Scheme has failed to engage with public

Can I draw Kevin Guy’s attention to the failure of the ‘Liveable Neighbourhood Public Engagement Scheme’?

As a resident of Hansford Square, I and my near neighbours were unable to respond to the scheme.

We were only made aware of its existence and the Residents’ Parking Zone proposal by a flier on December 19, the day any responses had to be in, and it was our local Lib Dem councillors who distributed a flier by hand.

Unfortunately, none of us had the opportunity to respond. This is proof that the Liveable Neighbourhood Public Engagement Scheme is not engaging with the community it serves and is a waste of our money.

On visiting the website, I was unable to find anything about the proposed RPZ for Hansford Square and the language used was neither friendly or helpful.

If I had had the opportunity to respond I would have raised issues regarding the loss of green space, so here is my response to B&NES’S proposal, which I hope Kevin Guy will read and will feed back to the folk who came up with the idea of consultation by the Liveable Neighbourhood Public Engagement Scheme, which neither engages or is liveable.

An unforeseen consequence of imposing Residents’ Parking Zones is the loss of front gardens.

Rather than paying additional annual fees there is the option to drop kerbs to create additional parking spaces, change the character, beauty and appearance of a place and adding to heat in the city.

In the case of Hansford Square and neighbouring Fox Hill, there is the additional proposed loss of one of Bath’s green lungs, the old Entry Hill Golf Course, which currently helps mitigate pollution in the city.

Its replacement – by an industrial scale – floodlit bike park will cover the current green area.

It is so strange that the Lib Dems should be associated with so much destruction of green capital in the city of Bath and such an undemocratic way of working. Deborah Ireland Bath