Scheduled Road Works in our area - October - December 2026

Below are details of all planned roadworks that affect our immediate area, some may be just outside the ward but could impact your daily travel. These are shown in date order.

Pennard Green - 06.10.2026 - 11.11.2026 - BANES, Skip outside number 6, some carriageway incursion

How Hill - 20.10.2026 - 15.11.2026 - BANES, Skip outside number 1, some carriageway incursion

Lower Bristol Road - 27.10.2026 - BANES - Tree Felling, two way lights in place

West Close - 27.10.2026 - 29.10.2026 - Wessex Water - Repair Service leak near number 15, give and take boards in use

Woodview Terrace - 27.10.2026 - 29.10.2026 - Wessex Water - Repair Service leak at side of number 6

Redland Park - 27.10.2026 - 29.10.2026 - Wessex Water - Repair Service leak outside number 165

The Hollow - 14.10.2026 - 04.11.2026 - National Grid - Utility Asset Works, two way traffic lights

Lower Bristol Road - 02.11.2026 - 03.11.2026 - Wessex Water - Utility Section 81/defect near Rackfield Place, traffic lights in place

The Hollow - 09.11.2026 - 10.11.2026 - Wessex Water - Section 81/Defect, outside Southdown Methodist Church, two way traffic lights in place

The Hollow - 11.11.2026 - 18.11.2026 - National Grid - Disconnection or Alteration of supply near Southdown Methodist Church, two way traffic lights in place

Connection Road - 16.11.2026 - Openreach - Utility Repair and Maintenance works, road closed

Clyde Gardens - 16.11.2026 - Openreach - Utility Repair and Maintenance works, road closed

Kelston View/North Way - 16.11.2026 - 25.11.2026 - National Grid - New service connection, two way traffic lights in place

Lower Bristol Road - 23.11.2026 - 24.11.2026 - Network Rail - work near Connection Road, two way traffic lights in place

Alec Ricketts Close - 02.12.2026 - 04.12.2026 - Wessex Water - Repair services to the side of 32 Poolemead Road, road closed

Where roads are closed, we will provide full details of impacts on bus services (if applicable) closer to the date of the works. 

Some work is added to this list at short notice and we will endeavour to let residents know as soon as we have been made aware

BANES Planned road resurfacing works in our area

Location	Ward	Proposed date
Haycombe Drive (phase 1)	Twerton	Completed
Highland Road	Twerton	Completed
Lansdown View	Southdown	Completed
Sladebrook Road & Lytton Gardens	Southdown	Completed
Triangle North & Stanley Road West	Westmoreland	Completed

Planning Applications for Twerton and Whiteway ward w/c 26.10.2026

This week we have no new planning application for Twerton and Whiteway. 

Planning applications Twerton and Whiteway Ward week commensing 19th October 2026

 We have only one application this week that should not be controversial.

Address of Proposal

19 Eleanor Close, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QL

Proposal

Installation of new solar panels and air source heat pump.

Type of Application

Full Application

Status

Pending Consideration

Ward

Twerton

Planning Portal Reference Number

PP-15220326

Applicant Name

Mr Christopher Hewings

Agent Name

Value Optimised Retrofit Limited

Agent Address

Office 7 North Bristol Baths Gloucester Road Bristol BS7 8BN

Case Officer Name

Kirsty Pratt

To see more about this application or make a comment please follow this link.

https://app.bathnes.gov.uk/webforms/planning/details.html?refval=26/03732/FUL#details_Section

Pennyquick Hill Lorries

 We are pressing the council to remove the spilled cement from the carriageway on Pennyquick Hill.

It seems that every day another Lorry gets stuck looseing traction whilst going uphill despite the fact they shouldn’t be using the road as it has an 18 ton weight limit.

Cllr Sarah Moore who has been chasing this matter said: ‘We have fought hard to get the weight limit in place which will become enforceable when the new signs go up in the next few weeks”.

The Cement still needs to be removed despite matters that will improve once the heavy Lorries are removed from this road.

Time to book your flu or Covid Jab

 The best time to have your flu vaccine is in the autumn or early winter before flu starts spreading. Therefore, it is important to receive a flu jab.

