Bath-based L&C Mortgages, the UK’s largest fee-free broker, is to move its head office into the city’s recently opened Newark Works development in a major success for the Bath Quays regeneration area. L&C described its relocation to the former industrial building, pictured, as marking an exciting new chapter for the firm, underlining its position...
Global property consultancy Savills has relocated its Bath office after 35 years in the same building. The firm, which has a team of residential and rural property experts in the city, now operates out of 2,500 sq ft of renovated and reconfigured space in a Georgian building on Milsom Street, pictured. London-headquartered Savills opened...
A fleet management company is expanding into bigger premises thanks to expert advice from Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett. Fleet Service GB, which provides a range of innovative driver and vehicle management services, has acquired three business units totalling 9,000 sq ft in the village of Notton, near Lacock. The new...
Interaction, the Bath-based workplace design-and-build company, has been certified as a B Corporation, the latest firm in the city to join the movement to use business as a force for good for people and the planet. To gain the accreditation, Interaction had to meet high standards of social and environmental impact with regard to...
Work has started on a £3.5m upgrade of Bristol Airport’s air traffic control tower, the latest in a series of improvements on the site. The 20-year-old facility tower will undergo extensive renovations, improving its appearance and functionality while also meeting the latest building standards and regulations. It will also incorporate environmentally friendly elements such...
Bath-based international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates has attracted widespread praise of its work on a social housing scheme described as “reimagining the almshouse for 21st century inner-city living”. The firm worked with RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann and charity United St Saviours on the scheme of 57 units in Bermondsey, South...
Specialist investor BBRC (Bristol & Bath Regional Capital) has introduced two new senior roles to its team – with a further two to follow within months – as part of its ambitious five-year growth strategy. Paul Dennis-Jones has been appointed as chief investment officer at BBRC, which launched in 2015 as the West of...
Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett has strengthened its residential property team with the arrival of a new partner and an internal promotion. The firm, which also has offices in Wells, Sherborne and Frome, has appointed experienced residential property lawyer Samantha Cook as a partner while Jessica Gregory becomes residential business development...
Creating sustainable, well-designed and inspiring school buildings has earned an architecture firm a major industry accolade. Frome-based NVB Architects won the Education category at the annual Building Design Architect of the Year Awards, topping a shortlist of eight firms. The hotly contested title, which celebrates the very best UK architecture in the education sector,...
Four Bath area hotels have triumphed in one of the sector’s most coveted awards schemes. The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa, No.15 by Guesthouse, Bath, and Homewood Hotel were among the winners at The Boutique Hotelier Awards, the annual celebration of resilience and innovation in the UK hotel industry....
