The High Court has dismissed the legal challenge brought against the Planning Inspectorate’s permission for Bristol Airport’s expansion. The Planning Inspectorate decided last February to allow the airport to increase its annual limit on passengers from 10m to 12m after North Somerset Council rejected the plan, which includes major investment...
Tom Morris, head of global real estate advisor CBRE’s Bristol office, is to become managing director for its Midlands & South region. In his new role, Tom, pictured, will be responsible for the overall management, strategic direction and growth of the business across CBRE’s offices in Birmingham and Southampton...
Monday January 30 Final: SThree Q3 result: Larsen & Toubro Trading announcements: Computacenter, DP Eurasia Tuesday January 31 Interims: NWF Group, ITM Power Trading announcements: Hochschild Mining, Pets At Home Group, Diversified Energy Economic announcements: BRC Shop Price Index, Mortgage Approvals, Consumer Credit, M4 Money Supply, Nationwide House Price Index Wednesday February 1 Finals: Glencore,...
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 Geoff Roberts, founder of boutique tech sector consultancy The Data House, answers our 10 questions. What was the LAST: Film you watched? The Banshees of Inisherin at the Everyman. An Oscar-nominated film...
Legal website RollOnFriday has named Bristol-headquartered Burges Salmon as the country’s best law firm to work at for the second year in a row – with one employee praising it for being “run by humans . . . not psychopaths”. It also won the title in 2017 having been joint...
Confidence among the South West’s small businesses has plunged to the lowest level since the country emerged from Covid lockdowns, according to a new survey. The latest quarterly confidence report from the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) reveals that fears of inflation, falling consumer demand and the general cost...
A Bristol-based tech firm founded by two former defence intelligence officers has been acquired by a business behind some the most technically advanced data and communications systems used by governments. Geollect, which was launched in 2017 by Cate Gwilliam, who worked with the US National Geospatial Agency, and Richard...
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright has continued to expand its South West construction practice, securing further appointments to advise a wide variety of professional firms in the sector. Clients now include architects, landscape architects, interior designers, planning consultants, structural engineers, transport consultants, building surveyors, quantity surveyors and...
Bristol-based engineering design, energy and sustainability consultancy Hydrock has taken over a sensor technology specialist in its third acquisition of the past 12 months. SPLtrack, which was founded in 2013, describes itself as an ideas factory that challenges convention. Its clients include Silverstone, the home of the British Grand...
Teams from across the Bristol’s business community will swap the workplace for the rugby field to try to raise money for Bristol Bears Community Foundation. Staff from the Foundation – which supports communities across in the South West through programmes tackling education, participation, health, and inclusion – have teamed...
A commitment to sustainability by transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD), including in its Bristol office, has once again been recognised in a major awards scheme. The Planet Mark Awards recognise organisations and individuals that have gone above and beyond to maximise their impact in three key areas...
Barclays has appointed James Jordan as head of mid-corporate to lead its mid-corporate market team in the South West. James, pictured, has joined from HSBC UK, where he spent more than two decades in a variety of senior roles across its corporate and commercial divisions. More recently he led...
Triodos UK, the Bristol-headquartered ethical bank, has helped rewilding charity Heal acquire its first landholding with a £3.75m loan. The funding, which Heal will use to create a nature reserve on 460 acres near Bruton, Somerset, pictured, is Triodos Bank’s first loan to a rewilding project and is believed...
