Bath locals had ‘no choice’ but to take council to court over LTN

Bath LTN: Council will not contest legal challenge to controversial scheme

Despite numerous written requests, meetings with councillors and council officials, FOI requests, and revisiting much more practical alternatives to reduce speeding in the area that came from the consultations, plans were pushed forwards unchanged. Consequently, we had no choice but to take the legal route, which gave us no pleasure. Bath and North East Somerset Council chose not contest to the legal challenge, and this ETRO scheme and two others that the council had chosen to link to it, in Catharine Place / River Street Mews and The Circus / Gay Street, have been quashed.

However we should be mindful that the council has announced its intention to resubmit, and we hope that it will engage with us to find a solution which is to the benefit of all and not just the few.