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’)…
The Trust has very recently responded in detail to the Local Plan Issues and Options Consultation which considers options relating to the establishment of new strategic policies and amend existing policies for the region. In particular, we’ve been pleased to see proposed new policy options relating to housing and purpose built student accommodation, but we…
The Trust was delighted to hear today that both the Sydney Gardens and the Cleveland Pools restoration projects have been awarded significant Heritage Lottery funding. We have been involved as stakeholders in both projects and have been hopeful that both important historic sites would receive the money they need to regenerate and revitalise these neglected…
Today we have announced that we do not intend to proceed further with our Judicial Review of Bath Cricket Club’s proposed student housing development. Instead we will be initiating a ‘fighting fund’. The Trust initiated the Judicial Review because it believed the Council Development Management Committee erred in law in their decision making. In particular…
