Long-delayed plans to transform Bristol Temple Meads railway station came a step closer today with a new team appointed to develop a masterplan for it and the wider Temple Quarter. The masterplan will cover a 70-hectare zone around the iconic station, pictured, and includes Temple Island – the site...
Each week Bristol Business News gives a prominent member of the city’s business community the last word on its weekly e-bulletin. This week Alex Hall, a partner at Bristol law firm Meade King, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? Final Destination. My son loved...
A six-figure investment from Bristol Private Equity Club has helped fast-growing women’s fitness brand This Mum Runs step up to the next level. Launched with a single Facebook post in 2014, the trailblazing Bristol-based business is now one of the fastest-growing businesses in the city. With 35,000 members worldwide, a team...
The contributions of a number of Bristol business and cultural figures have this week been recognised by UWE by awarding them honorary degrees. Kalpna Woolf, pictured right, the founder of the innovative charity 91 Ways to Build A Global City – which reaches out to unite all the 91...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised on another major energy deal – this time the acquisition of one of the UK’s largest energy storage schemes. It worked with Eelpower, an independent provider of flexible energy services, to enable it to buy the recently-completed 20MW Rock Farm scheme in Shropshire,...
Work on one of the remaining undeveloped parts of Bristol’s Harbourside has reached a milestone with a topping out ceremony. The Bristol office of national property group Acorn and building contractor Speller Metcalfe are redeveloping the city’s former Canon’s Marsh gasworks, now called Brandon Yard, with a 58-home scheme. The new...
A new project designed to inform people aged 55 and over plan for a happy, healthy and fulfilling retirement has been launched in Bristol. Called The Post-Retirement Opportunities (PRO) Project and run by LinkAge Network, it aims to inform people approaching retirement on the opportunities and advice available to...
Lawyers based in the Bristol office of regional firm Ashfords have advised Route 1 International – described as the Tinder of the legal talent industry – on a £275,000 seed funding round. London-based Route 1 International – in which Ashfords itself invested two years ago – uses marketplace technology...
The curator and head of programmes at London contemporary visual arts organisation Gasworks has been appointed as the new director of Bristol’s Spike Island gallery. Robert Leckie, pictured, who will take up the position this autumn, has led the exhibitions, residencies and public programmes at Gasworks since 2011. He...
