Fast-growing Swindon construction firm Beard is among the finalists of the prestigious West of England Business of the Year Awards which have been announced today. The PwC-sponsored awards are the most-prestigious in the region, recognising for the past 25 years to cream of the West’s dynamic companies. As well as the main award, there...

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Swindon property agency Kilpatrick & Co has been appointed as sole letting agent on Hughenden Yard in Marlborough, a retail development of 17 units off the High Street with direct access from a 34-space public car park. Three of the shops are being marketed, offering space from 400 sq ft to 1,100 sq ft....

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Swindon’s University Technical College (UTC) has taken a significant step towards becoming a reality following the appointment of the contractor with responsibility for its ground-breaking building. BAM Construction, which has worked on a number of existing UTC developments, produced a set of impressive initial site designs for UTC Swindon during the tendering process. The...

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The 34.4 acre site of the former Erskine Barracks in Wilton, near Salisbury, has been sold to Redrow Homes, which plans to re-develop the land as part of a community partnership with OurEnterprise and the Wilton Community Land Trust. The site, which has already been granted outline planning permission, has the potential for the...

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The NHS is to take office space in Bewley House, Chippenham, in a deal that means the former headquarters of North Wiltshire District Council is fully occupied again. Wiltshire NHS Primary Care Trust has signed a 10-year lease with Bewley House owners, based-based HPH Commercial Property, for the entire first floor of the building....

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Work is to start in May of the £50m retail and leisure scheme development to transform the former Swindon College site at Regent Circus. The scheme will include a 52,000 sq ft Morrisons superstore, eight restaurants and bars, a six-screen digital Cineworld multiplex cinema and a 450-space car park. National restaurant chains Ask, Nando’s...

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Property consultancy Alder King, which has an office in Swindon, 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...

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Swindon Borough Council has acquired a retail investment property in Regent Street for £1.57m. The detached building, pictured, has four retail units on the ground floor with office accommodation above and a 26-space car park to the rear. It was bought from Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Income from the property, which has William Hill,...

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