Esther McMorris is one of five new representatives who join three reappointed members on the newly formed LEP board,...
Keynsham’s recently opened Civic Centre has been named as the best corporate workplace in the South West, Thames Valley and South Wales by the British Council for Offices (BCO). The building, pictured, which replaced a number of outdated 1960s buildings in the town centre, won the award in the BCO’s regional property sector awards...
A design team led by Bath landscape architects Grant Associates has been shortlisted for a major contract in Singapore. The team is one of five in the running to develop an overall concept master plan for the city’s 24km-long Rail Corridor. Grant Associates teamed up with Dutch architects MVRDV and Singapore-based Architects 61 to bid...
