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Advice and Support

The Conservation team at Bath Preservation Trust is made up of Caroline Kay (Chief Executive), Joanna Robinson (Senior Conservation Officer) and Alexandra Best (Planning and Conservation Assistant).  The team is advised and supported in-house by Dr Amy Frost, who is an architectural historian and Senior Curator of the Trust’s four museums. The role and remit of the team is to monitor and influence development in Bath to ensure that change is well- managed, high quality, sensitive and appropriate to Bath’s very special interest as a World Heritage Site.  We do this by monitoring all planning applications and responding formally to a number of them, being a stakeholder and ‘critical friend’ in many local projects and groups, offering advice, support and learning on a very wide range of issues and topics including Bath’s large development sites and by proactively engaging with B&NES on many matters affecting the city today.

Our Campaigning Objectives provide further detail.

The team is supported by our Architecture & Planning Committee, 16 professional advisers from a wide range of relevant backgrounds, including surveying, town planning, building conservation and architecture. The committee meets every second Tuesday of the month to consider planning applications and pre-application presentations.  The aim is always to respond with clear and constructive observations and advice. We positively welcome any requests by developers to engage with them on developments large and small, and the earlier the better.

Joanna and Alexandra are based at the Old School House in the courtyard of the Museum of Bath Architecture on the Vineyards, Paragon. You are most welcome to drop in and see us with any relevant Bath-related planning issue you would like to discuss, or for conservation/listed building advice, though it may be an idea to phone ahead on 01225 338727 to make sure we are in the office that day. For queries please do email Alexandra on conservation@bptrust.org.uk.

The Bath Preservation Trust Team
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Advice on how to spot and report unauthorised building works

Caroline Kay

Caroline Kay

Chief Executive
Caroline Kay has been Chief Executive of Bath Preservation Trust since September 2007. Before joining BPT, Caroline worked for many years as a consultant in Arts and Heritage projects with UK/US consultancy AEA Consulting, and as an expert adviser for the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. She has a first class degree from Oxford University in Physiology and Psychology and a Masters in Organisational Psychology from Bristol University. She is a member of the Regional Advisory Board of the National Trust in the South West and a Director of Bath Bridge.
Joanna Robinson

Joanna Robinson

Senior Conservation Officer
Joanna has a BA(Hons) Town & Country Planning, MA Town Planning, PGDip Architectural Conservation; with over 15 years experience in planning & conservation, she has been in post since 2007

Alexandra Best

Planning and Conservation Assistant
Alexandra has a BA (Hons) in History and Ancient History from the University of Exeter, and an MA in Conservation Studies from the University of York. She has previously had experience in conservation planning with York Civic Trust. She has been in post since 2019
Dr Amy Frost

Dr Amy Frost

Senior Curator
Amy holds a Doctorate and MPhil in Architectural History and Theory from Bath University and a BA in Art History & Architecture. She specialises in British architecture of the 18th and early 19th century, and is an expert on the life and work of William Beckford. Amy also is a part-time teaching fellow at the Bath University as well as her many BPT hats. Amy has worked at the Trust for 17 years.

Contact Us

Bath Preservation Trust, No. 1 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LR. Registered in England No. 294789
01225 338727
conservation@bptrust.org.uk
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