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Insider Property Awards 2010 - South West
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Insider’s 2010 property awards in the South West showcased the best of the region’s property activity through another challenging period.
The winners of the blue-riband gong at Insider’s 2010 property awards aren’t from the property industry, but have done something remarkable over the past two years.
Siblings Michelle and Kerry Michael were jointly named Property Personality of the Year, being honoured for their achievement in seeing through the rebuilding and reinvention of the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare in the period since the pier’s pavilion was destroyed by fire in mid-2008.
An audience of more than 230 property professionals were on hand to salute the pair, with Michelle picking up the award on bahalf of both siblings
The award recognised the extraordinary drive and resilience they have shown in the face of huge obstacles and challenges to reopen the pier only a few months behind the impossible-tight schedule the pair originally set themselves.
Other big winners on the night included Bath’s Nash Partnership, which won through in a crowded category to pip Stride Treglown to the honour of being named Architects Practice of the Year.
Nash impressed for the transformational impact of its work, delivering some schemes that have proved hard for others to drive forward, such as its resi-dominated mixed-use project at Kingston Mills in Bradford-on-Avon.
Another important award was Property Deal of the Year, which recognised the multi-faceted public sector-backed deal that saw the National Composites Centre confimed as coming to Bristol and Bath’s long-awaited SPark science park.
New categories were also up for grabs this year for the first time, including Commercial Property Law Firm of the Year. The winner at the first time of asking was Bristol’s legal giant Burges Salmon, beating competition from Withy King and Michelmores.
Another new award to this event was Consultancy Firm of the Year, which property agency and consultancy GVA Grimley managed to secure.
Other winners on the night included London & Devonshire Trust for the quick-fire transformation it delivered - and the leaseholder it subsequently secured – at One Portbury, an industrial warehouse at Bristol’s Portbury Dock.
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