Independent business group Bristol Breakfast Networking (BBN) is to launch a fortnightly meeting for the northern part of the city to meet demand from its expanding membership. BBN was set up 18 years ago for the benefit of small business owners in Bristol area. But over recent months it...
Bristol is set to be the venue for one of the country’s first gyms dedicated to Parkour – the training discipline often associated with urban freerunning – after being selected by an operator based in the city. The sport is already hugely popular around the world and more than...
National law firm Clarke Willmott, which has an office in Bristol, has been ranked at number six in a prestigious list of the highest-rated planning practices for 2018. The Planning Law Survey is an in-depth report based on testimonials by the consultants, developers and officers that use law firms’ services....
Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has advised long-standing client Gravis Capital Management on its £20m financing of a major energy storage project. The transaction builds on the firm’s market-leading experience in the innovative debt structures needed to fund energy storage projects and their complex revenue streams. The latest...
GVA, the national property consultancy, has further strengthened its Bristol office with two director-level appointments. Laura Stamboulieh joins as senior director in its public sector advisory service team while Mike Ware arrives as director and regional head of property management. Laura, pictured, will be responsible for developing GVA’s public...
The Bristol Hoteliers Association has appointed Imran Ali, general manager of the city’s Radisson Blu Hotel, as its new chairman. Imran, pictured, has taken over from Mark Payne, general manager of The Bristol Hotel, who held the position for the past year. Mark helped reform the association, which previously...
Global engineering technology firm Renishaw has strengthened its support for Bristol’s iconic music venue Colston Hall by agreeing to sponsor a room in its new education suite. The room, which has not yet been named, will be created in the venue’s unused Victorian cellars as part of the £48.8m...
The head of property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield’s Bristol office has raised more than £4,000 for the young people’s development charity Youth Adventure Trust after completing a seven-day trek across Ethiopia. Tim Davis walked for between eight and 13 hours a day to reach the summit of Ras Dashen,...
National commercial property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield has made two appointments to its Bristol office. Tim West joins the office’s valuation team as a surveyor while Rory Sergeant joins its project & development services team as a senior building surveyor. Originally from Poole, Tim arrives from Savills’ South Coast...
A major redevelopment of part of Bristol’s Old City including extensive regeneration of some of its most historic buildings has been unveiled. The plans include buildings fronting Broad Street, including Natwest Court and the ornamental Everards Printing Works building with its unique Art Nouveau façade. These buildings will be...
Architects from the Bristol office of international firm BDP are behind the design of a major new-generation £79.5m surgical centre, which has just been given the go-ahead by the government. BDP’s Bristol studio was appointed by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to design a new surgical and critical...
Bristol-headquartered law firm TLT has completed its third land acquisition in four months for housebuilding group Persimmon Homes. The latest site – in Tuffley, Gloucester – has planning permission for 250 residential units. Persimmon says the development will go some way to addressing the increasing demand for new homes...
Bristol-based neighbourhood café-bar operator Loungers has used the opening of its 100th outlet to unveil ambitious plans to invest £10m in further 16 Lounges this year 2018. The firm, which also owns the Cosy Club bar-restaurant brand, promised no let-up in pursuing its expansion strategy across the UK. Its...
