http://www.cnplus.co.uk/rss/south_west_rss.xml All the latest stories on South West. en-uk A planning application for a speedway track has been submitted to North Cornwall District Council. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/planning_application_made_for_speedway_track.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/planning_application_made_for_speedway_track.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 07 October 2008 08:52 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg Optimal Design and Build has won an award for restoring eight derelict homes in Glastonbury through as empty property initiative by Mendip District Council. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/optimal_design_and_build_secures_contract_for_derelict_homes_revamp.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/optimal_design_and_build_secures_contract_for_derelict_homes_revamp.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Simon Ellery 02 October 2008 11:58 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg Devon County Council is preparing a shortlist of bidders for its £129 million link road project in South Devon. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/major_devon_and_norfolk_roads_contracts_reach_shortlists.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/major_devon_and_norfolk_roads_contracts_reach_shortlists.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 02 October 2008 08:42 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/roadcropped_resized_70_tcm18-266995.jpg The Health and Safety Executive has said it hopes lessons can be learnt from the blaze which damaged Sir Robert McAlpine’s £360 million SouthGate development in Bath last week. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/hse_hopes_lessons_can_be_learnt_from_southgate_blaze.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/10/hse_hopes_lessons_can_be_learnt_from_southgate_blaze.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 01 October 2008 11:25 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/yayb_fire_resized_70_tcm18-342578.jpg An investigation has been launched after a baby was injured when a glass pane that fell from a door at a Harvey Nicholls store at the newly opened Cabot Circus shopping centre in Bristol. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/baby_injured_at_newly_opened_cabot_circus.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/baby_injured_at_newly_opened_cabot_circus.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Lucy Craymer 29 September 2008 18:14 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/cabot%20circus_cropped_resized_70_tcm18-1873479.jpg The Government has given the go-ahead for the compulsory purchase of 138 hectares to build the Weymouth Relief Road. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cpos_approved_for_weymouth_relief_road.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cpos_approved_for_weymouth_relief_road.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 26 September 2008 14:35 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg A large fire broke out at a £350 million retail development being built by Sir Robert McAlpine in Bath last night. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/fire_damages_rob_mcalpines_350_million_bath_project.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/fire_damages_rob_mcalpines_350_million_bath_project.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 24 September 2008 09:47 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/yayb_fire_resized_70_tcm18-342578.jpg A £100 million upgrade of Bath's Royal United Hospital has been announced. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/bath_hospital_to_receive_100m_upgrade.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/bath_hospital_to_receive_100m_upgrade.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 25 September 2008 11:58 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg The £500 million Cabot Circus retail and mixed-use development has today opened in Bristol city centre. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cabot_circus_unveiled.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cabot_circus_unveiled.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 25 September 2008 11:41 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/cabot%20circus_cropped_resized_70_tcm18-1873479.jpg The South West Regional Development Agency has agreed to fund a seafront regeneration project in Weymouth – site of the 2012 Olympic sailing competition. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/south_west_rda_to_fund_seafront_regen.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/south_west_rda_to_fund_seafront_regen.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 23 September 2008 09:04 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg The 2012 Olympic sailing facilities in Dorset are "racing towards the finishing line" with work more than halfway completed, the Olympic Delivery Authority has announced. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/olympic_sailing_facilities_should_be_first_2012_venue_finished.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/olympic_sailing_facilities_should_be_first_2012_venue_finished.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 18 September 2008 10:46 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/logo_resized_70_tcm18-297307.JPG Developer PH Gillingham has submitted plans for a £3.5 million proposal to revamp a derelict part of Cirencester in Gloucestershire. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cirencester_35m_revamp_plans_to_be_decided.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cirencester_35m_revamp_plans_to_be_decided.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 16 September 2008 11:06 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg Ministers opened the doors to 22 more new schools under the Building Schools for the Future programme today. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/bsf_programme_rolls_out_22_more_schools.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/bsf_programme_rolls_out_22_more_schools.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Nick Whitten 10 September 2008 11:55 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/63488_9940_resized_70_tcm18-293102.jpg Gloucestershire-based construction firm J Guest has been fined £4,000 after a labourer fell 3m from an unprotected edge on one of its sites, breaking his wrist, ankle and pelvis. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/firm_fined_after_worker_breaks_pelvis.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/firm_fined_after_worker_breaks_pelvis.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 09 September 2008 10:04 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/709062_10655881_resized_70_tcm18-85407.jpg A proposed £10.7 million contract to repair and refurbish all the lifts in Brighton and Hove City Council’s social housing blocks will be decided on by cabinet on Wednesday. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/decision_to_be_made_on_107m_lift_contract.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/decision_to_be_made_on_107m_lift_contract.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 08 September 2008 10:22 A surveyor has been killed in a landslide at a building site in Gloucestershire. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/worker_killed_in_mudslide.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/worker_killed_in_mudslide.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 08 September 2008 09:30 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/hse_resized_70_tcm18-1570827.jpg A Birmingham man is to appear in court charged with the manslaughter of a construction worker who died after he was punched in the street. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/man_in_court_over_manslaughter_of_construction_worker.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/man_in_court_over_manslaughter_of_construction_worker.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 05 September 2008 09:13 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/hse_resized_70_tcm18-1570827.jpg Cornwall-based Aram Resources will have to pay out more than £100,000 in fines and costs after a worker was killed at the Carnsew Quarry in 2004. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/aram_resources_fined_100k_over_quarry_death.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/aram_resources_fined_100k_over_quarry_death.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 04 September 2008 14:35 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/hse_resized_70_tcm18-1570827.jpg A businessman has shown the property market crash has not reached all corners after spending more than £7.5 million to demolish a seaside mansion and build a new one with just one extra bedroom. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/russian_tycoon_to_raze_new_5m_mansion.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/russian_tycoon_to_raze_new_5m_mansion.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Rhiannon Hoyle 03 September 2008 16:49 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/money_for_deal_resized_70_tcm18-261818.jpg Bristol contractor Midas is planning to expand beyond its South-west stronghold into the Midlands and the south. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/midas_breaks_out_of_the_west.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/midas_breaks_out_of_the_west.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A 03 September 2008 17:09 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/Alan_Hope_resized_70_tcm18-1828635.JPG Contractors have been invited to tender for a minor works framework in Cornwall worth up to £8 million. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cornwall_college_campus_framework_advertised.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/cornwall_college_campus_framework_advertised.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Lisa Glancy 03 September 2008 11:12 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg Cheltenham Borough Council is in talks with developers over a £70 million revamp of Hester’s Way. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/hesters_way_in_70m_revamp.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/hesters_way_in_70m_revamp.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 02 September 2008 15:01 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg National regeneration agency English Partnerships is looking for a development partner for the former mining yard at Combe Down, near Bath. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/english_partnerships_to_develop_old_mine_site.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/english_partnerships_to_develop_old_mine_site.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Lucy Craymer 01 September 2008 17:02 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg Carrick District Council has approved plans for Sainsbury’s in Truro to expand and add a multi-storey car park. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/sainsburys_expansion_approved.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/09/sainsburys_expansion_approved.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 01 September 2008 15:51 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg A former job centre in Bristol is being refurbished to a 1950s-style bowling alley for £1 million. http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/bloomsbury_bowling_comes_to_bristol.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/News/2008/08/bloomsbury_bowling_comes_to_bristol.html;jsessionid=7CFCB279E4CCB99ECB1FA50A828D070A Andrea Klettner 27 August 2008 14:47 http://www.cnplus.co.uk:80/images/southwest_resized_70_tcm18-196455.jpg