The Genesis Trust, the Bath charity supporting vulnerable people to overcome poverty and hardship, is to transform a building in Walcot Street into a sophisticated upcycled furniture shop, training centre and offices. They charity is being supporting by Bath & North East Somerset Council, which is securing a community asset transfer of the building...
Bath’s new Riverside Enterprise Area will give it the chance to become the world’s best small city, with an internationally-renowned creative sector attracting talented people. The ambition, unveiled to the city’s business leaders last week in a new ‘vision for Bath’, will build on its Roman and Georgian heritage to create a 21st century...
The West of England’s strength in innovation and its high quality of life is being showcased in Westminster this afternoon with a giant map being unveiled to MPs, Lords and and other key government figures. Compiled by the area’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the map and accompanying policy document champions the area’s success stories...
The leasehold of the 18th-century Jolly Sailor pub and restaurant on the banks of the River Avon at Saltford Lock is for sale with a price tag of nearly £200,000. The Grade II listed pub, believed to date from 1726, attracts trade from passing boats, locals and tourists. Its restaurant has around 80 internal...
The new £3.6m construction skills centre at Wiltshire College’s Trowbridge campus will be officially opened on Wednesday as part of National Apprenticeship Week. The 2,300 sq m purpose-built centre accepted its first students at the start of term and has enabled the college to expand its construction courses. It is now teaching a range...
Ahead of this Sunday’s International Women’s Day, the Association of Women in Property (WiP) is this evening hosting an event to highlight the work of Concern Universal, the charity aiming to bring opportunities to communities worldwide and help to beat poverty. The drinks and tapas reception at The Lido, Clifton, Bristol, which starts at...
Savills has appointed Chloë Clark as senior planner covering the South West. Chloë, pictured, who qualified as a chartered town planner in 2012, joins Savills from Hunter Page Planning in Cheltenham. Chloë has experience of a range of residential and commercial development projects, as well as urban regeneration and rural conversion schemes for a variety...
The first show flat at a major £16.6m student housing development in Bath opened this week as transformation of the historic Twerton Mill neared completion. The scheme will convert the former landmark building on Lower Bristol Road into a state-of-the-art student housing complex. The project is being developed by McLaren Property with construction work...
Keynsham’s striking new civic centre and the innovative Lee Centre at Bath’s Ralph Allen School have been named among the region’s best new buildings by RICS (the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). They appear on the shortlist for the annual RICS South West Awards, putting them head to head with major new schemes such...
Bath firms are greeting positive economic news, such as the latest fall in unemployment, with “faint alarm bells rather than celebratory cheers”, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs Bath Chamber of Commerce, said politicians should now focus on the “significant hurdles” that remained to achieving a lasting recovery. Today’s...
