The next round of consultation for the West of England Spatial and Transport plan is currently open for comments and it’s important that residents of Bath and the surrounding area put pen to paper to voice their thoughts on the proposed plans. source: West of England joint spatial and Transport Plan. The spatial plan will […]
Fresh Range, a relatively new Bristol based online food retailer which specialises in the delivery of locally sourced food has won a B&NES council contract to supply 60 schools with seasonal food from local producers. Fresh Range can also supply the food direct to homes in Bath (BA1, BA2 & BA3) often at below supermarket […]
Bath & North East Somerset Council has won the National British Food Fortnight competition for 2016. The programme of events which celebrated British Food Fortnight between the 17th September and 2nd October involved over 30 businesses, schools and the launch of a new online local food directory all contributed was the unanimous winner in this national […]
Since we gained funding from the Open Data Institute in August to develop a website, we have been busy beavering away developing the website which will form the basis of a ‘School Energy Competition’ which we plan on using to teach primary school children about energy. We now have a working test website, which has […]
The proposal being developed by Adam Reynolds, who is Chair of CycleBath, aims to make the centre of Bath a more pleasant and less polluted place, by restricting traffic flow into the centre of Bath. The initial suggestion includes 17 number plate recognition cameras to restrict vehicles entering a central area of the city to […]
A new group called “The Bath Tram Re-Introduction Group” has been formed following a meeting at BRSLI to promote the reintroduction of trams in Bath. The group hope that by reintroducing trams they will help solve Bath’s congestion and pollution problems. The proposal suggests installing overhead electrical rails, and rails in the road to form […]
The community owned waterwheel at the Old Mill Hotel has finally started turning. The wheel was the first project discussed by the newly formed Bath & West Community Energy 6 years ago, but has now, finally, come to fruition. In the mean time BWCE has raised just under £13million for 16MW of projects for solar […]
Cleveland Pools has just submitted its planning application for the the restoration of the UK’s only surviving Georgian lido. The application will include the world’s first naturally treated, heated, outdoor swimming pool. Transition Bath is particularly supportive of the use of a water-sourced heat pump which will extract latent heat from the River Avon to heat […]
As previously reported by Transition Bath under Bath Abbey’s £19million Footprint project the Abbey will become more sustainable by using hot water from the Roman Springs to heat the Abbey. On Monday 21st November Charles Curnock presented an update on the project. The mains points of interest from a sustainability perspective from his presentation were: […]
Bath: Hacked have been working for the last year, to use data from Strava a smart phone GPS tracking app to work out where people are cycling in Bath. This data provides an insight into the cycle routes taken within Bath by Strava users which can’t be obtained in any other way, and has the […]