Bath & North East Somerset Council and the Environment Agency are working together on a major infrastructure project which will provide flood defences for parts of Bath’s city centre and begin to build a positive relationship between the city centre and the River Avon.
The proposed Bath Quays Waterside Project will put in place essential flood mitigation and defence works to the north and south banks of the river between Churchill Bridge and Midland Bridge that address the negative impacts of climate change. Key elements of the project include:
- Reduce existing and future flood risk to the Lower Bristol Road and 60 properties on the South side of the river through the provision of new flood defences
- Provide the flood mitigation to enable the redevelopment of the Bath Quays and Manvers Street sites - the first step towards the realisation of the Bath City Riverside Enterprise Area and the Council’s ‘Innovation Quays’ project.
The Bath Quays Waterside Project will support the delivery of around 2,500 new homes, 650,000 square feet of new workspace and 9,000 new jobs for local people as part of the Bath City Riverside Enterprise Area. It will also overcome one of the major stumbling blocks to unlocking the potential of brownfield sites along the River Avon – the possibility of flooding.
The Council and Environment Agency are funding the essential works with a combination of Flood Defence Grant and Revolving Infrastructure funding made available by West of England Local Enterprise Partnership.
Ed Lockington, from the Environment Agency, said:
We welcome working in partnership on this important piece of work and are pleased to work with Bath & North East Somerset Council on this project, which will reduce existing flood risk in Bath and help provide exciting redevelopment opportunities.
Timescale for work to start on the scheme is 2015.
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