On an average year the flu virus kills 11,000 people and hospitalises many thousands more. The flu vaccine is your best protection. The flu vaccine helps protect against flu, which can be a serious or life-threatening illness. It's offered through the Council every year in autumn and winter to all staff to help prevent serious illness from flu.

Am I eligible for a flu jab?

The NHS eligibility criteria is clear and lists high-risk groups, including those aged 65 and over. If you are in a high-risk group, you will be invited to attend your flu jab appointment by your GP.

The NHS flu vaccine is given to people who:

• are aged 65 or over (including those who will be 65 by 31 March 2027)
• are aged 18 to 64 and have certain long-term health conditions
• are pregnant
• live in a care home
• are the main carer for an older or disabled person, or receive a carer's allowance
• live with someone who has a weakened immune system
• are experiencing homelessness or staying in a homeless hostel or night shelter

Need to book a flu jab follow this link https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/vaccination-and-booking-services/book-flu-vaccination/

Community Energy Network Coordinator; Twerton and Whiteway

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Community Energy Network Coordinator; Twerton and Whiteway

Location: Bath Hybrid – working from home, BWCE office in Bath, or on site in the community partners’ location.
Reporting to: Head of Community Engagement at BWCE
Hours: Part-time (15 hours per week worked flexibly) 
Rate of pay: £150 /day or £20/ hr. The individual will be self-employed and responsible for arranging their own tax and NI payments.

BANES Community Energy Network is working with local community partners in Twerton and Whiteway to enable local residents to reduce energy bills, improve home energy efficiency and explore options for community-owned renewable energy projects.

The Community Energy Network Coordinator will carry out community engagement activities to enable local residents and community organisations to both participate in and benefit from BANES Community Energy Network activities in the area. The Community Energy Network Coordinator will display significant knowledge and understanding of the local community.

Working with the Community Energy Network (CEN) and local community partners, the coordinator will organise events, recruit and deploy local Energy Champions, raise awareness, and ensure the project’s activities are inclusive, practical, and aligned with the goals of embedding energy advice into everyday local services to help lower energy bills and improve energy efficiency, connecting community members to work together, and empowering communities to explore and build their own renewable energy projects.

Follow this link to find out more or to apply for the role 

https://www.bwce.coop/current-vacancies

New Changes to Plannig rules reduce democracy

 The new National Scheme of Delegation for planning decisions, which becomes mandatory from31 October 2026. There are no transitional arrangements, so this is a hard deadline. For B&NES. This means less planning applications that residents care about being able to be determined by councillors in committee reducing democratic accountability.

The key changes are:

• Schedule 1 applications must be determined by officers and cannot be called to Planning Committee. These include, broadly, householder applications, residential developments of up to nine dwellings on sites below 0.5 hectares, most reserved matters applications, minor commercial developments and a range of technical applications such as discharge of conditions, non-material amendments and lawful development certificates.
• Schedule 2 applications are also presumed to be delegated, but may go to Committee where the national gateway test is satisfied.
• For a Schedule 2 application to reach Committee, the nominated officer and nominated member must agree that Committee consideration is justified and the application must raise either a significant planning matter, having regard to the development plan and other material considerations, or an economic, social or environmental issue of significance to the local area.
• The national scheme therefore removes the existing ability to seek Committee consideration for Schedule 1 applications. Ward councillors can still request Committee consideration for Schedule 2 applications, but must identify the significant matters relied upon under the gateway test.
• The changes concern who determines an application, not how its planning merits are assessed: planning policies, material considerations and residents’ ability to make representations remain relevant to the determination process.
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• This is an important change because it reduces the range of applications over which local councillors and communities can seek public committee scrutiny. Our own scheme and constitutional arrangements must comply with the national requirements from 31 October.
  
  
  The change has been mandated by the Labour government who seem hell bent on pushing through reforms to the planning system although Your Local Lib Dem councillors remain opposed to these changes but have no choice but to work within the new scheme.
  
  
  It’s important to remember that residents and councillors will have less say in important decisions that affect our communities.
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