Bath & North East Somerset Council and the Environment Agency are working together to deliver a very important infrastructure project. It will provide flood defences for parts of the city centre that will also begin to build a positive relationship between Bath’s city centre and the River Avon.
The Bath Quays Waterside Project will put in essential flood mitigation and defence works to the north and south banks of the river between Churchill and Midland Bridge that address the negative impacts of climate change. These interventions will:
•Reduce existing and future flood risk to the Lower Bristol Road and 60 properties on the South side of the river through the provision of new flood defences.
•Provide the flood mitigation to enable the redevelopment of the Bath Quays and Manvers Street sites in order to realise the Council’s Bath City Riverside Enterprise Area Masterplan - the Innovation Quays project and deliver new jobs and homes.
