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The Bournemouth Development Company has submitted extensive plans for building 100 new houses on the site of the Berry Court car park, a news report in the local media has recently revealed. The proposals put forward also include up to 155 spaces for public car parking within a small multi-storey. This means that existing car parking spaces will not be lost.

One of the UK’s largest telecom companies has just announced plans to recruit up to 200 new engineers in the South West, as a part of a major initiative to improve customer service and extend network coverage. BT hopes that the new staff intake would help it bring high-speed fibre broadband to more parts of the country. The move forms parts of a wider push by BT to recruit 1,600 engineers across the UK, a news report on the matter could reveal.

The Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking South West Business Activity Index revealed that the private sector across the South West continued to expand in April, despite the rate of growth slowing down to a 10-month low.

A total of 50 jobs were saved as a Salisbury supplier of home care nursing staff was bought out of administration by a company sharing the same directors, a news report in the local business media has revealed. The Prime Care Agency Ltd in Durrington, near Salisbury, entered into administration at the beginning of May 2014 and was sold to Primecare (Salisbury) Ltd, with the positions of all 50 employees protected.

Dyson, one of the best-known British engineering brands, has revealed some very ambitious growth plans, which also include creating 3,000 new jobs, a news report on the matter has revealed.

A local council has revealed that more than 100 affordable homes have been completed in the area over the past 12 months, including here supported housing units, low-cost home-ownership properties and general-needs family accommodation buildings.

Imperial Tobacco, one of UK’s largest tobacco companies, has announced plans to make up to 900 employees redundant as part of a major restructuring process brought about by poor business results.

A City Council has revealed plans to implement a series of measures designed to help it start building new social homes in the area for the first time in the past 25 years. Gloucester City Council plans to transfer its 4,800 homes to housing association Gloucester City Homes (currently in charge of their management), in return for the government wiping out £50m of historic housing debt, a news report in the local media revealed.

A new business development master plan could see up to 25,500 new jobs being created across the South West of England, the organization supporting this ambitious enterprise has claimed. The West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (WE LEP) developed its ‘strategic economic plan’ in collaboration with its network of 800 businesses, four unitary authorities, five further education colleges and four universities, a news source can reveal.

A property investment company has revealed a very interesting vision for Plymouth’s West End and eastern area of the city, a news report in the local media has recently revealed. British Land wants to transform the Bretonside bus station with a major leisure development that, if approved, would feature a 12-screen cinema, 13 restaurants, 400 car parking spaces and extensive improvements to public areas, improving links from the city centre to the Barbican and the waterfront.

Taunton Deane Borough Council has decided to join forces with Knightstone Housing Association for the development of 87 homes and community facilities in Somerset, a news report in the local business media has recently revealed. Under the existing development plans, he local authority would retain part of the site in order to construct 57 new homes. It would transfer the remainder of the site to Knightstone to deliver a further 30 properties.

ALD Automotive, a fleet management firm based in Bristol, has managed to literally double its business over the past five years, a news report in the local business media has recently revealed.