Project overview

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Improvements are planned for four local High Streets in Bath; Twerton High Street, Mount Road local centre, Moorland Road and Weston High Street.

Funding has been secured and the scheme aims to be delivered between 2022 and 2024.

Softer interventions that improve the street environment and promote increased animation of public spaces are the focus of this scheme, rather than more traditional public realm schemes which are focused on hard landscaping interventions and resurfacing. This allows a short delivery programme and also provides the greatest impact with the value of funding available.

Proposed key additions

The following additions are proposed across the four high streets:

Street furniture
Improved cycle storage
Art installations
Seasonal dressing
Events
Pop-up shops/meanwhile uses
Sensory garden
In-ground planting including trees
Hanging baskets with seasonal iterations of planting
Shopfront improvement grants
Deep clean/maintenance
Marketing and branding exercises to support an improved ‘place identity’
Improved wayfinding

Funding

Concept designs were drawn up in early 2022, following local engagement in Autumn/Winter 2021. The concept designs were submitted as part of a successful funding bid to the West of England Combined Authority (WECA).

We (the council) were awarded £295,000 of West of England Combined Authority (WECA) ‘Love Our High Street’ funding. This funding will be combined with £158,000 funding from Community Infrastructure Levy and other sources, creating a Bath Local Centres scheme budget of £453,000. An additional allocation of £35,000 linked funding is provided as part of the Council’s Vacant Unit Action Project.

View the summary of findings from the earlier engagement, as well as the broader scheme business case, on the WECA website

Concept designs

We are asking for your views on the Twerton High Street and Mount Road concept designs at the moment, with a view to developing a detailed design following this input.