A luxury hotel in a highly sensitive landscape setting on Bath’s outskirts has secured planning consent for an expansion. The proposals for Homewood Hotel and Spa at Freshford, drawn up by Bath-based Aaron Evans Architects, include six new luxury guest suites each with their own private terraces and a small meeting and events space....
South West chartered accountancy firm Milsted Langdon has taken a major step towards its ambition of becoming a fully sustainable and innovative business by completing a refurbishment of one of its offices. The transformation of the firm’s Taunton base, its largest, includes a reshaping of the office space to create a more modern work...
Ecommerce fulfilment company Huboo has officially opened its largest UK warehouse so far in a move that has more than doubled its workforce to almost 700. The Bath-founded firm, which increased its revenue by 124% in the year to January, is occupying the new 106,000 sq ft building close to junction 17 of the...
Peter Chmiel, director at Bath-based international landscape architecture practice Grant Associates, has been appointed as one of just six new Fellow members nationally to the Landscape Institute. Fellowship of the Landscape Institute is the highest form of Chartered membership and is awarded to the foremost innovators, leaders and ambassadors across the landscape architecture profession. It...
The Bath-based landscape architect behind Singapore’s iconic Supertrees tourist attraction and the current Superbloom display at the Tower of London is calling for more city spaces to be turned over to nature to boost biodiversity, tourism and wellbeing. Andrew Grant RDI, founder of pioneering landscape architecture practice Grant Associates was lead designer on the...
Spiralling inflation has become the biggest issue for firms in Bath and across the South West, with nearly 70% saying they are worried about its impact on their business, according to a new survey. Big rises in labour costs and utility bills – which have helped take inflation to a 40-year high of 9.1%...
Bath-based workplace design and build company Interaction has appointed the former director of hybrid working at the House of Commons as a specialist workplace strategist. Emma Wharton Love, pictured, was responsible for developing a hybrid working model at the House of Commons during the pandemic involving hundreds of behind-the-scenes staff. Emma was also on...
Bath’s Clean Air Zone, introduced in March last year, has halved the number of high-emission vehicles in the city centre and driven down its previous high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution, according to the first major report into its impact. Bath and North East Somerset Council, which brought in what was then the...
A site manager working for Bath housing firm Curo on its flagship development on the city’s outskirts has won a top industry award for a second consecutive year. Alan Mapston, pictured, senior site manager at Mulberry Park – where Curo is building nearly 700 homes – received the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) Pride...
Bath-headquartered lifestyle and homeware retailer Graham and Green has secured a multi-million pound finance package from Barclays to expand its operations amid spiralling demand. The firm, which opened its first shop in 1974 in Notting Hill, London, and relocated its head office to Bath in 2016, has used the funding to buy a 100,000 sq ft warehouse on Trowbridge’s...
