Facilities management business Almeda has recruited Ben Arbery, who joins the Keynsham-based family business as associate director. He will work alongside Brady George, who recently took over from his father Gary as managing director. Ben spent 15 years working in the financial services industry, initially as a financial adviser and mortgage broker and latterly...
By Robin Phillips, residential property partner at Mowbray Woodwards. The Bath property market is booming. Estate agents are reporting that London buyers relocating to the city now make up some 40% of local prime sales. According to a recent report, the number of Londoners buying homes outside the capital has jumped 50% in a...
By Andrew Cooper, chief executive of Bath Business Improvement District (BID). As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city of Bath is a highly successful tourist destination. It is not hard to understand why, as its beauty and heritage appeals to a great many people around the world who are prepared to invest in...
Six designs for the first new bridge across the River Avon in Bath for more than 100 years are to be unveiled as part of an international design competition. The 65m-long Bath Quays cycle and footbridge forms a key part of Bath and North East Somerset Council’s (B&NES) masterplan for the £1bn Riverside Enterprise...
Property agency and real estate firm Colliers International has expanded its South West regional office with three new appointments. Business rates specialist Steve Plowman has been appointed as a director, covering the South West and South Wales. He joins Colliers’ rating team with 27 years’ experience spanning retail and mineral valuations. This includes seven...
Ambitious plans for an innovative, London Eye-style tourist attraction that will carry visitors 65m above Bath to give them stunning views across the city and beyond have been revealed this week. Described as a world’s first, the AquEye will feature a single revolving glass observation pod suspended between two slim, carbon fibre masts. The...
A pilot scheme offering free parking in Chippenham town centre after 3pm on Thursday afternoons has been launched by the town’s Business Improvement District (BID). The Free After Three scheme, launched yesterday, is aimed at boosting trade for town centre businesses and follows extensive research by the BID into the use of car parks...
A space-saving automated parking tower for bicycles developed and manufactured in Germany is being launched in the UK by Bath-based Cardok. The firm, which aims to revolutionise parking, has secured the UK distributorship for the multi-storey Radhaus cycle garage, pictured – a tower that can park up to 120 bikes securely, protecting them from...
Bath Racecourse has revealed a multi-million pound investment plan to transform the Lansdown venue with a new grandstand and major refurbishment of its existing hospitality building. The plans, which have been submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council, are aimed at substantially increasing its income from corporate and other events on non-racedays while...
West of England property group Andrews has strengthened its land and new homes team with the appointment of James Read to the role of land and development manager. James, pictured, who will be based at the group’s Keynsham headquarters, joins from Bath-based social enterprise Curo, where he was land and acquisition manager with responsibility...
