The West of England is on the brink of its biggest single biggest development project in a generation after the long-expected Chinese investment in the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station was confirmed this week. The final go-ahead for the £18bn project is now expected within two weeks. With that decision now...
With just two days to go, the Festival of Female Entrepreneurs is shaping up to be one of the biggest business events in the West this year. Hundreds of business owners – men and women – will descend on the Colston Hall in Bristol this Thursday for the one-day entrepreneurial extravaganza. Tickets to the keynote...
The need for Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) to continue for another five years and for more powers to be devolved from London to the region were among the calls to action at an economic seminar and panel debate staged by Barclays. BID chief executive Andrew Cooper spoke at the event on the benefits...
Graduate surveyor Josh Bryant has been appointed by national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) to bolster its growing South West-based lease advisory team. Josh, pictured, graduated last year with a first-class honours degree in Property Investment and Management from the University of the West of England (UWE), which included a one-year placement in...
Bath-based law firm Mowbray Woodwards is holding a free commercial property breakfast briefing next month aimed at business owners and managers who are thinking about moving or have queries about their existing premises. The event at Bailbrook House on November 6 will cover the key property topics ranging from service charges, maintenance and repair...
Bath Rugby is to apply for temporary planning consent to improve facilities at the Rec and increase capacity by 1,000 while it continues to push for the ground’s redevelopment. The club said the four-year “interim solution” would allow it to maintain its existing configurations of the North and South Stands as well as the...
A Bath property developer has started work on a £50m business park which is one of only a handful across the south of England capable of attracting an occupier looking for 250,000 sq ft in a single building. The 35-acre Hawke Ridge Business Park on the A350 corridor between Trowbridge and Westbury will offer...
A free seminar is being staged by estate and lettings agent Andrews to give landlords across the West of England specialist legal guidance. The event in Keynsham on Monday October 19 is aimed at helping landlords avoid legal pitfalls ranging from evictions to fire safety rules and follows a highly popular series of similar...
National commercial property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has strengthened its regional office by appointing an associate director to head its lease advisory team. James Banks will work closely with LSH’s agency and building surveying teams to identify long-term opportunities in the South West as it continues to position itself as a ‘powerhouse’ region....
Firms will want assurances that the business rates reform announced by the Chancellor this week will not more higher taxes. That’s the view of Business West, the region’s largest business organisation representing 16,000 firms and which runs the Bath Chamber of Commerce. George Osborne made the surprise announcement at the Conservative Party conference that...
