A retrospective planning application has been submitted to Bath & North East Somerset Council for the commercial kitchen which supplies a city centre pub.
The Raven pub in Bath | Photo © Colin Peachey / Shutterstock.com
The application has been lodged this month by Raven Kitchen Ltd, which does the catering for Queen Street pub The Raven of Bath.
In 2023 a storage barn at Marksbury, near Bath, was converted into the pub’s commercial kitchen and food preparation area. It is in a complex of farm units and agricultural at Beech Tree Farm in Priston Lane.
Planning consultants for Raven Kitchen Ltd say the barn remains “almost exactly” as it was before the conversion: “There is very little difference to the external elevations and appearance to the building with the exception of a number of additions in terms of extraction vents, hoods, drainage pipes and gas bottles which are predominantly located to the rear of the building.”
They say: “The proposed change of use provides the landowner at Beech Tree Farm a valuable source of alternative income to support his farming business and enterprise.
“The commercial kitchen provides a source of employment for the local population as well as helping to support a well-established and long-term business located in central Bath.”
The planning reference is 25/04606/FUL, and the deadline for comments is 2nd January.
