Commercial property consultants Alder King has launched its first Market Monitor Update, a mid-year review of the commercial property market across the South West of England and South Wales. The report reveals some encouraging signs in the office and retail sectors, but a rather bleaker picture for industrial property. At the midway point of...
A development of three stone cottages in Southrop by housing developer Hills Homes has won the ‘Best social or affordable housing’ category in the West of England Local Authority Building Control (LABC) awards. The trophy was presented to Hills Homes site manager, Allan Ramsay, at an awards ceremony at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel....
Plans for the biggest redevelopment project for generations in Chippenham – including the town’s massive former Westinghouse site – are being drawn up following an agreement between two development companies. Property management and development companies Aberdeen Property UK Retail Parks Trust and Ashtenne Industrial Fund have formed the partnership to redevelop a 54-acre site...
Recruitment firm CMD has relocated its Calne office to the Four Brooks Business Centre in a deal arranged by property agents Keningtons. The firm, which also has offices in Chippenham and Devizes, has room to grow at the new base on the first floor of Unit 5 at the centre, on the town’s Portemarsh...
IT systems and services firm Trust Systems has opened its new head office at Purlieus Barn, Cirencester. The company had outgrown its previous premises at Barton Hall, Cirencester, due to expansion. To fill the new head office the company plans to advertise and recruit more staff locally. Trust Systems works with a number of...
First City Nursing Services, the Swindon-based care and nursing staff agency, has bought Rowan House, a two-storey office building in Stratton St. Margaret, from Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership. The business, which supplies nurses and care assistants for private individuals’ home care and to nursing and care homes, is to use the 2,353...
Developers of large warehouses – so-called big sheds – are starting to buy sites in the West, positioning themselves for an upturn in demand, according to commercial property advisors GVA. However, the firm’s annual Industrial Intelligence report warns that the region is facing a shortage of good quality accommodation because of the lack of speculative development. GVA’s industrial...
Cinema chain Cineworld was today named as the operator of the six-screen multiplex which will be part of Swindon’s long-awaited £50m Regent Circus leisure scheme The new state-of-the-art, all-digital cinema will form a key part of the development by Ashfield Land which will transform a neglected area of the town centre dominated by the...
Unit 22 of Ergo Business Park has been let to Wyrestorm Technologies, a global electronics company. The unit is a two storey office property extending to 2,170 square feet and has been let by way of a new 5 year lease. Wyrestorm Technologies short listed the property as they were able to agree a...
Acting on behalf of the landlords GB Contracts, Alder King in conjunction with Whitmarsh Lockhart, has let Drake House on Lakeside Business Park, South Cerney to Thornley Kelham (formerly The Vintage & Classic Paintshop Ltd) on a new five year lease. The Vintage & Classic Paintshop started as a small team of experienced enthusiasts working...
