Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use this page.
  1. Home

Creating sustainable communities: Journey to Net Zero

Strategy

Creating sustainable communities: Journey to Net Zero

This strategy sets out how we will create sustainable communities in Keynsham and Saltford, Hicks Gate, the Somer Valley, and Whitchurch Village

  • Published date: 11 July 2024
  • Last updated: 25 February 2025

Details

Our strategy for creating sustainable communities outlines a holistic approach to meeting the transport needs of those living, working, and visiting Bath and North East Somerset. It focuses on:

  • enhancing health and wellbeing
  • improving air quality
  • reducing the environmental impact of transport
  • combatting climate change
  • tackling congestion

The goal is to create better-connected, healthier, and genuinely sustainable communities by encouraging the use of sustainable modes of transport.

Our strategy for creating sustainable communities aims to provide more travel choices, investing in a transport network that meets current and future community needs. Our strategy outlines indicative short, medium, and long-term interventions. Implementing this transformative change will require significant investment and time.

The document below sets out our approach to creating sustainable communities across the district, specifically in:

  • Keynsham and Saltford
  • Hicks Gate
  • Somer Valley
  • Whitchurch Village

Documents

Last updated 25 February 2025

Active Travel Masterplan

Corporate Plan

Active Travel Masterplan

A comprehensive plan that sets out the existing and future network of active travel infrastructure required to enable and provide for sustainable and healthy forms of transport around our area. The plan is for all types of active travel, whether it is for commuting, leisure, business or everyday journeys, such as travelling to a local shop, school or doctor’s surgery.

  • Published date: 11 July 2024
  • Last updated: 11 March 2025

Details

By implementing infrastructure improvements and behaviour change campaigns, the measures in our Active Travel Masterplan will improve the safety, accessibility, and attractiveness of active travel options.

This in turn will contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions from vehicular transport, improvements to the health and wellbeing of residents, a fairer transport system and less congestion across Bath and North East Somerset.

Document attachments

  • The Active Travel Masterplan document is a very large document, so we have split it into seven sections, for easier viewing and downloading. View the Contents page of Part 1 for a quick overview of the contents of each section. 
  • Appendix A outlines the core zones where we aim to provide comprehensive facilities for walking, wheeling and cycling 
  • Appendix B shows travel networks throughout Bath and North East Somerset. 
  • The Consultation Final Report summarises feedback from a six-week public consultation process in summer 2024
  • Equalities Impact Assessment We publish EqIA documents for all major strategy and policy work we carry out.

 

 

Documents

Last updated 11 March 2025

Our Adult Social Care Self Assessment

Supporting document

Our Adult Social Care Self Assessment

Use this page to view our Adult Social Care Self Assessment document.

  • Published date: 05 July 2024
  • Last updated: 05 July 2024

Details

On 15 April 2024, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) notified us of their intention to inspect our Adult Social Care service. As part of this, the CQC asked us to provide information about how we deliver our Adult Social Care Services. This includes the details of our partner agencies and the submission of a Self-Assessment.

Read more about the CQC inspection of Adult Social Care (ASC) services

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of Health and Social Care in England. Their job is to inspect and rate care homes, hospitals, GP services and more, providing reports and recommendations and ensuring services are safe and effective. As a result of the 2022 Health and Care Act, the CQC restarted their inspection of Local Authorities in 2023, assessing how they are meeting their Adult Social Care duties, in particular how they perform their duties under the 2014 Care Act.

The inspection aims to assess how well Local Authorities are improving outcomes for people in their area and reducing health inequalities, prioritising, amongst other things, how well services work together and how well social care services perform overall.

Find out more about CQC inspections

Documents

Last updated 05 July 2024

Public Register of Contaminated Land

Public register

Public Register of Contaminated Land

Use this page to view our Contaminated Land Public Register.

  • Published date: 01 July 2024
  • Last updated: 02 July 2024

Details

This document lists the Public Register of Contaminated Land under Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

The locations and properties on the document have been determined as contaminated land by Bath and North East Somerset council. Some of these locations are listed as 'potentially contaminated'.

Documents

Last updated 02 July 2024

Contaminated Land Strategy

Strategy

Contaminated Land Strategy

Use this page to view our Contaminated Land Strategy.

  • Published date: 17 June 2024
  • Last updated: 17 June 2024

Details

By law, we must inspect land in our district to identify contaminated land and remove unacceptable risks to human health and the environment. Our Contaminated Land Strategy details how we will undertake inspections.

This document also outlines our progress in implementing this Strategy and our plans for future work.

Documents

Last updated 17 June 2024

Joint Local Access Forum (JLAF) meeting minutes

Report

Joint Local Access Forum (JLAF) meeting minutes

Use this page to view the meeting minutes and agendas for Joint Local Access Forum meetings.

  • Published date: 14 June 2024
  • Last updated: 27 October 2025

Details

Next meeting

The next Joint Local Access Forum meeting will be held on 6 November 2025 at the Community Space, Market Walk, Keynsham, BS31 1FS

The November Agenda and Background papers are available below.

Documents

Last updated 27 October 2025

Rights of Way Improvement Plan

Strategy

Rights of Way Improvement Plan

We have produced a Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP), in partnership with Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council.

  • Published date: 10 May 2024
  • Last updated: 10 May 2024

Details

The ROWIP sets out the current rights of way network and identifies strategic steps which the Councils intend to take to improve the network for the public.

Documents

Last updated 10 May 2024

Public Path Order Policy

Policy

Public Path Order Policy

Use this page to read our Public Path Order (PPO) Policy.

  • Published date: 07 May 2024
  • Last updated: 07 May 2024

Details

This policy sets out our discretionary powers for creating, diverting or extinguishing public rights of way through PPOs.

Documents

Last updated 07 May 2024

Voicebox Residents Survey 2023

Corporate Report

Voicebox Residents Survey 2023

Voicebox is a resident survey aimed at obtaining residents’ views on a range of topics to help shape and improve local services. This report provides the results for Voicebox 32 (2023).

  • Published date: 02 May 2024
  • Last updated: 02 May 2024

Documents

Last updated 02 May 2024

Subscribe to