Bristol City Council is to invest substantially in transforming Gainsborough Square, Lockleaze – the site of a former community centre – into a modern local centre for shopping, leisure and local travel. A report to Cabinet on April 26 will recommend the council uses its own funding, sale of assets and prudential...
The number of people unemployed in the South West rose during the last quarter despite the jobless rate edging down nationally from a 12-year high of 8.4% to 8.3%. Some 179,000 people were out of work across the region between December 2011 and February 2012, according to the Office...
Budget airline EasyJet has said that it will introduce a year-round service to Copenhagen from Bristol this autumn. It follows Ryanair's announcement on Wednesday that it will launch Bristol's 8th route to Poland, flying three times a week to Warsaw Modlin from October 30. Easyjet will fly to Copenhagen...
Commercial property tenants have been warned to double check the small print on break clauses in their leases following a court case in Bristol which has left one firm more than £300,000 out of pocket. The High Court ruling was made in favour of landlords who challenged their tenant’s...
Hargreaves Lansdown, the Bristol-based independent financial services provider and asset management group, continues to buck tough economic conditions with assets under administration in the three months to March 31 topping £26bn. That was an 11% increase on the £23.4bn total in the previous three months and easily outperformed the 5.5% rise in the...
Developers of large warehouses – so-called big sheds – are starting to buy sites in the West, positioning themselves for an upturn in demand, according to commercial property advisors GVA. However, the firm’s annual Industrial Intelligence report warns that the region is facing a shortage of good quality accommodation because of the lack...
Bristol-based aero-engineers working on Rolls-Royce's innovative short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) technology are expected to benefit from a politically-embarrassing U-turn by David Cameron over the UK's next-generation fighter aircraft. The Prime Minister is widely-tipped to announce the Government will buy the F-35B variant of the Joint Strike Fighter...
Bristol City Council’s Site Allocations Document has identified 89 brownfield sites in Bristol for building nearly 8,000 new homes. The sites include parcels of land at Hengrove Park and Knowle West. The council is now consulting the public on its ‘preferred approach’ on these sites. Meanwhile Matthew Hiles, of Flax Bourton-based CJH Land is calling...
Bristol Zoo Gardens has appointed a new head of guest services. Chris Page will be responsible for overseeing admissions, guest experience, membership, the gift shop, the 12-acre grounds and the general presentation of the zoo. Chris, originally from Yorkshire, joins the zoo’s senior management group and has responsibility for around...
More than 1,100 letters backing Bristol Rovers' proposed £40m stadium at Frenchay have been received by South Gloucestershire Council. The 20,000-seater stadium, which would also include a club shop, conference and teaching space as well as a jogging track and gym, would be a joint venture with the University...
Bristol Water has no plans to restrict supplies to businesses in the city, even though the Environment Agency today declared a drought across the whole of the South West. However, the company said its reservoirs are only 80% full at a time when it would expect them to be 97%...
Barclays has appointed Steve Gamlin as a new relationship director for its corporate banking division in Bristol. Steve, 47, has spent the past eight years at Clydesdale Bank’s Bristol office where he was responsible for providing finance and invoice discounting solutions working with clients in the mid-larger corporate market...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Bristol’s standing as a filmmaking hub has been further strengthened by the launch of a postgraduate degree to help budding wildlife film makers follow in the footsteps of Sir David Attenborough and the BBC’s city-based Natural History Unit. The MA in wildlife film-making has been...
