Kingsmead Square: Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) consultation

Contents

• Introduction and policy background
• Scheme overview
• Purpose of the scheme
• What this scheme means for you
• View the ETRO documents
• Have your say
• Project timeline

Project timeline

The timeline below shows the project stages we will follow if this scheme is approved to go ahead. We will update this page when more details become available.

1. Public and business engagement on the High Street Renewal programme

   Completed Summer 2019

   Read the reports.

2. Phase 1 of the High Street Renewal programme

   Completed 2019 to 2021

   Phase 1 of the High Street Renewal programme to improve the public realm 2019 to 2021.

3. Council internal consultation

   Completed 2021

   The first stage of the consultation saw local Ward Members, Bath & North East Somerset Cabinet Members for Transport and the police approve the plans to consult on the ETRO.

   This stage has already been completed, and the ETRO will now go to public consultation.

4. Phase 2 of the High Street Renewal programme

   On target 2022 to 2026

   Phase 2 of the High Street Renewal programme to improve the public realm and support animation and events 2022 to 2026

5. Public consultation

   Active January 2022 to July 2022

   This consultation gives you an opportunity to state your support or objection to the ETRO for Kingsmead Square.

   We will publish a feedback report after this period of consultation.

6. ETRO extension decision

   On target Spring 2022

   Our Director of Place Management will make the decision about taking the scheme forward, based on the results of the public consultation.

   This will be the decision on what to do in the longer term. We have several options:

   • We can assess how well the access restriction and associated measures work for a longer period as an ongoing experiment, potentially up to a further 12 months
   • We could modify how the scheme works, based on feedback and make it permanent at this stage
   • We could make the scheme permanent, as it currently is
   • We could remove the scheme entirely

   The outcome and decision of the ETRO consultation will be published in Autumn 2022.

7. Possible further ETRO trial period

   On target Autumn/Winter 2022

   If the scheme goes ahead, we will implement the Kingsmead Square access restriction on an initial, 6 month trial basis.

8. Decision on making the access restriction permanent

   On target 2023

   We will make a decision on whether to make the Kingsmead Square access restriction permanent within 18 months.