Bath-headquartered regional law firm Royds Withy King has strengthened its property disputes team in the city with the appointment of associate Sarah Taylor. Sarah, pictured, joins from the Bristol head office of national firm Bevan Brittan, where she helped NHS trusts, housing associations and other clients to resolve their property disagreements. She brings significant...
Bath’s business scene is buzzing with bags of optimism and plentiful opportunities, according to stand holders and visitors at yesterday’s Bath Expo. The city’s largest event of its kind, the Bath Expo attracted hundreds of attendees to the Assembly Rooms, where they could chat to a wide range of businesses which had taken the...
Experts in the Bath office of law firm Stone King are warning that big increases in probate fees will hit local families particularly hard due to the city’s high property values. The Ministry of Justice has announced plans to increase the fees payable after death from May which could leave beneficiaries of the most...
Alice Nunn, an in-house planner at Bath-based planning, design and regeneration consultancy Nash Partnership, has been elected as a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), increasing the practice’s complement of chartered town planners to four. To gain membership, Alice, pictured, had to undertake an assessment, which included submitting a portfolio across a...
Small business support group Enterprise Nation is to head west again to stage its flagship female-focused event, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs. The event, the largest of its kind in the UK, has been held in Bristol since it was launched six years ago. Taking place this year on October 20, it will attract...
The West of England’s property industry has rounded on Chancellor Philip Hammond, accusing him of failing to listen to pleas to ease the burden of higher business rates. While the Budget included measures to help some business, critics called it too little, too late and said most still faced swingeing increases. Business rate experts at...
The Local Government Association (LGA) welcomed the move giving councils £300m to provide discretionary business rates relief. Chair of its resources board, Claire Kober, said: “We have long argued that giving councils the freedom and funding to set discounts and reliefs locally would help them better support small businesses and local economies. “We are...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, described Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Budget as “underwhelming” but warned there were some measures that will make firms nervous. These included the National Insurance increase for the self-employed – which it feared could dampen entrepreneurship – and the impact of business rate rises, despite help for some...
Business organisation the CBI’s director-general Carolyn Fairbairn described today’s Budget as a “breakthrough for skills”. She said: “There has never been a more important time for the UK to sit at the global top table of technical education for young people. “Firms will be looking for ongoing partnership with the government as they try...
The South West office of national commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has appointed a new surveyor to its expanding valuation division. Roseanne Falconer, pictured, an RICS registered valuer, will focus on development appraisals and investment property for secured lending purposes in her new role. Based in LSH’s Bristol office, she will across the region alongside...
