The city of Bath is renowned for its healing spas and history and attracts around 4 million visitors each year. City officials have approved plans as part of a £6 million transport scheme to build a new park and ride facility at Bathampton Meadows, which they argue will help stem the congestion and traffic problems Bath currently experiences.
Campaign group ‘Save Bathampton Meadows’, who began a petition in October 2008 to promote their cause and help get names on paper to show the council that the park and ride is not wanted. The site is thousands of years old, greenbelt and bordering the River Avon and sits in a valley, which campaigners say will make the development an eyesore and a blot on the landscape; unable to be missed from the viewing points all around the area. Save Bathampton Meadows’ spokeswoman Alison Millar said,
“This park and ride would spoil the meadows and be visible not only to hundreds of homes nearby but to people walking in the hills around it.”
