JTP-designed scheme replaces plans for carehome on site of demolished Homebase store

Bath council has approved plans by HUB and Bridges Fund Management for a 450-home mixed use development on the site of a former Homebase store in the city.

Designed by JTP Architects, the Pines Way scheme will provide  275 build-to-rent homes and 179 co-living homes alongside 1,100 sq m of commercial space. 

It will also include more than 6,100 sq m of publicly accessible space including areas for play and improved pedestrian and cycle routes.

Councillors voted to approve scheme at a planning committee meeting yesterday morning.

The scheme will be located on the banks of the River Avon to the west of the city centre on a site of a Homebase store which closed in 2020 and demolished in 2023.

The site has another extant permission for a later living scheme, designed by London practice Marchese Partners for Senior Living Urban Limited.

The care home scheme was initially refused in 2021 before being approved later that year, although construction never started.

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