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)

Milsom Quarter

About this page

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

Explore this site allocation

Select a section below to read more.

Site background

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.

Options for the new Local Plan

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