If you are planning on or are in the process of having building work done on your home did you know you can potentially avoid paying VAT at 20% on some of the work if it involves ‘energy saving’ for example insulation. Building work associated with ‘energy saving’ is only chargeable at 5% but most […]
Bath and North East Somerset Council (B&NES) along with Julian House Bike Workshop on Corn Street are offering monthly workshops to provide you with access to a professional bike workshop so you can maintain your bike. Help will be on hand to provide support and advice on any work you might like to do on […]
Bath and North East Somerset Council have recently launched 2 consultation relating to transport in central Bath: Bath Air Quality Action Plan (deadline 26 Nov 2017) Parking Strategy (deadline 23 Oct 2017) Parking Strategy Consultation This consultation is to help formulate a long-term plan for parking in Bath, and includes: Parking Standards for new developments; Public off‐street parking including Park and Ride; Public on‐street parking and Residents parking zones; Private off‐street parking; Parking Charges; […]
Bath and North East Somerset Council have recently launched 2 consultation relating to transport in central Bath: Bath Air Quality Action Plan (deadline 26 Nov 2017) Parking Strategy (deadline 23 Oct 2017) Bath Air Quality Action Plan Consultation The consultation is essentially a survey to find out resident’s views on a large number of proposals which might […]
If you would like to signup to receive our newsletter by email click here. Newsletter June 2017 Our newsletter this month is dominated by the ‘hot topic’ in Bath this month -Transport and Air Pollution. Following on from our highly successful mayoral hustings, Conservative Tim Bowles has been elected regional mayor. We also recently interviewed Bath’s parliamentary candidates […]
A website and energy education programme being developed by Transition Bath and Bath: Hacked has been trialled at Freshford Primary School. the aim of the trial was to improve the website we have developed which displays smart meter data from schools in Bath, and allows school’s to compete in a competition to save energy by […]
Repairing is the new, on-trend ‘R’ in waste reduction. The concept of the 3Rs – reduce, re-use, recycle – was originally developed by WRAP (Waste Resources Action Plan). Now repair cafés are starting up across the country, mainly in the larger cities where there is a greater pool of expertise. Bath Repair Café was started […]
B&NES Placemaking Plan has been adopted after several years of development, approval by the Planning Inspectorate and B&NES Council. The plan sets out where major housing and commercial development can take place in Bath over the next few years. The major impact from a sustainability perspective is that subject to viability all new developments for homes […]
This welcome addition to the Bath street scene is a collaboration between the Walcot Street Traders, Avon Wildlife Trust and Vegmead. The intention is to create green spaces all along Walcot Street. The first project has transformed the waste ground at the top of the entrance to the Cattle Market car park, to provide seating, […]
With growing season in full swing, the Transition Bath’s small community gardens scattered around Bath are flourishing. Gooseberries have all been picked and tomatoes are swelling nicely. Gardening sessions are fairly regular at Park Street (Sundays 11am-1pm, weather permitting, photo to left) and on an ad-hoc basis at Donkey Lane, Broad Street Place (YMCA courtyard) […]