Our Chief Executive Caroline Kay will be speaking on behalf of BPT at tonight’s council meeting regarding potential responses to the recently-declared Climate Emergency. Those interested can watch a livestream online, and a recording will be made public following the meeting, both of which are accessible by clicking here. Below is our current statement regarding the…
It is with much excitement that we can finally announce that our ongoing programme of historic street sign conservation, enabled by the Bath World Heritage Enhancement Fund, has jointly won the Georgian Group Architectural Awards 2019. Additional congratulations are extended to our fellow winners Harrison Brooks architects and PERA for their work reinstating overthrow lighting on the…
We are pleased to announce that our final response regarding the scheme for Twerton Park Football Club is now available on our website. You can read our comment in full here. Whilst we support the enactment of redevelopment and regeneration in this area of Bath, we were unable to fully support the proposal due to issues…
Bath Rugby recently filed a scoping application https://bit.ly/2ZyCKgh for the Environmental Impact Assessment which they will be required to submit with their substantive planning application. This suggests that they are on track to submit a planning application in the foreseeable future. Bath Rugby have been consultative and open in their approach to Bath Preservation Trust…
We have been pleased to have been consulted on pre-application plans for the redevelopment of Twerton Park Football Club and have responded in detail to the project team. You can read our responses here and here. In general we support the redevelopment and regeneration of this part of Twerton High Street but have some concerns…
It has been drawn to our attention that people have been suggesting at hustings that Bath Preservation Trust (BPT) is ‘anti’ environmental measures to increase energy efficiency to properties. These people (including potentially prospective Councillors) are misinformed. Seven years ago, two years before the Council managed to produce its own sustainable homes retrofitting guidance, BPT…
We were very disappointed to attend the last Development Management Committee and to see the councillors approve the latest version of the Chivers House scheme (95 residential units in 2 blocks at 6 and 7 storeys high) despite the planning officers recommendation to refuse the scheme on the basis of loss of industrial space and…
Have you an architectural design project or idea you’d like to discuss with an impartial expert? Ask an Architect is an excellent design advice service offered by the Royal Institute of British Architects in partnership with Bath Preservation Trust to support design projects in the city of Bath and our next sessions are on 27 April. Visitors are…
A possible scheme for 180 student beds and 105 small apartments on the site of Hartwell’s Garage on Newbridge Road has recently been consulted upon and the Trust has provided a response to the developers. In our view the student accommodation element is unacceptable given the saturation of this type of accommodation in Bath already…
The Trust has issued a detailed response to the recent consultation on a new rugby stadium on the Rec. We have actively engaged with the project since its inception and have given detailed responses to emerging plans at each stage. The plans presented are the most detailed yet, and therefore we have been able to…
