A new Bath group ‘Bath Clean Air Champions’ has been formed to help reduce air pollution in Bath by persuading drivers to turn their engines off when they are parked. They are looking for volunteers to help educate both motorists and pedestrians about engine idling and the health impacts of air pollution. If you are […]
Local architects Hewitt Studios are developing a sustainable EV charging with integrated cafe/education space called ‘K:Port’, which is designed to provide offer EV charging under an aesthetically pleasing canopy which incorporates solar PV and rain water harvesting. It is the first project for Sustainable Technology Business Acceleration Hub run by Bath University. A video, explains the concept: […]
Transition Bath has been awarded a £3,400 grant from the BWCE Community Fund for a feasibility study for an electric bike project. The new project aims to encourage commuters in Bath to switch to cycling to work in preference to commuting short distances by car. The focus of this initiative is electric bikes (ebikes) in […]
The release of the Government’s “Household Energy Efficiency Statistics” today highlights a problem with the current programme of installing energy efficiency measures in homes. Cavity wall and loft insulation funded by energy companies under the ECO scheme are down 85% since their peak in 2014. The problem was largely caused by the failure of the […]
BaNES Communities, Transport, and Environment Scrutiny panel have set up a Task and Finish group to investigate Adam Reynolds’ Day Parking Zone proposal. This proposes setting up Resident Friendly Day Parking Zones across the WHOLE of the city to tackle air pollution and congestion, generating much needed revenue for the council, enabling investment in public […]
There is a lot of activity in terms of transport policy in Bath currently. Transport seems to be one of the council’s main policy priorities; with separate parking, coach parking and air pollution consultations taking place, the release of a ‘prospectus’ which forms the economic justification for an A36-A46 link road, ANPR monitoring of traffic […]
Could Bath and North East Somerset replicate Waltham Forest‘s electric tricycle service and reduce the pollution from local deliveries both to businesses in the city centre and to local residents? Similar services already run in Cambridge, Glasgow and Norwich by a company called Outspoken, and could be replicated in Bath. Deliveroo has already extremely successfully […]
Since B&NES Placemaking Plan was adopted in July policy SCR1 which requires large developments (10 or more homes) to deliver properties which out-perform minimum Building Regulation carbon emissions by 10% delivered by renewable technologies, we have been objecting to planning applications which don’t meet this policy. Almost all of the planning applications made by developers […]
Transition Bath and Bath: Hacked‘s innovative web based Schools Energy Education Programme Energy Sparks has been launched with a number of local schools taking part. The programme based around an innovative web platform we have developed not only displays 1/2 hourly electricity and gas meter data which allows pupils to monitor their progress in reducing […]
As part of Bath and North East Somerset’s plans for the future, part of the ‘Bath Local Plan 2016-2036′, in a draft consultation document B&NES council are proposing the development of a 1500 zero carbon homes in North Keynsham. This is an interesting precedence in that Transition Bath have been pushing for zero carbon housing for […]