The region’s largest business organisation has called on the government to ensure firms get essential support and guidance for life outside the EU as the UK today marks its official departure from the world’s biggest trading bloc. While the UK is leaving the European Union at 11pm after 47 years, an 11-month transition period...
A grade II listed building in Bath city centre is being marketed as a possible location for a new restaurant, with the agents describing it as a “once in a generation” opportunity to acquire a landmark site. The Friends Meeting House on York Street has been used as a meeting place by Bath Quakers...
The Bath Pub Company, which owns three outlets in the city, is planning to open a new site this spring. The move follows the ending on Monday of its lease on The Chequers on Rivers Street. The firm has turned down the offer from owner Ei Publican Partnerships of a new lease at the...
Bath luxury hotel Homewood has recruited a number of new staff, including a new general manager and executive head chef, and is also to join the Mr & Mrs Smith Collection, the travel club for hotel lovers. The 21-room hotel in Freshford has taken on Ed Fitzpatrick as general manager from the renown Lygon...
Firms are being invited to enter teams for this year’s Brain of Bath Quiz to help end rough sleeping in the city. Up to 24 corporate teams of 10 will go head to head at the event, staged by Julian House, Bath’s main homeless charity, to raise much-needed awareness and funds to help vulnerable...
National specialist engineering group SES Engineering Services has been appointed by the University of Bath to carry out mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) services worth £12.5m. The contract, to be delivered by SES’s Bristol base, covers the university’s new 11,300 sq m Institute for Advanced Automotive Propulsion Systems (IAAPS), pictured, on the Bristol &...
Bathroom furniture supplier Roper Rhodes’ new-look Bath headquarters has been unveiled following a major design and conversion project by the South West building consultancy team of Carter Jonas, the national property consultancy. The 19,500 sq ft building, pictured, on the Brassmill Lane Trading Estate was transformed by the team, which ensured the high-quality office...
Creating a decarbonisation task force to help Bath address the climate crisis, exploring new ways of using the 8,000 vaults under the city, and establishing partnerships between the main public sector bodies were among the ideas discussed at the launch of a major new initiative. Called Our Shared Future, it brings together the University...
Bath-headquartered regional law firm Royds Withy King has appointed conveyancing executive Tim Bunting to its residential property and private wealth team in the city. Tim, pictured, brings with him nine years’ experience in the residential property sector. He has joined from the Bath office of rival Thrings, where he spent just over four-and-a-half years...
The South West needs its own government minister to champion the case for more funding and spur its economic growth, the CBI’s director general said on a visit to the region. Such a move – along with more autonomy for the West of England’s Metro Mayor over government funding – would ‘power up’ the...
