Good Energy, the Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier and generator, has gained planning consent for its seventh solar farm. Approval for the 24MW solar farm in Dorset was originally granted in November 2013 but its development was halted by a judicial review. The site at Mapperton Farm, near Sturminster Marshall, has now been given the...
Bath brand agency The House is encouraging other city-based firms to back the campaign to turn Bath City FC into a community-owned club after committing £1,000 to buy shares. Nearly £109,000 of the £750,000 funding target has been raised so far for the Big Bath City Bid, which aims to transform the debt-laden club...
Chippenham residents and visitors to the town are being urged to support its privately owned shops as part of national Independent Retailer Month. Nearly half the retail units in the town are independently owned – reflecting a growing trend across the South West in particular for smaller, locally owned stores to set up and...
Commercial law firm Thrings, which has an office in Bath, has advised on the sale of a solar farm that will be one of the UK’s largest when it starts generating power next year. The 165-acre Wroughton Airfield Solar Park, on a former Second World War RAF air base near Swindon, has been sold...
A 140-mile walk from Bath to London has raised more than £15,000 to help preserve and reinvigorate Bath’s historic Abbey for future generations. The seven-day trek was organised in aid of Footprint, the £19.3m development scheme to repair the Abbey’s collapsing floor, install an eco-friendly heating system using Bath’s hot springs and create additional...
Ambitious plans for a new international automotive research centre led by the University of Bath have been revealed. The facility at the Bristol & Bath Science Park, along with more space for growing businesses and improved training provision for the UK composites sector, have been announced by a newly created steering committee set up to...
Marshfield Farm Ice Cream has won gold in the annual Taste of the West Awards for its new salted caramel ice cream. Judges in the ice cream and sorbet category commented on the ice cream’s “excellent flavour”, describing it as “very well balanced and moreish”. The ice cream, available at restaurants and scooping sites...
Before the Budget Business West – the organisation that runs Bath Chamber of Commerce – called for a focus on infrastructure, exports and the skills gap. Managing director Phil Smith said today: “Our nation’s roads and apprentices got a cordial mention , international trade was almost utterly absent. “Also missing was a...
The CBI described today’s Budget as double-edged for business and branded the Chancellor’s flagship introduction of a National Living Wage of £7.20 next April as “a big gamble”. It also called the apprentice levy “a blunt tool” to force more businesses to take on trainees. Director-general John Cridland said: “Firms will welcome measures to...
Many of the measures in Chancellor George Osborne’s Summer Budget got a warm welcome from Bath business figures – particularly support for small businesses. Dominic Bourquin, corporate tax partner at Bath accountancy firm Monahans, said the Budget had been good for business and had taken away some of the uncertainty for employers, business owners...
