Bath businesses still have time to take part in a major exercise on the shape of the city’s transport system over the next decade. More than 400 individuals and businesses have already taken part in a six-week consultation period on Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Transport Delivery Action Plan. The plan aims to identify...
Bath’s pandemic-hit meetings and events industry is to get free access to a pioneering scheme that allows events staged in different cities to link up through live-streaming technology. Nationwide initiative Hybrid Event Solutions UK (HESUK) has been launched by the convention bureaus covering England’s main cities – including the recently-launched regional body that promotes...
Bath residents are being urged to show their love for the city’s independent businesses this Valentine's Day by spending locally. Bath’s Business Improvement District (BID) – the organisation representing nearly 500 firms in the city centre – is encouraging people to support city businesses this Sunday by taking part in Love Local Day. Over...
Property agents are offering a rare chance to buy a large warehouse and distribution complex with offices and a showroom ahead of its current occupier relocating. The freehold 49,452 sq ft multi-unit site in Warminster, pictured, currently occupied by Bath-based licensed giftware wholesaler Half Moon Bay, is on the market with a guide price...
Rengen, the Bath property company behind a number of the city’s recent high-profile redevelopments, has secured a £40m finance agreement to fund a new raft of developments across the South West. The debt funding agreement with the real estate division of Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), the London-based global alternative asset manager, will be used to buy...
Bath’s promotion as a prime location for international conferences and business events is to be stepped up with the launch of a new regional convention bureau. Instead of marketing the city as a standalone location to the global meetings industry – as it has been for the past 18 years by destination marketing organisation...
Bath-based law firm Mogers Drewett has launched a campaign to collect and donate 50 laptops this month to help bridge the digital divide made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. ‘Fifty in February’ will support the work of Wiltshire Digital Drive (WDD), which was set up last year by a group of businesses in Bath and...
In a surprise move and with only a week to go until the 2019/20 tax return filing deadline, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced on January 25 that it would not be charging the usual automatic late filing penalties of £100 for any 2019/20 tax returns that were not filed by January 31, 2021....
More than 370,000 small businesses in England and Wales could be eligible to claim via their business interruption insurance policies for disruption during the first Covid-19 national lockdown, following the Supreme Court’s important ruling. This ruling substantially allowed the appeal brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and campaign groups Hiscox Action Group and...
Business confidence among South West firms has slumped to the lowest in England as the latest lockdown pushes sales down further and puts more pressure on staffing levels. Just 11% for businesses in the region expect trading levels to have returned to pre-pandemic levels by this time next year while one-in-five expect to have...
