Tim Stone has become national housebuilder Redrow Homes’ new regional managing director, a role in which he will oversee projects across the South West and South Wales. Tim, pictured, joined the firm four years ago as regional director of its South Wales division, based in Cardiff, before being promoted to managing director in 2017. ...
Confidence levels among West of England firms have dropped significantly – with orders and sales also down – according to the latest survey by Business West, with the region’s largest business organisation blaming Brexit uncertainty for the slump. All measures in the survey of around 500 firms were in the red. Export sales and...
The former manager of Bath’s Royal Crescent Hotel has joined two former management consultants to buy a Georgian country house hotel in the Cotswolds. Simon Austin, who worked at Royal Crescent Bath from August 2017 until last month, has formed a new company called Moonflight with James and Corinna Rae to buy the 18-bedroom...
Curo, the Bath-based housing association, is to host a public information exhibition to showcase its proposals for the city’s first new park in 100 years. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to see detailed designs for the main area of public open space and woodland walk at Curo’s Mulberry Park development, alongside proposed...
Bath-based property developer Rengen has secured a £30m deal that will complete one of the South West’s most creative regeneration schemes. The firm, a subsidiary of the Iesis Group, has acquired the fourth and final phase of the Paintworks mixed-use scheme in Bristol from London-based niche developer Verve Properties. Plans for the development were...
The University of Bath has appointed a world leader in power trains to supply the equipment for its new £70m ‘car of the future’ research facility. Expert teams at the university and Austrian-based AVL will form a unique partnership to advance knowledge in power trains – the engine, transmission, drive shaft and axles –...
A former cement works has been shortlisted as a possible site for a logistics hub linked to Heathrow Airport’s expansion. The West Wiltshire site, owned by construction materials giant Tarmac, has made it onto the 18-strong shortlist for potential locations for four regional hubs which will pre-assemble components for the expanded airport. These components...
A long-established Bath city centre store has re-opened two months after its parent company became another victim of the retail meltdown. Kitchens Cookshop has been a magnet for home cooks and professional chefs since it first opened on Quiet Street in 1978. It quickly established itself as the go-to destination for the best kitchenware...
A third of the bedrooms at Bath’s iconic Abbey Hotel have been renovated to appeal to culture vultures following its of change of ownership a year ago. US-UK group KE Hotels, which bought the four-star, 62-bedroom venue in February last year, has invested what it described as a “significant” sum into upgrading 20 of...
Bath businesses are supporting council plans to make Kingsmead Square in the city centre more pedestrian-friendly – although issues around deliveries and noise still need to be resolved. Around 100 visits to businesses were carried out by officers from Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) to gauge their views ahead of changing the...
