In this chapter

• Bath: Area overview
• The capacity of Bath
• Site options: Bath
• Site allocations in Bath and its environs
  • Milsom Quarter
  • Bath Central Riverside
  • Manvers Street
  • Bath Quays North
  • Bath Quays and Riverside Court
  • South Bank
  • Green Park Station West and Sydenham Park
  • Bath Riverside
  • Bath Press
  • Roseberry Place
  • Westmark Site, Windsor Bridge Road
  • Stable Yard Industrial Estate
  • Newbridge Riverside
  • Weston Island
  • Twerton Park
  • RUH (Royal United Hospitals), Weston
  • Hartwells Garage
  • Sion Hill
  • St Martin's
  • Sulis Down
  • Englishcombe Lane
  • Burlington Street
  • University of Bath
  • Sulis Club
  • Bath Spa University at Newton Park
  • West of Bath (potential site)
  • South of Burnett, next to A39 (potential site)

Bath Spa University at Newton Park

About this page

How this part of the Local Plan Options Document works

These potential site pages contain the following sections:

Site background

• A broad description of the site, with map if appropriate
• An overview of development proposed or already in progress
• Relevant aspects of planning policy for this site
• The history and status of any planning applications for this site

Discussion questions

We'll ask one or more broad questions which may cover:

• the suitability of the site for development
• the policy issues we would need to consider
• asking for suggestions for alternative approaches, sites or ideas

Policy context note

• Where decisions about this site may affect how we approach other sites (or vice versa), we will add a note to explain

Explore this potential site

Select a section below to read more.

Site background

5.86    Bath Spa’s Newton Park Campus sits within a sensitive historic context, including in the core of a Grade II* registered historic parkland ‘of outstanding interest’. This includes the following:

• A Scheduled Monument (St Loe’s Castle)
• Three Grade I listed buildings (The Manor House, Castle, and Castle Gatehouse)
• A Grade II* listed building (the Stables) and feature (the walls to the Italian Garden)
• A Grade II listed building (the Dairy).

The wider parkland beyond the campus also contains part of the Wansdyke Scheduled Monument and other listed buildings. 

5.87     Both the campus and the parkland in which it sits are within the Green Belt, where development potential is constrained. National policy makes it clear that development is inappropriate, unless it is either complete or partial redevelopment, or limited infilling, as long as it doesn’t have a greater impact on openness than the existing development.

5.88 Ecologically, the campus hosts a number of roosts for lesser horseshoe bats, which forage in the surrounding parkland.

5.89 No material changes are proposed to the existing policy. However, it will need to be reviewed and updated to reflect the latest terminology and correct references in the NPPF.

Discussion questions

Question 1: Retaining the existing policy at Bath Spa Newton Park Campus

Do you have any comments on this approach?