The Institute of Directors South West Director of the Year Awards celebrated best business practice, with the winners demonstrating the breadth and depth of talent in the region’s boardrooms. Winners ranged from the West of England’s largest bus operator to a recycling firm behind a state-of-the-art waste handling centre...
Regional private commercial property consultancy ETP has strengthened its team with the appointment of two new staff members and the qualification to fully qualified chartered surveyor of another. Based in Clifton with an office in Chepstow, ETP has achieved steady growth over the past two years, which has prompted...
Bristol has been named as the UK’s second-best city outside London for business in league table that rates major urban centres on their appeal as places to run and grow knowledge-based companies. The ranking of 21 towns and cities, compiled for Management Today magazine, was topped by Manchester with...
The first build-to-rent development in Bristol has been launched, ushering in a new type of accommodation that aims to fill a gap in the city’s highly competitive housing market. The 194-apartment Hawkins & George scheme at Finzels Reach, opposite Castle Park in the city centre, is operated by London-based...
The Bristol office of global civil engineering consultancy WSP has chosen the city’s hospital charity Above & Beyond as its charity of the year. Above & Beyond, which raises around £3m a year for Bristol’s eight city centre hospitals and South Bristol Community Hospital, was voted in by WSP’s...
Leading organic dairy brand Yeo Valley has teamed up with Bristol-based creative agency Phoenix Wharf to open its first outlet in London. The two-storey café, shop and workspace on Queensway – between Hyde Park and Notting Hill – acts as a showcase for Blagdon-based Yeo Valley in the capital a...
A workplace parking levy scheme could be introduced by Bristol City Council to fund its planned mass transit scheme, Mayor Marvin Rees said this week as he outlined measures aimed at limiting the impact of climate change on the city. In a speech to coincide with Clean Air Day,...
Flexible office space is set to double in Bristol over the next five years, according to research from global property consultants JLL – but it says the trend is not just about co-working’. The flex-space market is expanding rapidly in the city, with new entrants such as London-based Runway...
Unregulated short-term lets and private properties listed on Airbnb in Bristol have delivered a £800,000 blow to the city’s hotels and B&Bs during the Cricket World Cup, according to their pressure group. The Bristol Hoteliers Association, which represents 40 hotels in the city providing more than 4,000 beds for tourists and business guests,...
Demolition of Speedwell Swimming Baths has started following a deal between a building firm and a housing association to provide much-needed affordable homes for East Bristol. Bath-based Crossman Homes is re-developing the high-profile site on Whitefield Road with Yarlington Housing Group. Bristol City Council has allocated £1,860,000 to Yarlington...
Bristol has been named as the UK’s second most resilient city in the fight for retail survival now gripping the country’s high streets and town centres. However, it will only overcome the growing threat from online shopping and rapidly changing spending patterns by ‘repurposing’ much of its retail heart,...
A £175m mixed-use scheme that includes modern workspace, new homes, an apart-hotel, cafes and restaurants could be built on a landmark site close to Bristol city centre. London-based property developer First Base has acquired the 2.25-acre site in Old Market for its first South West project. The site, to...
Global real estate advisor Colliers International has made three senior promotions in its Bristol office. Amy Brooksbank has been appointed an associate director in the parks, sports and marinas team while Ed Jefferson from its hotels agency and James Skelly, who works in the rating team, both become senior surveyors. Amy’s primary focus...
