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Organisers of Cornwall’s surf and music festival, Boardmasters, will donate £50,000 to Newquay’s Concrete Waves Skatepark between now and 2025.
A Chippenham resident who is registered blind has praised Redcliffe Homes for “going above and beyond” to support him and his wife Sara, who had life-limiting medical conditions, when they were buying their new home.
International law firm Osborne Clarke has advised the University of Bristol as work begins on its new Temple Quarter Campus at a total investment of around £500 million. Work will commence this month after the University signed contracts with construction company Sir Robert McAlpine.
Cornish hedgers are being asked to complete a short online survey which will help determine whether the ancient skill should be classified as an endangered craft.
The “bold re-imagining” of the former chocolate factory in Bristol’s Greenbank has resulted in the scheme scooping the highly-coveted Transformation Award in the 2022 Bristol Property Awards.
Developers need to be alive to the risks of issues arising from third-party land ownership, warns Taunton legal property specialist Caroline Mortimer.
Dorset Council’s plans to increase the number of public charge points for electric vehicles (EVs) in Dorset are now underway, with the first new charging unit installed in Sherborne this month.
Design and construction specialist Dan Grimshaw believes he’s discovered the antidote to workplace stress: running up mountains.
Hambrook-based charity Empowering Futures has secured the funding to improve disabled access around their local care farm, with the installation of new wheelchair-accessible gates and paths now able to become a reality.
Lawyers at national law firm Clarke Willmott LLP have advised on a multi-million pound finance package that will deliver over 1,000 new family homes across Dorset, Hampshire and Somerset.
A planning Inspector has ruled that 125 houses can be built on farm fields in Backwell with the demolition of two houses on the A370 to provide access.
Bristol’s Deputy Mayor, Councillor Craig Cheney, has this week visited the new Chocolate Factory development in Bristol to understand how the scheme has transformed an iconic part of the city’s history and improved availability and affordability of homes in the area.
An increasing number of city centre dwellers are choosing The Chocolate Factory in BS5 as the place to buy a property and become part of a growing close-knit community.
Final preparations for the second BS5 Art Trail are underway as artists and makers from across the city put the finishing touches to their work.
With the construction industry becoming cautious of fixed price contracts in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, construction and design specialist contractor Dan Grimshaw says there are advantages to using cost-plus contracts instead.
Around 150 people packed into the Backwell Parish Hall in North Somerset to question plans by North Somerset Council to build 1,120 new homes in the village by 2038.
A planning inquiry heard from people who live in Backwell that they see Farleigh Fields – a piece of agricultural land leading up to the village church -= as vital to the well-being of residents.
A Town Planning expert has told a Public Inquiry in Weston-super-Mare how people living in Backwell have “been heavily involved in 40 years of resisting unpopular proposals on Farleigh Fields”.
An expert witness called by North Somerset Council told a Public Inquiry at Weston Town Hall that building a housing estate on Farleigh Fields, Backwell will “irrevocably harm the character and appearance of this place”.
