Housing move

4:16pm Friday 18th April 2008

Tenants of Cottsway Housing joined staff, board members and local councillors to mark the official opening of new offices in Chipping Norton.

DIY depot opens

4:14pm Friday 18th April 2008

Eurocell Building Plastics has opened a new depot in Abingdon, its first in Oxfordshire. The opening represents a significant achievement for Eurocell as it means it now has at least one depot in every county in England, with more than 80 nationwide.

Garden design office

4:12pm Friday 18th April 2008

A new state-of-the-art design office at the Notcutts Garden Centre in Nuneham Courtney has opened its doors for business. The facility, run by Notcutts Landscape and Garden Design Consultants, will enable the company, which has won numerous gold medals for its exhibits at Chelsea Flower Show, to provide customers in the Oxford area with a comprehensive design and project management service.

Business park for sale

4:05pm Friday 18th April 2008

Abingdon business park, former site of the MG car factory, is up for sale at £48m. The MG factory closed in 1979 and the site was sold to insurance company Standard Life.

Airport business centre

3:50pm Friday 18th April 2008

Oxford Airport is open for business - that is the message from bosses as worked started on a new commercial centre. The £2m business aviation centre is designed to help the airport make the most of growing traffic from business travellers along with associated aircraft crew.

Review welcomed

3:44pm Friday 18th April 2008

Savills property consultants in Oxford has welcomed the Government's announcement that the planning application process is to be streamlined.

Engineering firm moves

3:43pm Friday 18th April 2008

The Oxfordshire office of engineering consultancy Gifford is to relocate to new £3m premises on Chawley Business Park at Cumnor Hill. Since 2000, the company has been based in Witney, where 60 members of staff operate from two office sites in Langdale Court.

High-tech business park planned

3:42pm Friday 18th April 2008

Up to 850 jobs could be created in Grove if a new business park is built near the village. Developers are eyeing up a patch of farmland, near Bellingers Garage, between the A338 Station Road and Letcombe Brook.

Barn in business

2:39pm Thursday 27th March 2008

A historic barn at a south Oxfordshire farm has been converted into state-of-the-art offices. The listed Grade II barn at Manor Farm, Cholsey, was built in the early 1700s, then added to throughout that century.

Don't panic

2:36pm Thursday 27th March 2008

Oxford's industrial market will enjoy rental growth of more than five per cent in 2008, according to agents Lambert Smith Hampton. The company claims the current market downturn is entirely due to yield/price adjustments, and little to do with an underlying weakening in occupier markets.

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