A £22 million plan to redevelop Chippenham Golf Club and build a home for the elderly has been given to go ahead for Freeman Care. The clubhouse in Malmesbury Road will be demolished and 75 residential units and a 61-bed care home built. Plans were approved unanimously by Wiltshire Council planning committee on 24 November 2010.

The Mill Race in Walford, Ross-on-Wye has been chosen to appear in Alastair Sawday’s brand new guide, Eat Slow Britain as a champion of local and seasonal produce.

Hertel Solutions is to move to new modern facilities at Alton Business Park in Ross on Wye from Llanwarne this week. The move is part of efforts to centralise its back-of-house services for clients and provide better facilities for its City & Guilds training scheme.

MF FREEMAN Group walked away with a trio of accolades in the recent Forester Business Awards 2010. This remarkable Forest family firm’s Joint Managing Director Luke Freeman was voted Business Person of the Year by the panel of judges, while the company carried off the runner up prize in the Business of the Year category.

Freeman Care, the newest division of M F Freeman has secured an Option Agreement for a Care Village at Chippenham Golf Course. In addition, the division was successful earlier in the year in gaining planning consent to build a Care Home at a site in Newent.