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.

Bath City Football ground redevelopment

Last night was the first community engagement session at Bath City Football ground to take a look at what the community would like to see on the site as part of the proposed redevelopment.

It was a really great event and very well attended.  It was refreshing to see so many people taking the time to put their views forward.

The notes and outcome of the meeting will be written up shortly and published on the football clubs website.

We are looking forward to further meetings about this redevelopment and are hopeful that, if developed successfully this site has the potential to rejuvenate Twerton and benefit a large number residents.