Plans to develop a hub for Bath’s burgeoning creative sector, potentially generating up to 300 jobs, have taken a leap forward with the official launch of the Craneworks project. The ambitious £15m scheme aims to regenerate the derelict Stothert & Pitt factory buildings on Lower Bristol Road into a world-class centre for innovation in...
Chippenham-based logistics group Wincanton has refinanced its main banking facility for a further five-year term to support its growth ambitions. The refinancing, provided by HSBC, RBS, Barclays, Lloyds and AIB and announced today in a statement to the London Stock Exchange, includes a new £170m facility, which the group said had improved pricing. ...
Bath-based landscape architecture firm Grant Associates is to help design a new university in Vietnam after teaming up with US architects to win an international competition. Grant Associates is working with Boston-based Machado and Silvetti Associates on the project for the Vietnamese-German University Campus in Binh Duong Province. The university is a unique collaboration...
Oscar-winning film producer Lord Puttnam has praised Bath Spa University’s new academic building as one that “any university anywhere in the world would envy”. Officially opening the building, called Commons, at the university’s Newton Park campus, he said: “Having walked around Commons, the facilities are absolutely stunning. “All of a sudden, and for the...
A prominent shop on Keynsham High Street has been to a local independent trader – a signal, according to property consultants Alder King, of a renewed demand in the town for well-located retail units. “It said the High Street had weathered the recession well as it provides its local market with a good variety...
The South West is outperforming most other UK regions for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in a highly-competitive for market, according to research published this week. The region achieved a 44% increase in the number of FDI projects last year, going from 15 to 27 – the highest number since 2010. Although London remained...
The development director at GreenSquare, the Chippenham-headquartered social housing and care provider, has received a Winston Churchill medallion for researching affordable housing in the US. Vic O’Brien’s study, undertaken through the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, looked at the US’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit system (LIHTC) with a view to seeing if a similar...
A founding partner of Bath-based wealth management firm Epoch has joined an elite group of UK financial planners by becoming a fellow of two leading professional bodies. Dr Markas Gilmartin, pictured, is one of only 80 fellows of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP), having recently gained a masters degree in financial planning and...
International specialist software company Quality System Solutions has moved its head office to Chippenham to meet its expansion plans. The firm, behind the international cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software CallPro CRM, has taken a five-year lease on a 2,400 sq ft unit at Lansdowne Court on the town’s Bumpers Farm business park. It...
A £2m school communications centre and recital hall designed by Bath architects Mitchell Taylor Workshop has won a prestigious architecture award, beating 21 other nominations from across the South of England. The Pangbourne College Harding Communications Centre near Reading topped the category for design and construction excellence in the Royal Institute of British Architects...
