Outline planning approval has been given by the B&NES Development Management Committee for the new B&NES flagship mixed use development at Bath Quays North (site of the Avon Street car park). The scheme looks to set the detailed design codes and form, height, scale parameters for the scheme, including access, public realm and street layout. …
Following the Council’s decision to approve a bulky student accommodation block on the Cricket Club site, against the advice (in that form) of their officers and Historic England, and following the Secretary of State’s advice NOT to call the application in, BPT is considering putting forward a case for judicial review. Preliminary legal advice suggests…
Stadium for Bath is to launch the next round of consultation on its vision for a new leisure, sporting and community destination at the Rec. The Stadium for Bath public exhibition will be held in the Ricoh Suite, in the South Stand of Bath’s current stadium at the Rec, from 12pm to 7pm on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th July,…
BPT has warned B&NES Councillors and the Senior Planning Team about the potential for harm to the Outstanding Universal Value of the WHS should Phase 2 of Mulberry Park be given the go ahead. Revisions to the scheme have recently been submitted but in our view do not mitigate the harm proposed. In a letter…
The Trust has responded in the detail to the current consultation on the university masterplan from 2020. We have had considerable and well publicised concerns regarding the flurry of purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) applications coming forward in the last few years on the city’s brownfield sites. Therefore our primary issue regarding the masterplan is…
Local MP Wera Hobhouse organised a conference recently (Sat 9th June) to hear from a variety of speakers on the issues surrounding traffic congestion and pollution in Bath. Our CEO Caroline Kay gave a presentation to the audience, outlining some quick fixes as well as more long term measures for the Council to implement. Two…
BPT notes the news story about a sale of the Min and looks forward to any formal announcement from either vendor or purchaser. We intend to continue to take an active interest the Min and how its future will be determined. BPT last week heard that, disappointingly, our application to have the Min registered as…
Following the accident on to the Cleveland Bridge toll house, Bath Preservation Trust is keen to hear how this important Grade II* listed structure, designed by Goodridge, architect of Beckford’s Tower as well as Cleveland Bridge, is to be appropriately restored and repaired. There cannot be the unacceptable 18 month delays which we saw with…
B&NES Council has finally made the right decision in relation to a proposed Park and Ride on Bathampton Meadows. We regret that so much time, money and energy has been spent in developing a scheme which was so harmful and would have brought so few benefits, but the decision is better taken now, when no…
The Trust is pleased that the two listed building applications for alterations to listed bridges in B&NES (Pixash Bridge and Clay Lane bridge) have been withdrawn. We had OBJECTED to these applications on the grounds that the solutions were overly interventionist, causing substantial and irreversible harm; that they did not represent an appropriate solution for these…
