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 […]
Transition Bath Transport and Built Environment Group are doing a project to promote and enhance walking (and cycling or bus travel) to the Chelsea Road shops and services. We hope that this will benefit both the local shops and the local community. Chelsea Road is an important local shopping area, but currently used as a […]
Welcome to this month’s Transition happenings in Bath… View this email in your browser June Newsletter In this edition: *|MC:TOC|* Film: The Dash for Gas – Sat 14th June, 2pm Come and find out what ‘fracking’ would mean for Bath. This is particularly relevant given the Infrastructure Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech. We’ll […]
Hugh, our treasurer, has recently started a new business, Fungi Fruits. He’s using coffee grounds collected from local coffee shops to grow mushrooms in the arches under Green Park Station. He plans to sell them ‘above ground’ at the Saturday Farmers Market*, and to local restaurants. A prime example of a sustainable business, producing food […]
In our response we praising the aims of the strategy which highlight the benefits of taking regular exercise for physical, mental and social well-being, as well as the wider environmental benefits, and it identifies the impact of inactivity on all ages of the population and the wider costs. The figures are shocking. Nearly 600 deaths […]
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 […]
As part of the redevelopment of the ex-MOD site in Bath Linden and Bloor homes have submitted a planning application for 180 homes at Ensleigh. Although we support the building of the homes at Ensleigh, we have objected to the application on the following grounds: Lack of provision of affordable housing, a nursing home was […]
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 […]