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How this part of the Local Plan Options Document works
These site allocation 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
Options for the new Local Plan
We may suggest one or more possible approaches:
- Keeping existing plans for this site as they are
- Making small changes to our approach, which may allow for changes
- Replacing the approach with something that is substantially different
- Identifying factors or events which may affect this policy in the future
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
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5.32 The Milsom Quarter Masterplan is a major regeneration project led by the Council that proposes that the area becomes the fashion destination for Bath and the South West. It has identified the Old Post Office as the site for the new Fashion Museum, as a city centre cultural landmark, and the development of Broad Street Yards to support creative and entrepreneurial uses, complementing the fashion, interiors and homeware economies in the surrounding streets. It includes the Cattlemarket Site, which is an existing site allocation that was recently updated as part of the LPPU. The Milsom Quarter Masterplan also has an aspiration to introduce approximately 180 new homes through new build or through the repurposing of upper floors that are currently vacant.
Option A
No change proposed to the existing policy covering the Cattlemarket site
Option B
Introduce other policies or site allocations such as for Broad Street Yard