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BPT Responds to Latest Design Revisions to Bath Quays North Scheme

October 28, 2021Bath Preservation TrustBath Quays, Major development site, Planning Updates

BPT has responded to the latest revised plans for the Bath Quays North Scheme (application 20/04965/ERES). The design has been amended to introduce more variety in the elevations of the building plots, particularly as viewed as part of the riverside. A stronger vertical emphasis has been introduced to ‘break up’ the strong horizontal line of…

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Sign up for the Bathscape Views and Vistas Workshop

October 21, 2021Bath Preservation TrustBathscape, World Heritage Site

What’s your favourite view? Do you have a favourite view in the Bathscape area? Bathscape (a project in partnership with BPT) are looking for volunteers to research and share their favourite viewpoints in and around the city. Using photography, fieldwork, and online research you can help share the importance, history and ever-changing face of our…

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Bath Preservation Trust Responds to Consultations on Local Plan Partial Update and Changes to Supplementary Planning Documents

October 21, 2021Bath Preservation TrustConsultations, Planning policy news

BPT has responded to 4 local planning consultations, including the Local Plan Partial Update and revised Sustainable Construction and Retrofitting Supplementary Planning Document. Whilst we recognise the approach of B&NES Council is amongst the most forward-thinking of local Planning Authorities in the country,  and we welcome and support the primacy of the Climate and Ecological…

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This Week at Herschel Museum: The Weird and Wonderful World of Uranus

October 7, 2021Bath Preservation TrustUncategorized

The Weird and Wonderful World of Uranus 8 – 10 October 2021 Bath’s Herschel Museum Joins World Space Week with weekend of special events that also celebrates women in space The Herschel Museum in Bath is taking part in an international event organised by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and Leicester University, called The Weird…

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Planning Update: September 2021

September 24, 2021Bath Preservation TrustPlanning Updates

The latest on local consultations, planning applications and appeals across Bath and its environs, as well as national planning news. You can read BPT’s Planning Update for September 2021 here.

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Homebase Appeal Allowed, Benefits of Development would ‘Substantially Outweigh’ Harm to the World Heritage Site

September 24, 2021Bath Preservation TrustAppeal Decision, Homebase, Major development site, Planning Updates, World Heritage Site

As of 2nd September, the appeal for a proposed care community on the Homebase site has been allowed. You can read the full appeal decision notice here. Application 20/00259/FUL was originally refused at Planning Committee on grounds of poor design due to scale, height, bulk and massing and inappropriate materials with resulting harm to the…

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Planning Update: August 2021

August 12, 2021Bath Preservation TrustNews, Planning policy news, Planning Updates

The latest on local consultations, planning applications and appeals across Bath and its environs, as well as national planning news. You can read BPT’s Planning Update for August 2021 here.

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Bath Preservation Trust appoints new CEO

July 26, 2021Bath Preservation TrustBPT Updates

Bath Preservation Trust (BPT) has appointed Alex Sherman as its new Chief Executive. Alex – who joins BPT after seven years as Head of Business for the South West Heritage Trust – will take up his new role on 4 October 2021.  Alex says “I am delighted to be joining Bath Preservation Trust at such…

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5G Monopole Approved in the Conservation Area

July 14, 2021Bath Preservation Trust5G, Conservation Area, Major development site, World Heritage Site

BPT has responded to an increasing number of applications for telecommunications masts and 5G upgrades around Bath. This latest prior approval application is for a 20m high ‘slimline’ monopole on Locksbrook Road within the conservation area. BPT continues to acknowledge the benefits of 5G upgrades and connectivity, and based on the proposed light industrial character…

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BPT Maintains Opposition Against Purpose-Built Student Accommodation on Hollis Building Site

July 14, 2021Bath Preservation TrustJubilee Centre, Major development site, Student Housing

A resubmitted application for the redevelopment of the Hollis Building site on Lower Bristol Road to provide 120 units of Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) over a new storage & distribution facility. A previous scheme was refused in 2020, to which BPT objected on grounds of the unjustified provision of further student housing, and the…

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