Bath architects Stubbs Rich have underscored a strong start to 2013 by winning the professional services category at the Bath Life Awards. Judges praised the practice’s support for graduates, its 20% growth in turnover last year, and the quality of its work. Stubbs Rich is supporting three members of staff through their five-year university...
The Institute of Directors has moved its South West regional headquarters to the Bristol & Bath Science Park. IoD director general Simon Walker visited the new offices where he met regional IoD representatives including South West chairman Richard Ayre, South West director Simon Face and regional staff, along with the Bristol & Bath Science...
SelectScience, the online publisher based at Corston, near Bath, has appointed Scarlett Swallow and Clare Cole to the roles of online marketing manager and content editor respectively following a period of strong growth. Scarlett has spent the past two years working for a leading independent legal publisher in Bristol and brings a wealth of...
Sainsbury’s has submitted proposals to regenerate Bath Western Riverside East with a development that could create around 1,000 jobs and includes a new foodstore, creative employment and office workspace, around 280 apartments and townhouses, and a revitalised river frontage. The supermarket group says the plans will bring a wide range of economic and social...
Law firm Withy King has renewed its commitment to Bath city centre by signing a new lease on its office in Northumberland Buildings. The office is home to the firm’s private client practice, including wills, tax planning, estate management, residential property and family services. Lease negotiations were led by Philip Marshall, commercial partner and...
Two prominent retail units in Chippenham town centre are being marketed by property consultants Alder King. The properties at 7 and 8 New Road provide mid-terrace ground floor accommodation in a busy central location and are available to let on new leases. Unit 8, occupied by Bridge Brasserie, has a 474 sq ft (44...
Property and construction professionals in the Bath area are being urged to follow in the footsteps of the teams behind the city’s Dyson Centre for Neo Natal Care and Batheaston Primary School who last year landed two of the South West’s leading building awards. The neo natal centre and school were category winners in...
The National Trust has relocated a team based at its Eastleigh Court base in Warminster to a new office near Bristol as it pursues plans to sell the 19th century listed building. The building, pictured right, will remain the home for the Trust's South West Wiltshire Hub in the short term while a permanent...
Housebuilding and construction group Galliford Try has won a £16.3m contract to build the 5-star Gainsborough Hotel in Bath by Malaysian group YTL Hotels. The project will involve redeveloping the Grade-II listed Gainsborough Building in the city centre and two other buildings into a 99 bedroom hotel with a health spa and conference facilities....
Shepton Mallet-based Framptons Transport Services is to open a £5m, 85,000 sq ft distribution centre on the town’s outskirts as part of its collaboration with pet food supplier Crown Pet Foods of Castle Cary. The project has already created 50 jobs since the summer, taking Frampton’s workforce to more than 200. Once it is...
