The likely impact on Bristol of the Government’s controversial Localism Act is the theme of a major conference in the city tomorrow. Staged by the Constructing Excellence Bristol Club, the event entitled Local Heroes will outline the implications of the 2011 Act and look at how it will be...
West property consultancy Alder King has won two prestigious awards from property industry publication Estates Gazette, picking up the inaugural South West Property Adviser of the Year Award, and the South West Most Active Agent award for an unprecedented 12th year in succession. The firm, employing around 150 people...
The Institute of Directors has moved its South West regional headquarters to the Bristol & Bath Science Park. IoD director general Simon Walker visited the new offices where he met regional IoD representatives including South West chairman Richard Ayre, South West director Simon Face and regional staff, along with...
Work has started on the latest – and largest – ‘big shed’ food warehouse at Avonmouth as the transformation of the area from a major industrial site into a prime location for supermarket distribution centres gathers pace. The 616,000 sq ft building for Asda is on the 40-acre site...
Bristol’s Architecture Centre and UWE Bristol have signed a three-year partnership agreement to develop and enrich its existing programme of exhibitions, lectures and other events; encourage public debate about the future development of Bristol and its region; and develop further the public outreach activities of both organisations. Students of...
Property consultancy Alder King has announced the promotion of Nathan Clark, based in its Bristol office, to associate with effect from March 1. Nathan joined Alder King’s award-winning agency team in Bristol in 2010, advising clients on the acquisition and disposal of industrial property across Greater Bristol and nationwide....
Bristol-based construction consultancy Hydrock has set up a Building Performance Engineering division with the sole objective of making buildings work better and perform to maximum efficiency. Led by senior building services professionals, the division will operate as part of multi-disciplinary teams alongside structural engineers and architects, focussing on influencing...
The Bristol office of commercial property consultants Hartnell Taylor Cook has advised on the £1.2m purchase of a business park in Bridgwater. Hartnell Taylor Cook’s investment team partner Ian Lambert acted on behalf of Parabolas Capital which bought Blake Mill Business Park from the administrators of London and West...
The investment team in the Bristol office of property agents Knight Frank has acquired four industrial estates on behalf of Commercial Estates Group (CEG) from industrial specialist SEGRO in a £26m deal. The Galahad portfolio, which includes Pucklechurch Trading Estate near Bristol, as well as three sites in the...
Specialist restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm FRP Advisory has secured new office accommodation in Kings Orchard, a landmark office building overlooking Bristol’s Floating Harbour. In a deal negotiated by the Bristol offices of property consultants Alder King and GVA, FRP Advisory has relocated its South West and Wales regional...
The Government’s retail guru Mary Portas is in Bedminster this afternoon to see how the scheme she is spearheading is reviving the rundown shopping area around North Street and East Street. Bedminster was declared on of the UK’s 12 Portas Pilots last year, being it a unique opportunity to...
One of Bristol’s best-known fine dining restaurants, Bell’s Diner, has come onto the market with a freehold price of £400,000. The Montpelier restaurant was opened in 1976 by Shirley Anne Bells and John Payne – who later bought the Colston Street Brewery – and has been operated by current...
Bristol has one of the highest growth rate forecasts outside London and is in prime position to lead the region out of recession, according to research by property advisors Jones Lang LaSalle. Research revealed at the firm’s South West Market Review, entitled The Winning Edge, predicts a growth rate...
