The first businesses have moved into the Engine Shed, Bristol’s new innovation hub which is taking shape in part of Brunel’s original Temple Meads railway station. To co-incide with the arrival of the 16 firms – all members of Bristol University’s SETsquared business incubator – minister for culture, communications...
Two surveyors at independent property adviser GVA’s Bristol office have passed their APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) exams following two years of study and professional training. The APC, when added to full-time study and learning received at university, leads to RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) membership. It is the...
Planning lawyers at Bond Dickinson, the national law firm with a major office in Bristol, have helped global renewable energy firm RES win development consent for a biomass power station in Northumberland. The scheme is the first of its kind to be granted a development consent order by Energy...
National property consultancy Bruton Knowles has opened an office in Bristol and recruited two of the city’s best-known and experienced commercial property specialists to build its team. Paul Matthews, who has 32 years’ experience of the Bristol market, joins from the city office of BNP Paribas. He was formerly...
Barclays is to re-locate its two Bristol offices into prestigious new space in the city centre. The office in Bridgewater House, Finzels Reach, will bring together Barclays’ Corporate Banking and Wealth and Investment Management divisions. Barclays is to lease more than 18,000 sq ft of state-of-the-art space at Bridgewater...
French students learning about international real estate at UWE have been given a hands-on insight into the different techniques used to measure office space in the UK compared to France. The students, from the Ecole Supérieure des Professions Immobilières (ESPI – School of Real Estate Professions) in Paris, are...
Mezze, the fast-growing Bristol bar and restaurant chain, has officially opened its sixth venue –The White Lion in Portishead – with a little help from Bristol-born Olympic gymnast Imogen Cairns. Imogen, who represented Great Britain at the Beijing and London Olympics and has won three Commonwealth Games gold medals,...
Islamic finance specialists at West law firm Foot Anstey have worked on the £40m-plus acquisition of a student housing scheme by Gulf investors operating through a shari’ah-compliant real estate firm chaired by former Dragons’ Den star James Caan. London-based independent property advisory firm 90 North Real Estate Partners serves...
Veteran Bristol commercial property figure Grant Watson is to receive an honorary degree from UWE Bristol in recognition of his inspirational leadership, entrepreneurship and passion for the region. The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science will be conferred on Mr Watson, pictured, at the awards ceremony of the Faculty...
Ambitious plans aimed at safeguarding Bristol equestrian charity and visitor attraction HorseWorld have been drawn up. The scheme would allow HorseWorld, the UK’s leading horse charity, to sell off part of its site, including its out-dated visitor centre, for housing – bringing in much-needed funds to secure its future...
Ambitious plans to redevelop Bristol Temple Meads station as a gateway to the city and its enterprise zone will be unveiled today at a major conference. Called Delivering the Vision, the event will show the 300-strong audience what has been happening in the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone since it...
Hotcha, the fast-growing Bristol-based Chinese takeaway chain, is heading along the M4 to open its first Swindon outlet next month, taking its number of branches to nine. The business, led by young entrepreneur James Liang, pictured, is investing more than £100,000 in the Swindon premises, in the town’s main...
Construction work is about to start on Bristol’s first new-build Passivhaus development – homes and shops needing little or no heating as they are so well insulated. The pioneering project, on the site of a long-abandoned Gala Bingo building in North Street, Bedminster, is the latest in a growing list of...
