The new £3.6m construction skills centre at Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus will be officially opened on Wednesday as part of National Apprenticeship Week. The 2,300 sq m purpose-built centre accepted its first students at the start of term and has enabled the college to expand its construction courses. It is now teaching a range...
Ahead of this Sunday’s International Women’s Day, the Association of Women in Property (WiP) is this evening hosting an event to highlight the work of Concern Universal, the charity aiming to bring opportunities to communities worldwide and help to beat poverty. The drinks and tapas reception at The Lido, Clifton, Bristol, which starts at...
Savills has appointed Chloë Clark as senior planner covering the South West. Chloë, pictured, who qualified as a chartered town planner in 2012, joins Savills from Hunter Page Planning in Cheltenham. Chloë has experience of a range of residential and commercial development projects, as well as urban regeneration and rural conversion schemes for a variety...
The first show flat at a major £16.6m student housing development in Bath opened this week as transformation of the historic Twerton Mill neared completion. The scheme will convert the former landmark building on Lower Bristol Road into a state-of-the-art student housing complex. The project is being developed by McLaren Property with construction work...
Keynsham’s striking new civic centre and the innovative Lee Centre at Bath’s Ralph Allen School have been named among the region’s best new buildings by RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). They appear on the shortlist for the annual RICS South West Awards, putting them head to head with major new schemes such...
Bath firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, said politicians should now focus on the “significant hurdles” that remained to achieving a lasting recovery. Today’s...
Plans to build 700 homes on the former Foxhill MoD base have been approved in a move that will transform a large part of Bath. Now called Mulberry Park, the 48-acre development by Bath-based housing organisation Curo gained outline planning application from B&NES council on Wednesday after two years of consultation with local residents...
Research from the University of Bath’s Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering has resulted in the UK’s first affordable straw homes going on sale this week. The houses are an affordable, low carbon and fuel-efficient means of housebuilding with fuel bills up 90% cheaper than an equivalent brick-built house. Part-desinged by Bath-based Integral Engineering...
Bath-based housing and support organisation Curo has been named as the most digitally engaged housing association in the West of England. Curo, which manages 12,000 homes, was the highest climber on the annual Connected Housing index, rising 60 places to rank 13th in the whole of the UK and first in the region. The...
Melksham and Trowbridge-based property agent Kavanaghs has been instructed by Guildhall Estates to market new retail units at the East Melksham Local Centre. Guildhall is developing the neighbourhood centre on a site about a mile from Melksham town centre next to the town’s new link road. A pre-let to a food outlet has already...
