We have made the following submission to the planning consultation: “Transition Bath is a charity aiming to build a more sustainable future for Bath. We would like to comment on specific sustainability aspects of the planning application 14/02272/EFUL. We commend the application for the following: Targeting Code for Sustainable Homes level 4 (although B&NES council […]
Summary During the planning stages of the development of 700 homes on the ex-MOD site at Foxhill in Bath Curo have proposed a number of alternative solutions to the problem of how to encourage cycling at the top of a very steep hill. This is a problem common to much of Bath, which is built […]
Bath Green Homes is actively seeking volunteer stewards for this year’s Open Homes Weekend, which will be held on 27th and 28th September. No previous experience is necessary – you just need to be happy to help welcome the public, have an interest in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and be free for our short […]
Bathford Energy Group (BEG) has recently completed their write-up of their first year of thermal imaging. Their project was run in conjunction with Transition Bath. During the course of the winter they surveyed 15 homes, identifying many common issues to both old and new homes. Identification of common issues The common sources of heat […]
A number of times we have been told that ‘Bath has the highest level of excess winter deaths in the UK’. Excess winter deaths are excess death rates in the winter over the summer most likely caused by cold weather. The explanation provided by those quoting high figures for Bath is that Bath has a […]
B&NES Council have approved a planning application for a solar PV farm at Marksbury, just to the west of Bath. The solar PV farm will: have over 8000 panels with a capacity of 2.3 MW will be the largest in the B&NES area and provide Bath with 2% of its renewable energy target and increase […]
Unfortunately the planning inspector Simon Emerson has removed B&NES council’s requirement for new homes to be built to Code for Sustainable Homes level 5 from the Core Strategy. He has also increased the number of homes to be built in Bath from 11,700 to 13,000 as a result of reducing the affordable homes requirement from […]
Summary Transition Bath supports the building of more sustainable homes. This is a statement which 98% of the residents of Bath agreed with in our housing survey of April 2014. Although the energy efficiency of new homes has been gradually improving over the last few years, it is often difficult to understand the impact of […]
Thank you to the 187 of you who added your names to the petition we wrote to Don Foster on 30th May 2014 to ask him to support the amendment to the Deregulation Bill which would allow B&NES council to continue to specify higher sustainability standards for new house building in Bath. We also wrote a […]
Energy Efficient Widcombe were involved in the Transition Bath Thermal Imaging project in 2014 and surveyed 15 homes. They have written up an extensive report of their experiences, which is available here. Some of the images they took, showing a wide selection of the issues they came across are shown above. In summary, their conclusions for […]