As many of you will now know, the planning application from Greenacre Developments and Bath City Football Club have now been submitted and are open for comments from the public.
The planning application can be found here and the timeline for this application is as follows:
Date Application Received: 22/05/2019
Date Application Validated: 29/05/2019
Neighbourhood Consultations sent on: 31/05/2019
Standard Consultations sent on: 31/05/2019
Last advertised on: 13/06/2019
Latest Site Notice posted on: 13/06/2019
Expiry Date for Consultation: 04/07/2019
Target Decision Date: 28/08/2019
We are aware that this application has been received well by some residents but not by the majority of others and are keen to ensure as many people put their views forward on this as possible as it will shape how Twerton High Street will look for years to come.
Both Tim Ball and Sarah Moore have great concerns about the application in it's present form including over-development of the site and lack of infrastructure, specifically how the area will deal with the considerable larger quantity of bus issues that would arise from such a large increase in student population in the area.
We also feel that the lack of residents in the area out of term time and football season will not improve this area for a large period of the year, therefore being of no overall benefit to our area. The inclusion of community and cafe facilities were apparently borne out of the resident consultations, however, since these were held, both Rose Cottage and the Village Hall have seen a large increase of resident involvement and this could therefore be detrimental to the already established community facilities within the village that local residents use.
As such both Tim Ball and Sarah Moore will be fully reviewing the large quantity of documentation that accompanies this application prior to making any representations to the Council about it and would urge all residents that have an opinion either way to do the same. This re-development needs to benefit the community of Twerton and not just the developer and Football Club.
The planning application can be found here and the timeline for this application is as follows:
Date Application Received: 22/05/2019
Date Application Validated: 29/05/2019
Neighbourhood Consultations sent on: 31/05/2019
Standard Consultations sent on: 31/05/2019
Last advertised on: 13/06/2019
Latest Site Notice posted on: 13/06/2019
Expiry Date for Consultation: 04/07/2019
Target Decision Date: 28/08/2019
We are aware that this application has been received well by some residents but not by the majority of others and are keen to ensure as many people put their views forward on this as possible as it will shape how Twerton High Street will look for years to come.
Both Tim Ball and Sarah Moore have great concerns about the application in it's present form including over-development of the site and lack of infrastructure, specifically how the area will deal with the considerable larger quantity of bus issues that would arise from such a large increase in student population in the area.
We also feel that the lack of residents in the area out of term time and football season will not improve this area for a large period of the year, therefore being of no overall benefit to our area. The inclusion of community and cafe facilities were apparently borne out of the resident consultations, however, since these were held, both Rose Cottage and the Village Hall have seen a large increase of resident involvement and this could therefore be detrimental to the already established community facilities within the village that local residents use.
As such both Tim Ball and Sarah Moore will be fully reviewing the large quantity of documentation that accompanies this application prior to making any representations to the Council about it and would urge all residents that have an opinion either way to do the same. This re-development needs to benefit the community of Twerton and not just the developer and Football Club.
