In what has been billed as the biggest change in a generation, the process of the 2017 business rates revaluation is well under way. Matthew Midwinter, partner at national property consultant Sanderson Weatherall, considers how Bristol’s retail, office and industrial sectors may be affected. What are business rates? Business...
A new regional Prince’s Trust development committee has been set up by a group of leading business figures to help the organisation raise vital funds to support young people. The committee aims is to raise more than £1m during 2016-17 to go directly towards The Prince’s Trust in the...
International property consultancy JLL’s lead director for the South West & Wales, Jeremy Richards, is to step down from the role at the end of this year and will be replaced by director of project and development services Simon Peacock. Jeremy will take on the role of regional chairman...
A Bristol-led team of building innovators is hoping to develop one of the UK’s most sustainable housing schemes in a suburb of the city. Plans for the 161-home development in Southmead – which would also help tackle the affordable housing crisis in the city - have been submitted to Bristol City...
Bristol-based advertising, design and digital agency Stuff has moved to a new office and continued its growth with a raft of clients and staff hirings. The agency has relocated from Mariner House in Prince Street to The Georgian House on Gas Ferry Road close to Aardman Animation’s HQ and...
Another Bristol independent food retailer is to open in the city’s burgeoning Harbourside food quarter Wapping Wharf. Biblos, known for its fast-food fusion of Middle Eastern and Caribbean cuisine, will become the latest arrival at the development opens its doors this winter. Owners William Clarke and Ariel Czackers...
Five firms from the Bristol area have been included in a prestigious league table of the UK’s fastest-growing privately owned businesses. Dental group Oasis Dental Care, catering equipment supplier Nisbets, recruitment consultancy Resource Solutions Group (RSG), building products supplier Taylor Maxwell and Yeo Valley, the yoghurt and dairy group, will...
National property agency Cushman & Wakefield has expanded its Bristol and South West office by appointing specialist surveyor Steve Puddicombe as senior director. Steve joins the project management & consultancy team from JLL, where he led the Bristol building consultancy team for five years – a role he also...
Business leaders from Bristol and across the West of England will get their first chance to hear the views of the CBI’s recently appointed president and its incoming regional chair at the organisation’s annual dinner next week. The event is traditionally a high point of the region’s business calendar,...
The Bristol office of national property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) has been appointed by the owners of an office scheme in the city to market the site as well as provide a range of consultancy services. LSH’s appointment follows work it provided to Dorset-based Broadshade Group when it...
A showpiece campus scheme on one of Bristol’s most prominent vacant city centre sites has moved a step closer with the appointment of agents to market offices in its first phase. Assembly Bristol on Temple Way will be a mixed-use scheme with office space, public realm, shops, restaurants and...
A major regeneration project to convert two long-empty office buildings into stylish student homes has been completed – the latest schemes to add to the transformation of the city centre. Bristol-based developer Urban Creation sold the site last year to London Stock Exchange-listed student property specialists Empiric Student property...
Landmark Bristol city centre office scheme The Spectrum Building is now 70% let following a number of recent deals. The building’s owners London-based Affinity Global, advised by V7 Asset Management, also based in London, has completed a total of 16,500 sq ft of lettings. Software and outsourcing specialist Civica...
