Central Chippenham Partnership (CCP), the joint venture between two major property investment funds (Aberdeen Property UK Retail Parks Trust and Ashtenne Industrial Fund), has revealed dates for a community consultation exhibition to invite feedback from the community on its emerging plans for substantial investment and regeneration of a 54 acre site, adjacent to Chippenham...
The Swindon-based Media & External Affairs team of the National Trust has been named In-House Team of the Year at the 2012 PRWeek Awards, announced in London this week. Beating stiff competition from the Alzheimer’s Society, easyJet, McDonald’s UK and VisitScotland, the 16-strong team came away with the prestigious PR Week Gold Award....
The Regional Growth Fund (RGF) is a £2.4bn Government fund to which businesses across England can apply for grants and loans. The RGF, which was launched in 2011 and will run until 2015, supports projects offering significant potential for sustainable economic growth and which will create new jobs – and safeguard existing ones –...
The achievements of Paul Rumley, a clinical negligence partner at Withy King in Swindon, have been recognised by the judges of the most prestigious awards in the legal calendar. Paul Rumley was a finalist in the ‘Solicitor of the Year – Private Practice’ category at the Law Society's Excellence Awards which took place in...
A new science park will be developed in Wiltshire thanks to a £10m investment from the government. The Porton Science Park will be based near leading scientific institutions and will create more than 2,000 jobs over a ten year period. The Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (SWLEP) fully supported the £10m bid to...
The first borough-wide 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) broadband network in the UK went live today in Swindon. The broadband service is to be followed later this month by a microwave network, which has been created in partnership with Swindon Borough Council’s IT service provider Capita. The system provides the capability for ultrafast...
Only 5% of local business websites in Swindon are mobile friendly according to a survey by web design firm Rubber Dragon. The survey covered 222 Swindon-based business websites (mainly from IT and marketing sectors) as listed at OpenSwindon.co.uk, all the websites were working, but unfortunately very few of them were found to adjust to...
Royal Wootton Bassett-based Quick Move Properties (QMP), one of the UK’s largest independent residential property part exchange and house sale service companies, has secured an £11m funding package from Santander Corporate Banking. QMP was founded in 1998 and grew quickly to become a key player in the part exchange property market. The firm which,...
Property consultants Alder King have promoted Alison Williams to an associate at its office in Swindon. Her new role will see her continue to provide property acquisition and disposal advice to corporate, regional and local clients on industrial properties in Swindon and across Wiltshire. Alison has also developed a sound knowledge of the regional...
Swindon hotels reported a challenging August, according to figures released by the Hotels and Consultancy division of PKF Accountants & business advisers. Occupancy fell 4.6% to reach 68.1%, from 71.4% in August 2011 and room rate also declined to £45.99, a 6.7% drop on last year's figure of £49.30. This led to rooms yield...
