Bath workspace design consultancy Interaction has helped a software development firm named as one of the best places to work in the UK expand into new offices designed to promote staff wellbeing. Bristol-based Ghyston, which was founded in 2012 by husband-and-wife team Emily and Ric Hill, is seeking to build a happy workplace community...
Another Bath hotel is to embark on an extensive refurbishment project after its plans were approved by councillors. The Grade-I listed Parade Park Hotel on North Parade, pictured, will undergo ‘essential repair and refurbishment’, its owners South African asset management firm Fairtree has said. The work on the 33-bedroom hotel will also create a...
Bath’s Beckford’s Tower and Museum is to reopen this weekend following a £3.9m refurbishment – with visitors being able to step inside a 19th century grotto hidden for more than 100 years. The project, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and other public and private funders, began in October 2022 on the tower, pictured,...
Two Bath youth charities are inviting businesses based in the area to get involved in a new outdoor fundraising challenge. The Big BaNES 100k runs until 27 September to support life-changing young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing services delivered by Mentoring Plus and Off The Record Bath & North East Somerset. The challenge invites fundraisers...
Bath legal and financial planning firm Mogers Drewett has made a record number of promotions – including the first non-lawyer to become a partner. The appointments include four new partners and other promotions across the commercial and private client teams at the firm, which also has offices in Wells, Sherborne and Frome. The moves...
Furniture, fixtures and fittings from Bath’s iconic Francis Hotel, ranging from four poster beds to artworks, are to be auctioned off next month ahead of its £13m refurbishment. The sale, which will be held on 3 July by Paulton-based specialist hospitality auctioneers Pro Auction, will also include writing tables, seating lamps and drapes along...
Hollis, one of the UK’s largest real estate consultancies, took to the water iin Bath to celebrate its 30-year anniversary in the South West. The firm, which has grown its Bristol office in recent years and now employs 27 staff in the region, staged a party for clients, industry contacts and staff from across...
National self storage firm Vanguard is to open a centre on a high-profile site in Bath where a residential development was previously rejected. The former Regency Laundry site on Lower Bristol Road was snapped up by Vanguard two-and-a-half years ago after a plan to build an innovative co-living scheme with 155 studio apartments was...
The Bath Business Conference is to return for a third year in October with the theme of ‘better business in Bath'. Organiser Bath BID (Business Improvement District) describes the event as being a great opportunity for businesses in the city to come together and “share the challenges of becoming part of a cleaner, greener,...
A University of Bath student has been named as one of the most promising undergraduates in the built environment sector. Safa Al-Hamali, who is studying BSc Hons Architecture, was described by the judges of the Women in Property South West Student Awards 2024 as having the “potential to have a big impact on the industry”. ...
