West of England property group Andrews has strengthened its land and new homes team with the appointment of James Read to the role of land and development manager. James, pictured, who will be based at the group’s Keynsham headquarters, joins from Bath-based social enterprise Curo, where he was land and acquisition manager with responsibility...
Yurt and tipi manufacturer and hire firm Hearthworks is intent on more expansion following a year in which it has achieved strong growth. The Pilton-based firm, which started as a hobby in 1999 and has nearly doubled turnover every year, now attends 25 festivals a year, hiring out 115 yurts, more than 200 tipis...
A student accommodation scheme in Bath city centre has been sold for £25m – almost 13 months ahead of its expected completion. London-based Empiric Student Property exchanged contracts this week to acquire the freehold of the site on James Street West in a move that reflects the strength of the market in Bath. The...
Bath Business Improvement District (BID) has appointed Jonathan O’Shea, the former chief executive of St John’s Hospital, as its interim chief executive while it searches for a full-time replacement for Andrew Cooper. Mr O’Shea, pictured, will work alongside Mr Cooper to provide continuity and strategic direction to the BID team until the end of...
More than half the businesses in the South West fear they will not be able to recruit enough high-skilled workers for their future success, according to an alarming new report. The annual CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey – which gauged the views of 101 firms across the region – found that 68% say they...
Cardok UK, the Bath-based firm aiming to revolutionise parking, has agreed a distributor deal with Harrington Generators International (HGI) to provide home standby generators for its underground home car parking systems HGI – a leading supplier of generators to the rail, defence, oil, gas and water industries – will supply 8kw and 14kw standby...
Estate agency and property group Andrews has appointed Tim Bishop as its new business systems manager – the third senior IT role to be created at the firm in the past year. Tim, pictured, joins Keynsham head-quartered Andrews from the Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland where he was software engineer based in Reykjavik for three-and-a-half years. His...
Facilities management business Almeda has appointed Brady George as managing director, taking over from his father Gary, who set up the business in 2007. Brady, aged 29, joined the Keynsham-based firm six years ago and worked in every department of the business before taking on his previous role as operations director. The family-owned business,...
Bath desperately needs more affordable housing to ensure its future economic wellbeing, the city’s recently-elected Bath MP Ben Howlett told local property professionals. Key to this was overhauling the “archaic planning system” to free-up brownfield sites for housing development, Mr Howlett said. Addressing the second in a series of property and construction networking events...
The West of England’s ambitions to attract more inward investment and boost its level of exports were highlighted this week with the visit of trade and investment minister Lord Francis Maude. Lord Maude met a cross section of small and medium-sized firms and recent investors in the area along with representatives from engineering giant...
