An innovative battery that charges with electricity generated from solar panels is to make its first UK appearance thanks to Wiltshire agricultural equipment and construction material supplier TH White. The Tesla Powerwall is set to revolutionise how buildings use energy as it will allow homes to store solar energy generated during the day to...
Swindon construction firm Beard has started refurbishment work to transform Chippenham’s Grade II-listed Neeld Hall into a community and arts centre. Beard is working with Chippenham Town Council and Bristol-based Quattro Design Architects on the design-and-build project on the hall, which was built in 1850 as an extension to the Town Hall. The hall...
Chippenham residents and visitors to the town are being urged to support its privately owned shops as part of national Independent Retailer Month. Nearly half the retail units in the town are independently owned – reflecting a growing trend across the South West in particular for smaller, locally owned stores to set up and...
Wroughton Airfield Solar Park, which will be one of the UK’s largest solar farms when it starts generating next year, has been sold by a company owned by Swindon Council and the Science Museum in a multi-million pound deal. The 165-acre project on the former Second World War RAF airfield near Swindon has been...
Swindon’s showpiece £10m UTC (University Technical College) has won the Best Educational Building category in the 2015 West of England Regional LABC (Local Authority Building Control) Building Excellence Awards. As a result, it is now shortlisted for the LABC grand finals which take place in November at London’s Lancaster Hotel. UTC Swindon had also...
Changes to the rental sector announced in last week’s Budget should make landlords extra vigilant when finding tenants, Swindon-based Tenant Screening is warning. Chancellor George Osborne cut the mortgage relief landlords can claim and at the same time raised the amount of tax-free income on renting a room. But Tenant Screening, which provides a...
The last remaining unit on a business park near Swindon has been let – proof, according to property consultants Alder King, of the strength of activity in the area’s office market. International construction, engineering and IT recruitment consultancy Magnus James has relocated from Cirencester to the Lakeside Business Park in South Cerney, taking the...
The Bristol office of property agents DTZ has recruited Chris Hays to head a new town planning team that will provide consultancy services across the South West. Chris, pictured, joins from global consultancy WYG, where he worked in planning/project management teams based in Swindon and Bristol. His new role will involve developing DTZ’s town...
Bott, the workplace storage equipment firm, and Devon Air Ambulance Trust have won the PWC Business of the Year Awards – the South West’s most coveted business accolades. Bude-based Bott’s CEO Clive Woodward received his trophy for the £30m-plus turnover category from Mark Beard, chief executive of last year's winner, Swindon construction firm Beard....
Swindon urgently needs speculative commercial property development to meet spiralling demand from office and industrial occupiers, according to agents Alder King’s latest Market Monitor Update report. The supply of offices, factories and warehouses in the town is now down to its lowest for more than 10 years, the report says – the combination of...
