Bath businesses are being invited to support a transformational skills programme that will create opportunities in the green economy for young people from the city. Green Skills for Jobs and Entrepreneurship has been launched against a backdrop of economic recovery following the Covid pandemic and the demand for 50,000 new jobs in the region by...
The former head of acquisition at communications giant O2 has joined Bath-based full fibre broadband provider Truespeed as its new director of marketing & sales. Melanie Hunter-Yell, pictured, will focus on enhancing Truespeed’s brand and engaging with customers as the firm continues on its mission of expanding its ultrafast network to underserved communities across...
Bath-headquartered housing association and developer Curo is to build nearly 200 homes on the outskirts of Frome after scaling back an earlier plan with 235. The firm, which manages more than 13,000 homes and is builds hundreds of new properties a year, has been granted detailed planning permission by Mendip District Council to build 198...
Bath-based workplace design-and-build consultancy Interaction has landed a multi million-pound contract to design international law firm Osborne Clarke’s new flagship office in Bristol. Interaction, which describes itself as on a mission to banish boring workplaces, will fit-out the interior of the new showpiece building, set to be one of the UK’s greenest office schemes...
Bath’s newest hotel, the Hampton by Hilton Bath City, welcomed its first guests this week, becoming the latest in a flurry of new openings that have greatly increased the availability of rooms in the city. The seven-storey, 220-bedroom hotel, pictured, built on the site of Bath College’s landmark Ralph Allen Building on James Street...
Global real estate advisor CBRE has strengthened its West of England-based UK development and retail investment teams with three new appointments. Director James Blundell and associate director Steph Passey, who both joined from rival firm’s Cushman & Wakefield’s Bristol office, are now part of CBRE’s UK development and residential capital markets team. Meanwhile Richard...
Work is underway on the first socially rented council homes in the city for nearly three decades. The Victorian building on Newbridge Hill, formerly used as council offices, is being converted into seven, one and two-bed apartments as one of the first steps in the city’s new council house building programme. The apartments are...
A landmark student accommodation building has been sold by Bath Spa University to a property investment fund owned by insurance giant Aviva as the market for student flats in the city shows no sign of slowing. Green Park House, pictured, opposite Green Park station, has 461 accommodation units over six floors and is let...
Bath’s historic Abbey Hotel looks set to be expanded after being sold for the second time in four years. New owner, London-based property investment firm Castleforge Partners, has secured an option agreement to acquire two adjoining buildings on North Parade, with plans in place to add 15 large bedrooms to the hotel, pictured, later...
The first major event staged by the Western Gateway economic partnership takes place next month to bring together key figures from business, academia and local and national government on both sides of the Severn to explore the potential of the cross–border powerhouse. Called Green Growth within the Western Gateway, the day-long conference will discuss...
