National nurse recruitment and training agency Nurse Plus has relocated its expanding Swindon branch to Kembrey Park in a deal brokered by the Swindon office of property agents Keningtons. The office acted on behalf of Highcross Strategic Advisers to let the 1,130 sq ft Unit 5 at Pine Court to Nurse Plus. The Swindon...
Swindon’s commercial property market bounced back strongly last year, leading to a shortage of large industrial buildings for expanding or relocating businesses, according to agents Alder King’s latest Market Monitor. The report highlights resurgence in all sectors of the market in Swindon in 2013 – offices, industrial, retail and investment – as businesses in...
Accountants PwC have launched their annual search for the region’s best companies with the 2014 West of England Business of the Year Awards – the region’s most prestigious business accolades. Previous winners of the awards, now in their 26th year, read like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies, including Dyson, MITIE and,...
Swindon law firm Withy King provides a round-up of a few of the latest legal developments which may affect directors, in business as well as their private lives. Tax implications for home owners After MPs got caught ‘flipping’ their homes for a CGT (Capital Gains Tax) advantage, it must have grated. Chancellor George Osborne...
Swindon Borough Council has appointed construction company Stepnell to undertake a £500,000 programme to extend and refurbish a specialist unit for students with physical disabilities at The Commonweal School in Old Town. Work starts this month at the Physical Impairment Unit to create an additional storey housing two new classrooms on top of an...
Construction work has started on the UK’s largest solar power farm, thanks to the latest collaboration between law firm Thrings, which has its largest office in Swindon, and Royal Wootton Bassett-based land agency WebbPaton. Agricultural land specialists at Thrings and WebbPaton acted on behalf of the landowner of the 230-acre site near Didcot, including...
National property agents Knight Frank’s industrial team in the South West has been boosted with the arrival of Josh Gunn as a graduate surveyor. Josh, pictured, joins the Bristol office from Plymouth property consultant Vickery Holman where he spent two years in the agency department after graduating from Oxford Brookes University in Real Estate...
Some of the most influential business people in the Swindon area have been recognised in today’s New Year’s Honours list. Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, pictured, who chose Swindon for his first pioneering sustainable low-cost housing development, has been honoured for services to sustainable living and energy saving with the MBE. Mr McCloud’s passion...
GreenSquare, the Swindon-based social housing group, has been placed among the top five housing associations in the UK. It is the only South West-based housing association to be included in the list, compiled by leading industry magazine 24housing and the Housing Quality Network (HQN). GreenSquare came in at number five in the rankings, based...
The first stage of Swindon town centre’s £350m Kimmerfields regeneration scheme has opened – a £15m, 850-space multi-storey car park. A quarter of the Whalebridge car park, which will be run by Swindon Borough Council, has already been let to town centre businesses for staff parking. It will replace a number of existing out-dated...
