4
news opinion
This month, in a series of articles, we celebrate entrepreneurialism – the key ingredient in the UK recovery, and the most exciting aspect of business life ...
Entrepreneurialism is defined as the skill you need to start your own business.
An entrepreneur is someone who starts and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
It’s the risk element that we all admire. The fact that someone is willing to put their house on the line, to remortgage, or use their life savings to create an enterprise and satisfy a dream.
It was interesting at a Roundtable discussion with entrepreneurs last month that the business founders didn’t start their companies to ’get rich’ and earn a pile of money. They were driven instead by the desire to create a successful business, employing good people, and achieving something to be proud of.
Sometimes, an entrepreneur starts an organisation to prove a point, to show those who say “that won’t work, you’ll never make a success of it“, that they were wrong. Sometimes, the entrepreneur spots a gap in the market, and thinks “I could do that“.
Whether Women in Business award winners; business owners that we feature in our Southern Entrepreneurs series; or the leading figures that we profile in our special interviews – all are examples of successful business people heading up growing companies.
And there are encouraging signs that schools and colleges are realising that entrepreneurs can start young, and business enterprise is a skill that should be taught at an early age.
David Murray Publisher
www.businessmag.co.uk
Planning secured for £100m of new town centre development
3-D street view of the Citrus Building from Old Christchurch Road, Bournemouth
A Bournemouth company has helped over £100 million of development in the town to get off the ground.
Planning consultancy Terence O’Rourke, based in Deansleigh Road, has secured planning approval for building projects that will change the town’s skyline over coming years.
Among the projects with secured planning are:
• Terrace Mount, a development by THAT Group featuring a 172-bedroom four-star Hilton Hotel (including ’Sky Bar’ and leisure club), a 120-bedroom Hampton by Hilton hotel, together with 59 residential apartments and public and private underground car parking.
• The Citrus Building, a curved mixed-use development of 64 apartments with ground floor café/restaurant in the Horseshoe Common area. The building is also designed by Terence O’Rourke. The project, led by Bournemouth Development Company, is due for completion in early 2015.
• The Bournemouth Development Company’s redevelopment of Madeira Road West car park to provide purpose-built accommodation
for 378 students of the Arts University Bournemouth, together with an adjoining 382-space public car park to serve the Lansdowne and Old Christchurch Road area.
• Bournemouth University International College, a development by Watkin Jones with Kaplan International Colleges and Bournemouth University which, when complete, will welcome 600 international students every year on preparatory programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate study.
Andrew Elliott, technical director at Terence O’Rourke, said: “A diverse mix of new schemes will support the vitality of the town centre and hopefully attract more businesses, tourists and inward investment to this bustling part of Dorset.“
Terence O’Rourke, which has a 97% success rate on planning, has been based in Bournemouth since its inception in 1985 and played a major part in development in the town. It conceived the Grand Garden Walk to link core town centre attractions with the Lower Gardens and seafront, and has also helped deliver other high-profile buildings in the local area, including the new passenger terminal for Bournemouth Airport.
In the November 2014 issue of The Business Magazine
@TheBusinessMag Business THE M A GA ZINE TM
• Technology • Solent 250 list revealed • Taxation • Alternative Lenders • Focus on Fareham & Whiteley • Outsourcing • Entrepreneurs
Details: 0118-9766410
sales@elcot.co.uk
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – OCTOBER 2014
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60