Bath’s newest hotel has reached a significant construction milestone with its topping out ahead of its targeted opening early next year. The six-storey, 202-bedroom Hampton by Hilton is being built on the site of Bath College’s landmark Ralph Allen Building on James Street West. The hotel is being developed by Dominvs Group, which owns...
An art trail displaying paintings, sculptures and photography in empty shop windows on the theme of nature and climate change is to launch next week to coincide with World Environment Day. The Trowbridge Windows on Nature trail will highlight the devastating fact that a quarter of British mammals are at risk of extinction and 80%...
A business support programme showing how small and medium-sized firms can benefit from sustainable innovation has been launched by world-leading business incubator SETsquared and the University of Bath. The three-year programme, which has been funded by the European Regional Development and available for firms based in the West of England, is aimed at firms...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates, which last week unveiled its design for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, has been appointed to a major regeneration scheme also in West London. The long-anticipated waterfront Brentford Project aims to revitalise the suburb’s centre and establish a new retail, leisure and culinary scene, building on its rich...
Britain’s largest organic dairy brand Yeo Valley is benefitting from an ultra-fast, ultra-reliable full-fibre broadband service across its multiple rural sites thanks to Bath-based broadband provider Truespeed. Family-owned Yeo Valley, best known for its range of organic yogurts, previously relied on no slow, unreliable copper (ADSL) phone lines for its broadband needs. Now, after...
Bath-headquartered law firm Royds Withy King has strengthened its residential property practice with the appointment of partner Mark Scott. Mark, pictured, has joined the firm’s London office from Blake Morgan, where he was a legal director and head of its London residential property team. He was previously a lawyer at Mishcon de Reya. Mark...
Residential property developers Tanda Homes and Mendip Developments have made two further site acquisitions as they continue to grow. The sites are the sixth and seventh acquired by the Frome-based group since 2016 and follow on from its successful developments in Westbury, Ashcott near Street, Frome and Sherborne. Bristol and London law firm Temple...
Bath tourist chiefs are to receive funding from national tourism agency VisitEngland to help promote the city as an ideal place for staycations this spring and summer. With traditional foreign holidays likely to shunned by many people this year to due Covid restrictions, VisitEngland is heavily marketing a range of UK destinations under the...
Accountancy firm Purple Lime has worked with the shareholders of market-disrupting specialist software firm Terrafirma on its acquisition by an international sector leader. Terrafirma, whose proprietary workflow software and data insights have been critical at transforming how decisions are made in property transactions in the UK, was acquired by Dye & Durham Corporation, a...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates has tapped into Chinese design and philosophy for its first garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The practice, best known for producing major eye-catching architectural schemes across the globe for the past 21 years, has taken inspiration from the way China’s third-largest city Guangzhou is being landscaped for...
