Entries are now open for the 15th annual Michelmores Property Awards, which showcase and celebrate the very best of the South West's property and construction industry.
Michelmores is calling upon property developers, building contractors, architects and other industry professionals to nominate buildings, projects and businesses from across Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Bristol and Dorset across ten categories.
For the 2017 awards, there are five new categories, including Commercial Project of the Year, Public Project of the Year, Education Project of the Year, and Leisure...
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (16-18 December 2016)
THEATRE
Peter Pan Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Exeter Northcott Theatre Escape to Neverland this Christmas with Exeter Northcott Theatre and the boy who never grew up… Join Wendy, John and Michael as they soar into the night sky with Peter, to a magical land of mermaids and fairy dust, where children can fly and all sorts of exciting adventures happen every day. But beware – danger is just around the corner. Captain Hook and the pirates are looking for revenge and Peter Pan is top...
The Crown Estate and TH Real Estate’s plans for an extension to Princesshay Shopping Centre have been submitted to Exeter City Council for approval. Outline consent for the scheme was formally granted in July 2016. This saw the basic concept for the scheme approved, including things like its size and scale, and the types of uses that it will include. The Reserved Matters Planning Application looks at detailed design elements of the scheme, covering things like materials and architecture. The plans have been submitted by The Crown Estate and TH Real Estate following extensive consultation...
A charity run community café in Exeter will open its doors to the elderly and lonely on Christmas Day.
Café 55, run by national disability charity Sense, will offer a free Christmas lunch, with all the trimmings, for up to 30 people who would otherwise be spending the day alone. Guests will also be treated to some festive entertainment including carols sung by The Rediscover Church choir, and presents and food donated by the Pinhoe and Guildhall Sainsbury’s stores. Café 55’s Manager, Jane Tucker, was inspired to host the event after speaking to a member of the charity’s social...
Temporary traffic lights will be in use at Bridge Road in Exeter over four nights, starting from this evening (Thursday 15 December).
The road will be reduced to one lane when the temporary lights are installed overnight between 11pm and 5am tonight, tomorrow night (Friday 16 December), Monday 19 December and Tuesday 20 December.
The temporary lights will provide the contractor with the working space to install new streetlights on the downstream side of Countess Wear Bridge.
The aim is to get the new streetlighting operational before the Christmas break, but this is...
RGB Building Supplies has been named on Real Business magazine’s Hot 100 list which reveals the fastest growing private businesses in the UK.
Based on turnover and profit growth over a four-year period, to make the list a company had to achieve sales of more than £10m and post an EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) of more than £1m. With a turnover of £54.3m and EBITDA of £2.1m, RGB is the only Devon based company to make it on the Hot 100 list.
The builders merchant completed a family and management buyout deal at the end of 2015 to secure...
Plans for a near £1 million flood improvement scheme in East Devon have been approved by Devon County Council’s Cabinet.
Councillors today (Wednesday 14 December) agreed to increase the budget for the scheme which will improve flood protection for properties at Axminster Millbrook.
Over 40 properties were flooded in Axminster during severe storms in 2012, with The Cricketers and Willhay Lane the main areas affected.
An ongoing flood risk remains for over 160 properties, but this would be significantly reduced by the County Council scheme, which would improve the...
Job Seeker’s Allowance (JSA) claimants in Devon increased by 13 during November.
This is the first rise in claimants since February - the total claimant count now standing at 2,860, 23% lower than the same time last year.
Three of Devon’s eight districts experienced small increases in JSA – North Devon the highest at 26 claimants, closely followed by Exeter at 22, and South Hams at four.
Small falls were experienced in all the other Devon districts – Mid Devon having the largest month on month drop in claimants at 24, with West Down down by seven, Teignbridge down...
Chime Health, leading audiology service and NHS partner in Devon, is encouraging people to make their hearing health a priority this Christmas as the festive season often highlights and intensifies issues surrounding hearing loss. With approximately 1 in 6 people in the UK affected by hearing loss and on average it taking 10 years for many people to address their problems. Most people can relate to the topic of hearing health and Chime are urging those who think they might be experiencing problems to make an appointment, or to encourage those they care about.
DeNada Dance Theatre present a gender-bending evening of seductive and provocative dance choreographed by Carlos Pons Guerra.
From a dingy cabaret in Civil War Barcelona, where a drag artiste murders her fascist lover backstage, passing through a lustful duel of seduction between two machos, and ending with a divine apparition in a kitchen of 1950’s Seville, Ham and Passion is an exhilarating and filmic spectacle that promises to subvert the senses - a true feast of meaty dance soaked in a salsa of passion.
“Perverse, sexy and flamboyant.” The Observer “Extraordinarily...
