Stone King, the regional law firm with an office in Melksham, has appointed experienced lawyers Amanda Watts and Jo Boyle to its growing residential property team. Amanda, pictured, right, with Stone King’s managing partner Steven Greenwood, joins the firm, which also has offices in Bath, Cambridge and London, from Hertfordshire legal practice Nockolds where...
Women in Property, the networking and professional development organisation, is to stage events in Chippenham as well as other areas across the South West as part of a new focus following the election of a new regional chairman. Naomi Chesterman, an associate in the property litigation team at Bristol law firm Veale Wasbrough Vizards...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
Global relocation and moving services firm SIRVA has relocated its UK and European head office on Swindon’s Kembrey Park as it continues to expand. The firm, which has been based at the business park for the last five years, has taken 10,753 sq ft office space in the showpiece Mulberry building, moving from its...
Swindon conveyancing firm Hoffman Male has refreshed its image with updated branding and a new website 18 months after moving into new premises to give the business room to expand. The property law firm is also looking for a conveyancing executive – someone experienced in this area of the law, or who may be...
Firms could move out of Chippenham – taking with them much-needed jobs – if the future of the town’s major redevelopment area remains uncertain, local businesses are warning. The Central Chippenham Partnership (CCP), the consortium seeking to redevelop the high-profile 54-acre site, which includes the industrial area of Langley Park and the Hathaway Retail...
Alison Williams, a recently-promoted associate in Alder King’s Swindon office, has been recognised as Wiltshire’s top commercial property dealmaker. Alison, pictured below, won the title from the property industry magazine Estates Gazette for completing the highest number of deals across the county over the past year. She said: “It’s particularly pleasing that, in spite...
