Plans to turn the vacant TSB bank in Quiet Street in Bath into a pizza restaurant with flats above have fallen through.
The former TSB branch on Quiet Street in Bath | Image © Google Street View / Google 2025
The application, which had sought planning permission and listed building consent for No.10, was formally withdrawn last week.
The bank closed its doors in 2022.
The proposals submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council had included carrying out alterations to the Grade II* listed building to turn the ground floor and basement into space for a Fireaway restaurant and converting the first and second floors from empty offices into two two-bed flats.
Fireaway has more than 160 outlets in the UK, including in Kingswood town centre and on Gloucester Road in Bristol. It would have been the chain’s first restaurant in Bath.
The applicants said there was a poor market for offices, hence the proposed conversion of No.10.
The proposals also included renovations at the front to create separate commercial and residential entrances.
The application had stated that the proposed alterations would be “sympathetically” done to protect the building’s historic fabric and would enable it to be maintained and cared for, in contrast to the “likely continued dilapidation” if the premises remain unoccupied.
However, Historic England had raised concerns about the proposals on heritage grounds.
Historically No.10’s commercial use has included as auction rooms in the late 1800s.
In the 1960s it was owned by the South Western Gas Board and in 1979 planning permission was granted to change the ground and basement floors to retail use.
It was an antiques shop throughout the 1980s and in 1993 a planning application was approved for it to be used by the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society, who were later taken over by Lloyds TSB.
