Dear Editor,
The photo used in your last issue showing the Riverside stand of Bath Rugby’s planning application is deceptive. Important information is missing in this mass of detail submitted for the proposed new stadium.
That particular West stand illustrates a problem with the whole application which will so change our lovely city, endangering its status as a World Heritage city.
How the new development could look | Image © Bath Rugby
A cross-section of that stand’s planned replacement shows its roof height at 32 meters, rising to 34 meters on the pitch side. But the height of the existing stand is not shown. Could this be because there is a massive increase in its height?
It looks like it will be about 50% higher, not only spoiling the view but dominating everything else.
Other Bath planning applications have ‘before and after’ diagrams. The lack of this for just this one feature raises suspicions that the whole planning application could be riddled with more cover-ups of problem areas.
Yours,
G.McLagan,
Bath
