Lawyers from the Bristol office of international legal practice Osborne Clarke have advised on the acquisition of the largest solar park in the UK. The 220-acre Shotwick site on the Wirral/Flintshire border operates at a 72MW peak capacity and a 50MW AC export capacity. Leading independent infrastructure and private...
Bristol is growing much faster than predicted. But to make this growth manageable, and for everyone in the city to benefit, we must properly plan and control our own future. 2017 gives us an opportunity to do just that, argues James Durie, chief executive of Bristol Chamber of Commerce...
None of us exists in a vacuum. Throughout our daily lives we interact with other people – with varying levels of intensity. But always, we are working and living alongside people who influence us in a million different ways. Making the most of these interactions is how we can...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of...
Bristol and the West of England should aim to become the UK’s first city-region to have full employment – but it must also tackle a huge social divide made worse by spiralling housing costs. The challenge has been thrown down to the soon-to-be-elected Metro Mayor, who will lead a...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has advised on a deal that will develop the first ‘energy barns’ in the UK. The barns will use lithium-ion batteries to store energy that can be released at times of peak demand, helping to stabilise the electricity grid. The first four, which are in...
Bristol entrepreneurs are being invited to attend the second meeting of The Royall Wealth Club, the innovative West-based community of forward-thinking individuals, on Monday. The club, which covers Bristol and Bath, was launched last October to bring together successful people from all walks of life to meet, share and develop...
Time is running out for Bristol firms to enter the prestigious South West Fairtrade Business Awards. Applications for the hotly contested awards, which are free to enter, close on January 31. Now in their fifth year, the awards champion organisations across the region that put ethical responsibilities at the...
Bristol business owners are to be shown how to promote their goods and services effectively through social media at two workshops being staged by BRAVE Enterprise, the city-based independent business support organisation. It is running the practical half-day courses – Using Social Media and Introduction to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) –...
Bristol-based energy supplier OVO has topped the UK’s biggest energy customer satisfaction survey for the second year running. The annual survey, conducted by Which?, asked nearly 9,000 customers to rate their supplier across a range of areas including customer service and value for money. The latest results come as...
Bristol firms should hope for the best but plan for the worst, according to the region’s largest business organisation following Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech this week outlining her plans for Brexit. Business West, which runs Bristol Chamber of Commerce and the Bristol Initiative, said while the landmark speech gave some...
HAB, the pioneering Bristol housing business set up by designer, writer and TV presenter Kevin McCloud, is seeking to raise £3m through crowd funding to acquire land for more innovative sustainable housing schemes. The funding is being sought by HAB Land, part of the award-winning HAB family of companies which...
Wellbeing in the workplace will be the focus of an action-oriented event staged by Bristol’s Happy City initiative at the city’s Watershed film and digital media centre. The session on January 26 – called Plotting a Happier Year Ahead – will allow people to explore their own key opportunities, challenges or questions...
