A cider shop and a wine merchant will be among the first retailers at Bristol’s independent food and drink hub CARGO to open their doors this weekend as the area continues to become a magnet for discerning shoppers. The scheme at Wapping Wharf on the Harbourside is the first...
Bristol Airport has unveiled plans to address congestion in arrivals following a major overhaul of the security search area for departing passengers. The £2.3m project will increase the number of passport control points from 10 to 17 when it opens next spring, including 10 of the latest ePassport gates...
The largest speculative industrial development in Bristol for 20 years got underway this week, with construction starting on 580,000 sq ft of prime space. The building work marks the first phase of Horizon38, a 65-acre, £120m business park on the former Rolls-Royce East Works site at Patchway. The scheme’s...
Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios – whose recent productions have included Poldark, Sherlock and Wolf Hall – have secured a £692,000 investment boost from owners Bristol City Council. The capital investment, approved at the council’s cabinet earlier this month, will pay for improvements to the site, including new roofs, production offices...
Michelin-starred chef Josh Eggleton has teamed up with former Butcombe Brewery managing director Guy Newell and their families to take over a popular Bristol pub. The Kensington Arms in Redland is already one of Bristol’s best-known gastropubs. It will now undergo a short refurbishment to give it a more...
Construction company Beard has recruited Sean Franks as contracts manager for its expanding Bristol office. Sean, pictured, will be responsible for managing Beard’s building contracts across the city and surrounding area, controlling costs and keeping projects on track. Swindon-headquartered Beard opened its Bristol office last year and has since...
Bristol upmaket bangers-and-mash restaurant and bar The Clifton Sausage is to open a branch in Bath later this month. The firm is to take over the city’s former Cow Shed restaurant. The 80-cover restaurant in a Grade II listed Georgian building on The Paragon will re-open under the Clifton Sausage name...
A landmark office building on a long-derelict piece of wasteland in Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone has secured outline planning. The Anvil will provide 83,223 sq ft of grade A office space over seven floors on the boarded-up site on Avon Street. Described by its developers as “the workplace...
The UK could ‘self-harm’ from a post-Brexit attitude to foreign workers being encouraged by Theresa May’s government, former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Bristol business leaders. Leaving the EU could also have a ‘sting in the tail’ for those who voted for it thinking it would lead...
Three units have been snapped up at a North Bristol office park in quick succession – leaving just one vacant building. Oasis Healthcare, The Salvation Army Trustee Co and Rock Solid Knowledge have taken space at Vantage Office Park, Taunton-based Summerfield Developments’ scheme being marketed by Hartnell Taylor Cook...
Conflict management expert Felix Spender has visited India as part of the country’s ambitious plan to develop ‘smart cities’ and help lift millions of people out of poverty. The former army officer, who launched his business North Light Solutions in 2011, met politicians, university representatives and business owners at...
Bristol’s future economic growth faces huge challenges because it is being held back by complacency combined with massive inequality, low productivity and poor infrastructure. The stark warning emerged from Mayor Marvin Rees’ first State of the City lecture, when he vowed to stop Bristol being a “city fractured by...
Regional construction company Beard, which opened an office in Bristol last year, has been appointed by the ss Great Britain Trust to build its new national Brunel museum. Beard is working with Bristol-based Alec French Architects on the museum, part of the £7.2m Being Brunel project, which will explore...
