Plans to open a dog grooming parlour in a Bath park have been turned down.
The committee meets in the park | Photo © John Wimperis
A local resident had hoped to build a hut in Alice Park in Lambridge to run a dog grooming business, but the plans were scrubbed when they went before the committee which runs the site.
Often seen as a public park, Alice Park is technically private land held in trust by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
Local councillor Joanna Wright chairs the Alice Park Trust subcommittee which runs the park.
She told a meeting of the subcommittee on 28th September: “My view of the park is we were given it in trust for young children to play in.
“We weren’t given it as a public park in place for dogs to go and be groomed in. So at the moment, I don’t think we are in a place to support this request.”
Councillor Ollie Henman questioned whether it would align with the park’s charitable objectives, and councillor Deborah Collins questioned how park users would feel about it.
The subcommittee, which was meeting in the park itself, under the community garden’s oak barn, voted against permitting the dog grooming hut to be built.
Alice Park opened in 1938 as a place for children to play and take part in sports.
It was given to Bath by Herbert Montgomery MacVicar of Batheaston in memory of his wife, Frances Alice Harriet, who had died two years prior.
John Wimperis, Local Democracy Reporter
