Improvements are planned for four local High Streets in Bath: Twerton High Street, Mount Road local centre, Moorland Road and Weston High Street. Project funding has been secured and improvements will continue to be delivered until 2025.
The following types of improvements are being made:
- 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
The total scheme budget of £453,000 which is made up of grant funding from the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) and B&NES Community Infrastructure Levy funding.