The hunt has started for a new chair for Designability, the Bath charity that has been providing its unique Wizzybug wheelchairs free of charge to very young disabled children since 2011. Designability, which began life in 1968 as the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, has helped more than 300,000 disabled children and adults live with...
Bath-based landscape design practice Grant Associates is to work on another major project in Australia – a groundbreaking development that will include the world’s tallest vertical garden. The Southbank by Beulah scheme will feature a dual skyscraper in Melbourne’s fastest- growing and most densely populated suburb. It will be the first project in the city...
The government’s new Innovation Strategy, which aims to turbo charge the UK’s most pioneering businesses, will fall flat unless its key decisions are devolved to the regions, according to West of England Metro Mayor Dan Norris. In his latest broadside against what he sees as over control by Westminster, the Labour mayor said there...
Housing construction and development company Aequus, which was set up by Bath & North East Somerset Council to create sustainable homes that meet local demand, has been shortlisted for a prestigious award for its redevelopment of the council’s former offices in Keynsham. The 1960s building had been derelict for three years when Aequus took...
One of Bath’s largest office buildings is to be upgraded to take account of new ways of working post-Covid. Royal Mead, pictured, next to Bath Spa station, will provide 24,700 sq ft of Grade A accommodation when work is completed in April next year. The building’s owners described the £4m work as a “comprehensive...
Bath’s food businesses are being urged not to bin their surplus produce but to redirect it to FareShare Southwest, the region’s largest food redistribution charity, as it gears up to prevent children going hungry during the school holidays. The food will help the charity, whose mission is to fight hunger while tackling food waste,...
Two Bath architecture firms behind some of the most exciting developments of recent decades have been selected to work on a new vision for a world-leading zoo in Bristol. Pioneering landscape architects Grant Associates and design practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) have been appointed by the Bristol Zoological Society to the team of architects,...
Environmental development firm Engain has helped a major reclamation project on Gibraltar get the green light – the consultancy’s latest project in a 20-plus year partnership with the territory’s government. The Frome-based firm, which specialises in projects involving the environment, ecology and climate change, provided environmental guidance to Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar on the 60,000 sq m...
A beer made with foraged raspberries has helped sales soar to record levels at Mendip farmhouse brewery Yonder. Based near Binegar, Yonder was founded three years ago by Jasper Tupman and Stuart Winstone, who formerly worked at the Wild Beer Company near Shepton Mallet. The pair share a passion for foraging, fermentation and flavour...
The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed civil engineer Richard Bonner as its new chair, replacing Prof Steve West, who has been in the role since 2017. Richard, pictured, joined the LEP board two years ago and also served on the West of England Economic Recovery Taskforce. He is UK chief operating...
