How you can help

1. Request a Call In for a Public Inquiry

  Please encourage friends, family, neighbours and colleagues to submit letters requesting a public inquiry into Planning

  Application 09/00308/EREG03: Proposed Park and Ride Site, Batheaston By-Pass (Bathampton Meadows), Bath.  'Call in'

  letters can be posted or emailed to the Assistant Planning Manager at GOSW. Here are his contact details:

  David Brown

  Assistant Planning Manager (Dorset & West of England)

  GOSW Planning and Housing Delivery Team,

  2 Rivergate, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6EH

  Email: david.brown@gosw.gsi.gov.uk 

  We are happy for you to use our 'call in' letter as a template. Click here to open the letter in Word format. If you have

  time, please personalise the template. Letters should concentrate on why this application is of international and

  national importance.

  To view examples of 'call in' letters that have already been sent to GOSW, click on the links below:

2. Contact your local MP

  who can apply pressure on the Secretary of State for Communities

  Contact: Don Foster (Bath) or Dan Norris (Wansdyke)

  Call the Houses of Parliament on 020 7219 3000

  Send a letter to House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA, or (easiest) via website:

   www.parliament.uk/mpslordsandoffices/mps_and_lords/alms.cfm

3. Write directly to the Secretary of State

    listing your objections and reasons for them

  Contact: The Rt. Hon. John Denham MP

  Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

  Dept. for Communities and Local Government

  Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU

4. Lobby your B&NES Councillors

  registering your objections at local level

  Contact details for all B&NES Councillors can be found on the council’s website:

  www.bathnes.gov.uk/BathNES/councilanddemocracy

  Follow the link from the options at the foot of the page for the full list of councillors.

Get More Information

'How to Make a Difference' leaflet, June 2009 (in PDF format)

David Batho's 'Case for Refusal' presentation, 17th June 2009 (in PDF format). The file size is 3.6mb - for those without broadband, it may open quicker if you first save it to your pc.

Bathampton Meadow Scheme does not satisfy criteria for development of Green Belt