Community Christmas Tree - Twerton High Street

Councillors Sarah Moore and Tim Ball are pleased to confirm they have arranged for a Christmas Tree to be erected on Twerton High Street for the community to enjoy. The tree will be placed on the grassed area at the end of Clyde Gardens.

Working with Bath Funeral Directors on Twerton Parade, baubles will be available free of charge, for residents to collect and write a message on to remember a loved one that is no longer with us, which can then be hung on the tree through the festive season. NB only baubles should be hung on the tree.

The tree is due to be installed on Monday 1st December and baubles will be available from Tuesday 2nd December onwards.

Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Twerton High Street - Changes

The are of Twerton High Street that is currently owned by Greenacres it to go up for Auction in July.

The site is being split into 2 lots - 

Lot 1 - 105-110 High Street,Twerton

Key Features

• Comprises 8 shops (1 vacant), flat, and 12 flats sold-off on long leases
• Tenants include McColls, and William Hill
• Commercial accommodation extending to 1,353 sq m (14,566 sq ft)

Lot 2 - Land on the South side of 105-115 High Street Twerton, Bath

Key Features

• Comprises a total site area of approx. 0.133 ha (0.328 acres)

We will be looking at this very closely to make sure the High Street can finally be redeveloped to benefit the local community and will keep you updated on events.

Twerton High Street Regeneration Update

Following our recent updates, below is some further information on what is happening and planned for Twerton High Street. 

• Upcoming engagement/consultation: In terms of the Love Our High Streets Bath Local Centres project, an announcement is due soon for the engagement/consultation sessions which are programmed to take place August/September. 

• Newspaper storage and graffiti outside the former supermarket: B&NES is in discussion with Greenacres about removing the newspaper storage box and graffiti. We are also looking to arrange an art installation to be put in place in the shop windows.  

• 106 & 107 High Street Vacant Units: The occupation of these units is currently being worked through and temporary occupation of these should be in place later this Summer.

• Long term regeneration plans: The bid for WECA funding to support the development of a Twerton High Street Area Masterplan was successful and work on this project is scheduled to begin in September.

Twerton High Street - Love your High Street view sought

We are working closely with officers and have 2 consultation events scheduled next week to gather residents views on what they would like to see on Twerton High Street.

The more views we have the better we can make our High Street. Please do come along and get involved.

Bath City Football application - information workshops by Councillors

RE Bath City Football Club Planning application ref 19/02276/FUL

This planning application can be viewed and commented on the BANES planning web page here.

It is in the best public interest that residents are able to view the planning application and be able to make their own independent comments on the application which will make a significant change to Twerton High Street, and in that light your Twerton Councillors have enable a paper copy of the plans is available for residents to view at Rose Cottage on Twerton High Street.

We will be holding information workshops to assist residents in understanding the application and to be able to make comments, dates and places below.

Stall on Twerton High Street

Saturday 15^th and 22nd, June 10am till 12 noon

Bradburys Caff, Mount Road

29^th June 11am till 12 noon

Other times available by phoning Sarah

Bath City Football - Redevelopment

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.

Bath City Football Re-development - CONSULTATION UPDATE

As you are aware Bath City Football Club are looking to re-develop their stadium, this is in conjunction with a developer that is also looking to make significant changes to the way Twerton High Street will look.

We have been in touch with Bath City Football Community coordinator and we can confirm they will be holding 2 further public consultation events.

These will be held on:

• Wednesday 20th February, from 2pm to 8pm at 115a High Street, Twerton, BA2 1DB

• Saturday 23rd February from 12pm to 3pm (before kick-off at the home game with Slough Town) in Charlie's Bar at Twerton Park

Please do make sure you go along and have your view heard, do not assume someone else will speak for you.

Public Spaces Protection Order (Street drinking)

Following numerous complaints from local residents, we are pleased to confirm we have managed to get agreement from both Bath & North East Somerset Council and the Police to make Twerton High Street a family friendly environment, with the implementation of a Public Spaces Protection Order.  

This means that it is an offence to drink alcohol publicly and if caught may be issue with a Fixed Penalty Notice.

Councillor Tim Ball and local campaigner Sarah Moore were out in Twerton High Street yesterday erecting the notices, which means this order is now legally enforceable and anyone caught in contravention of this order can now be dealt with accordingly.

This is another step forward in making Twerton a community for everyone to enjoy. 

Dogs mess Twerton High Street

I have been receiving rather a lot of complaints from residents about the amount of dogs mess that there is on Twerton High Street that is being caused by just a few dogs.

I have asked that the dogs mess is cleared up and that the culprits the dog owners are caught and dealt with.

It is annoying that some people are not caring enough to pick up the mess that their dogs are making.

Please let me know if you are aware of further problems.

Twerton High Street ( Potential traffic delays)

We have been informed of possible delays for traffic just under Twerton arch that will be in place between between 7th August to the 16th August,

Western Power are carrying out works in the-footpath and the highway and may be using traffic control signalling although I cant see the point as it is all one way.

The issue is that there is likely to be delays in traffic flows from the Lower Bristol Road into Twerton High Street and residents should be aware of possible delays.

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Shophouse Road High Street Junction

A new crossing has been installed at the bottom of Shophouse Road very close to the Junction with Twerton High Street.

As part of the works the traffic priority has been changed meaning traffic from the Lower Bristol Road has to give way when approaching this junction.

I have asked for the sake of safety that advisory signs are put in place warning motorists of the change.

The work that ha been carried out has been done with financial support of the 4 councillors for Twerton & Westmoreland through the councils ward councillor initiative fund,

Community engagement

As part of our community engagement we are again calling on residents on a Friday morning and will continue to call on residents until we have been to every street in Twerton.

So far since May we have called on about 1,000 doors in Twerton and have spoken with hundreds of people.

From this week in an extension to community engagement Councillor Tim Ball will be attending one of the three community venues in the ward where residents gather for tea and a chat.

Tim will be available to talk with anyone who has an issue or wants to raise a concern / problem that needs to be resolved.

This week Tim will be popping into Rose Cottage in Twerton High Street between 11am and 12 noon on Thursday 24th for a cup of tea and a chat.

If you need to speak to us in confidence then please use the contact details on this blog.