The centre will have 12 units, four product development areas, spaces for exhibition, training and workshops, meeting rooms and a café. The hub is expected to create 250 jobs.

 

Its current completion date is 2020 and it will be funded by the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) through the Local Growth Fund.

 

North Somerset Council is looking for an operator for the complex, with the 15-year contract currently out to tender. 

 

Cllr Elfan Ap Rees, North Somerset Council’s deputy leader and executive member for economic development, said: "There is clearly a demand for such a facility. It will be the only centre of its type in the South West and will help to enhance the undoubted strengths of the area’s food and drink sector.

 

"It will not only benefit some of our smaller businesses, but will also kick-start others and will play a vital role in the council’s bid to drive growth in the North Somerset economy and create local jobs."

 

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A large complex used by many different businesses and industries needs to have a great visitor monitoring system. This would minimise accidental disruptions from people ending up in the wrong place, and would also help to ensure safety during fire alarms. 

 

Time and Attendance South West offers the Management of Contractors and Visitors Software (MCVS) to help everyone from staff to visitors to the postman be in the right place at the right time. 

 

This network-based application allows you to advance book visitor appointments and pre-book on site contractors, using either the PC based application or a user’s Internet browser. Unlike the typical “sign-in” book, this complies with GDPR because visitors can’t see each other’s data and it is only kept for as long as it is required. 

 

If there is no reception area in your particular workspace, or if there is not a designated receptionist, we can also offer you the MCVS Unmanned Reception Console, which enables visitors to check themselves in for appointments using a touchscreen. This can send an email directly to the person who will be hosting them, and logs them in on the central system. 

 

With all visitors and contractors safely logged into the system, you can take advantage of our fire roll call system. This automatically prints off a list of who is logged/clocked into the zone covered by our system when the alarm goes off.