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BioThermal Announces Second Successive Queen’s Award Win!

24-Apr-2018

Peli BioThermal, the global name in temperature controlled packaging, announces it has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise:
International Trade 2018. The company is celebrating its second
consecutive Queen’s Award win, adding the accolade to last year’s award
for innovation for its Chronos™ Advance.

Four Bedfordshire winners in Queen’s Awards

23-Apr-2018 HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Helen Nellis, has praised four
Bedfordshire-based companies who were among the winners in the 2018
Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, the UK’s most prestigious business
awards, announced on HM The Queen’s Birthday.

Local Plan to go before Full Council

20-Apr-2018

Central Bedfordshire Council is
taking its Local Plan to a Full Council meeting, to be held on Thursday
26 April, seeking authorisation to submit it to the Secretary of State.

Lift-off for Air Park for Cranfield Airport

05-Apr-2018

Proposals for a new Air Park at Cranfield Airport took a step further yesterday with the granting of outline planning permission by Central Bedfordshire Council.

The
plans for the Air Park will help the University realise its ambition to
develop a state-of-the-art airport for private jets and to help
maintain the airport for its research objectives.

Funding announced for dualling the final section of A421

22-Mar-2018 Central Bedfordshire Council has today learnt that it has secured £22.5
million worth of funding from the Department for Transport to complete
the dualling of the A421 road from Magna Park in Milton Keynes to the
roundabouts in Central Bedfordshire by junction 13 of the M1. The funding is being announced today in person by the Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, Secretary of State for Transport whilst visiting the Amazon distribution centre, which is located in Central Bedfordshire adjacent to where the new road layout will be built.

Central Bedfordshire logistics building wins prestigious award

09-Mar-2018 Prologis, the global leader in logistics real estate, celebrated success at the BREEAM Awards 2018 on March 6th, when it picked-up a prestigious award for one of its industrial logistics buildings.

New commercial space at Millbrook

28-Feb-2018

Millbrook is further expanding its site in Central Bedfordshire with a new, flexible commercial building. It will offer 950m2 of meeting room, event/presentation or workshop/garage space with office amenities. The new building would be suitable for either a customer wishing to base themselves at Millbrook, or a range of customers looking to use Millbrook’s secure test tracks in conjunction with a workshop, office or event space.

Local business helps Bedfordshire schools compete in major robotics tournament

20-Feb-2018 Four Bedfordshire schools have been helped to the regional final of a major robotics competition by a local engineering company.