Bath-based full-fibre broadband provider Truespeed is aiming to more than double the size of its network this year having achieved record growth in 2022. The firm expanded its footprint by 25,000 properties across the South West last year – taking the total to 60,000 – connecting 13,000 customers and hiring more than 80 new employees. This year it...
A hotel near Bath is to give discounts on overnight stays if guests commit to helping make it a more sustainable venue, including taking quicker showers and reusing towels. Bowood Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort, pictured, says the aim is to educate guests on its energy conserving practices by encouraging them to adopt sustainable...
The High Court has dismissed the legal challenge brought against the Planning Inspectorate’s permission for Bristol Airport’s expansion. The Planning Inspectorate decided last February to allow the airport to increase its annual limit on passengers from 10m to 12m after North Somerset Council rejected the plan, which includes major investment in the existing terminal building,...
Interaction, the Bath-based office design company, has taken on an experienced senior designer who has helped create some of the South West’s most acclaimed new workplaces. Sarah Pasquall, pictured, joins from the Bristol office of architecture practice AWW, where spent nearly six years as a senior interior designer working on large-scale building projects. These...
Confidence among the South West’s small businesses has plunged to the lowest level since the country emerged from Covid lockdowns, according to a new survey. The latest quarterly confidence report from the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) reveals that fears of inflation, falling consumer demand and the general cost of doing business left optimism...
A pioneering energy-based net zero housing policy being introduced by Bath & North East Somerset Council has been slammed as ‘undeliverable’ by the building industry’s trade association. The council has become the first in England to successfully adopt the move, which it sees as part of its commitment to tackling the climate emergency. It...
National engineering consultancy Rodgers Leask has appointed Dave Bathurst as regional director as it aims to increase its presence in the South West. Dave, pictured, has joined to head the firm’s civil engineering team in Bristol, with Rodgers Leask saying he would be using his extensive international track record of working in different disciplines, sectors...
Council chiefs have pledged that Bath’s new Fashion Museum will still go ahead despite the project failing to secure any investment from the government’s ‘levelling-up’ fund. Bath & North East Somerset Council had bid for £20m – more than half the project’s total budget – through the controversial scheme, which has been widely criticised...
The owners of Bath’s SouthGate shopping centre have hailed the decision by two major retailers to move there as a sign that the city is weathering the icy economic conditions. Fashion retail chain Zara has agreed to open a 32,000 sq ft store in SouthGate, pictured, – the brand’s first outlet in the city...
Eleven of the most luxurious suites at Bath’s five-star Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa have been refurbished. The work, masterminded by Paulton-based interior design group Clayton & Company, has created a contemporary, stylish feel while respecting the building’s historic Georgian past and celebrating the classic architecture, grand fireplaces and intricate mouldings, the Grade I listed hotel said. Each of the suites at the 45-bedroom Georgian...
