The UK’s first dedicated forklift truck engineer training centre has opened in Swindon. The national centre, on the town’s Kembrey Park business park, has been set up to train the next generation of UK forklift truck service engineers as well as giving mature engineers the chance to upgrade their knowledge and keep pace with the...
A Swindon retail scheme has changed hands for nearly £7.2m as the town’s commercial property market continues to attract investors. The 44,600 sq ft retail warehousing scheme – part of the County Road Retail Park, off Ocotal Way – has been bought by London-based UK property investment company Custodian REIT. Its two units are...
Swindon design agency Hot Pepper is to create a studio, art gallery and design shop in Old Town to showcase local and international artists. The firm is to relocate from its base at Wyvern Theatre to the vacant 1,500 sq ft unit in Victoria Road – the latest arrival in the area as it...
Property consultancy CBRE has promoted seven staff in its South West office as it continues to invest in its workforce. Staff numbers have grown by 10% over the past year at the office. Guy Mansfield, Peter Craske and Ian Banks have been promoted from associate director to director; Mark Kelly and Marcus Hutchings are...
Updating its health and safety procedures has earned Swindon joinery, shopfitting and construction firm Edmont a place on the shortlist for a prestigious national woodworking award. The firm, which was set up as a small local business in Swindon in 1972 and now employs more than 100 people, is competing in the Health and Safety Hero category...
Swindon-based regional construction group Beard has appointed David Sershall as managing director as it maintains its strong growth. David, pictured, joins the family-owned business from Hertfordshire-based engineering and construction company VolkerFitzpatrick, where he was managing director of the building division. He takes over the post from Mark Beard, who becomes executive chairman. Under Mr...
An £8m state-of-the-art dementia care home has opened in Swindon supported by a tailored finance package from Barclays. Abbey House, which is expected to create 200 jobs once fully operational, is the latest investment by Milestones Trust – a charity with a long history of providing care and support to vulnerable people with learning...
Two roundabouts at the entrance to a Swindon business park have burst into bloom as part of a groundbreaking national project to create floral meadows at busy road junctions. The Elgin Drive and Kembrey Park roundabouts are now a riot of meadow flowers and hardy perennials following two years of careful planning, preparation, planting and...
A warehouse has come onto the market, offering expanding businesses the rare chance to buy their own building on a sought-after business park. The 10,000 sq ft unit on the Bumpers Farm industrial estate in Chippenham, pictured, was most recently used as a fitness centre. It is being marketed jointly by the Swindon office of...
Danielle Kirk, director of property management in property agents Lambert Smith Hampton’s South West office, has been shortlisted for a prestigious national industry award. Danielle, pictured, aged 33, is one of just six to make it onto the final shortlist in Property Week’s Rising Star of the Year award, which recognizes talented young achievers in...
