We’re delighted to report that Beckford’s Tower has received initial support* from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the redevelopment project ‘Our Tower’: Reconnecting Beckford’s Tower and Landscape for all. Development funding of £422,600 towards a development programme of £480,778 has been awarded to help Bath Preservation Trust progress their plans to apply for a…
Beckford Tower on Historic England At-Risk Register: major fundraising required Historic England has today published the 2019 Heritage At Risk Register, and has this year included Beckford’s Tower on the list. Standing at 120ft and enjoying panoramic views, the early C19th grade I-listed tower has been included on the Register because it is exposed to…
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…
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 officer’s 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…
The Trust has responded to the recent planning reform consultation issued by the government. The paper looked at relaxing change of use rules for retail units to make some changes of use class permitted development. In addition the reforms look to gauge feedback on the proposal to allow some form of roof addition/extensions (i.e upward ‘space’)…
