Property consultancy Alder King has appointed Martin Baker as a senior surveyor in its Swindon agency team. Martin, pictured, will work on commercial and development agency instructions across Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and the Thames Valley. He joins from Summerdown & Partners, a property management company based in Marlborough where he handled the disposal and acquisition...
Husband and wife team Matt Lewis and Federica Marconi have opened a Spanish-style tapas bar in Chippenham with support from Barclays. Los Amigos, which boasts a Spanish themed menu, décor and ambience, is an expansion of the couple’s popular coffee shop in the town’s Market Place. By taking over a former shop unit next...
Fast-growing Swindon IT firm Sensata has relocated to larger offices as part of a strategic plan to continue its expansion. The firm, which this year celebrates 10 years in business, has moved from Basepoint in West Swindon – its home for the past nine years – to Coped Hall Business Park in Royal Wootton...
West Wiltshire chartered surveying firm Kavanaghs has appointed Alison Williams to its commercial team. Alison, who heads the firm’s commercial agency team in its Melksham and Trowbridge offices, joined from Alder King’s Swindon office, where she was an associate. In her new role she will be managing commercial lettings, disposals and acquisitions in the...
Regional construction group Beard, which has a major office in Swindon, has been awarded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (RoSPA) prestigious Gold award for occupational health and safety in recognition of its ‘excellent’ safety record. The accolade also celebrates Beard’s health-and-safety management systems and culture which includes effective leadership and workforce...
Commercial property solicitor Andrew Johnson has joined law firm Withy King’s 26-strong commercial property team, now one of the largest in the South West. Andrew, pictured, has expertise in high-value healthcare property developments. He joins from Bristol firm Bevan Brittan and will work across Withy King's offices, including Swindon. His extensive healthcare property experience...
Swindon-based property search specialist TM Group has landed a prestigious software industry award for a recently-introduced new product. TMSecure scooped the coveted title of Risk Management Software of the Year at the FStech Awards. TMSecure has been created to address business challenges in the property market as it becomes increasingly more complex for lenders...
Developers are being sought to convert the former St Mary’s School site in Purton into a small housing scheme. Property agent Colliers International has been appointed by the Bristol Diocesan Board of Finance and school trustees to sell the site, which closed in 2010 when the Victorian school was relocated and consolidated into a...
Integrated circuit design firm Swindon Silicon Systems has sold its head office to a London-based investment fund for £4.65m – the latest in a series of commercial property deals around the town and another indication of rapid recovery in the market. The deal transfers ownership of the 34,690 sq ft, two-storey Interface House office...
Hills Homes, the Swindon-based housebuilder, is celebrating after one of its latest developments and its site manager tasted success in building awards staged in Somerset. The firm, which builds high-quality housing schemes in Wiltshire and neighbouring counties, was highly commended for its Mendip Gardens scheme in Holcombe, in the category for new housing developments...
