Decision to recommend park and ride on Bathampton Meadows sparks furious reaction Bath & North East Somerset Council’s decision to choose between two sites for an east of Bath Park and Ride has provoked a furious political reaction. The Conservative-led cabinet will reveal its favoured site later this month. Both sites are on Bathampton Meadows,…
Today BANES Council held a secret Briefing with the Press. Excluding all interested parties, including representatives of local parish councils, the Bath Preservation Society and the Bathampton Meadows Alliance, they briefed the press on their preferred sites for an east of Bath Park and ride. Sadly they are pursuing sites B and F…
The Bathampton Meadows Alliance (BMA) has expressed grave concern about “serious omissions and shortcomings” in two reports that are due to be presented to the council’s cabinet next week, and that are supposed to help it come to a decision about the controversial park & ride proposed for the east of Bath. The council’s cross-party…
Campaigners against a 1,400 park and ride in eastern Bath have warned councillors that claims that patients at the RUH could use up to 500 parking spaces a day at a new Park and Ride to the east of the city, are not backed up by the evidence, and could be seen as an attempt to…
Campaigners against the proposed Park & Ride on Bathampton Meadows have welcomed the council’s solution for this year’s peak in Christmas traffic by providing an overspill facility for the first time on Lansdown.   In a written response to campaigner Christine Boyd, the cabinet member for transport, Councillor Tony Clarke revealed that the council has…
Campaigners against an eastern Park & Ride have said they would like to invite all candidates in the Abbey Ward by-election to come and see for themselves what is at stake if the council presses ahead with a plan to build a 1,400 Park & Ride on Bathampton Meadows. The invitation comes after Conservative candidate,…
Campaigners against a new Park & Ride to the east of Bath will hold secret Halloween film premieres this weekend across the city to launch a ‘video-nasty’, showing how some parking bays at Odd Down Park & Ride are so overgrown with weeds, they are unusable. This is despite an expansion of the site four…
Campaigners against a Park & Ride on Bathampton Meadows have evidence showing that the school run accounts for as much as a third of the morning traffic on the eastern London Road, which is far greater than the 10 percent that council officials have suggested. Campaigners say this proves yet again that a controversial multi-million…
Campaigners against a Park & Ride on Bathampton Meadows delivered a 12,000-signature petition to 10 Downing Street accompanied by Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is backing their campaign to get the proposal overturned. Campaigner and Batheaston resident Susanne Hagen, who handed the petition over to Number 10, said: “Many of the 12,000 people who took…