🏘️ Developers seeking to build 200 homes on the South Stoke Plateau on the southern edge of Bath have lodged a fresh planning application, writes Local Democracy Reporter John Wimperis in the Bath Voice.
💷 Somerset care workers say rising fuel costs in the aftermath of the Iran war are impacting who they can visit, reports the BBC. Have fuel costs impacted care plans for someone you love? Let us know: bathbeenews@gmail.com.
🏘️ The Council’s planning committee has approved the first ‘backland’ development - a building behind an existing house - in Lansdown, despite objections, reports the Bath Echo.
🏘️ Two HMOs proposed in Twerton have re-ignited debate about the appropriate density of such housing in residential areas, reports the Bath Echo.
🌱 A University of Bath spinoff company making a plant-based microbead alternative has secured €4.11 million in funding to build a factory, reports the Bath Echo.
✈️ Bristol Airport’s expansion plans are now live. North Somerset residents can comment until June. Somerset Confidential scrutinises how many flights the airport wants to add.
🔔 St Stephen’s Church in Lansdown is being laser-scanned and 3D-modelled, as local students help identify ways to make the landmark more sustainable, according to the University of Bath press office.
☔️ Well… the allotment needed the rain forecast this bank holiday weekend.
⚡️Check out Sparkfest’s menu of performances across Bath this month.
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🧸 The American Museum has a fun exhibition of toy automata (mechanical moving machines!), reports the Bath & Wiltshire Parent.
📉 Half of the tourist destinations surveyed in Somerset say their visitor numbers are down as petrol prices bite, reports the BBC.
🕯️ Jolly’s mock tudor facade is to be replaced as repairs delay the shop’s re-opening, reports the Bath Echo.
🥊 A popular Bath boxing gym is relocating to a former engineering works on Bellotts Road, reports the Bath Echo.
🪜Travis Perkins has been barred from demolishing a building on its central Bath site because of its ‘historical significance’, reports the Bath Echo.
⚖️ A Bath law firm has entered administration, reports the Bath Echo.
🌅 The Rising Sun pub in Bathwick - devastated by fire - has been given permission to be converted into flats, reports the Bath Echo.
🚨 The Bath parents of a teenager have been ordered to compensate teachers after their child sent emails threatening violence, reports the Bath Echo.
😢 Two men who were racing on an A road before a head-on collision killed a woman near Bath have been sentenced to at least nine years each in prison, reports the BBC.
🚨 A Bath teenage girl has admitted assaulting another child and several police officers, reports the Bath Echo.
🚝 Platform 1 at Bath Spa Station is to be extended this year, reports the Bath Echo.
🚍 Buses will replace trains between Bath Spa and Chippenham or Westbury on 2–4 May, as work continues on the Box tunnel and the Grade II listed Sydney Gardens footbridge. The BBC has the latest train cancellations this weekend.
🐴 The Badminton horse trials May 6-10th are expected to cause further traffic congestion in the region, reports the BBC.
🛣️ A six-month road closure begins on Manvers Street from 26th May, as the Council carries out essential reconstruction work, with bus diversions and disruption expected, reports the Bath Echo.
👩🏽⚕️ The Bath Magazine chronicles the founder of Dorothy House and its renowned hospice care for patients in the region.
🪘The Diaspora festival celebrating cultural diversity is back in Bath and Bristol this month, reports the BBC. Check out the full programme here.
🧔🏻♂️ Meet the Somerset family undertaking a 14,000-mile motorcycle ride to raise awareness of men’s mental health, via the BBC.
🦆 Make way for ducklings! This brood of chicks took a stroll through Bath Spa University’s main Commons building. According to one commentator, they were studying for a ‘ducktorate’. 😂
🪺 And check out Bath Spa Uni’s live bird cam on YouTube, where four speckled eggs belonging to great tits wait to hatch:
📰 Bath had six newspapers in 1882: The Bath Chronicle, The Bath Evening Chronicle, The Bath Herald, The Bath & Cheltenham Gazette, The Bath Journal and the Bath Argus. Three of them printed daily. 🤩
🏓 Planning permission has previously been denied for two different Padel courts in Bath. Now, as Local Democracy Reporter John Wimperis explains, padel has secretly kicked Bath planners’ butts.
🚨 A serial shoplifter has been banned from the Julian Road Co-op, reports the Bath Echo.
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