The Bristol Railway Archive

"The proposal is for a fence park side, as we do not possess enough land track side to safely erect a fence. While we can erect a fence clear of the listed wall, thus obviating the need for listed building consent, we would require landowner's consent."

(Email from Community Relations Manager ...

Yes, if it's in the curtilage of the building. However if LBC was required here then it would have been required for the fence that's been put up but no application was submitted for that.

The status of the wall doesn't matter. The fence is a separate, freestanding structure in Sydney Gardens, not part of the railway. There's no requirement for planning permission or Listed Building Consent, only the consent of B&NES as landowner.

I'm sorry about that. It's not my intention to be personal. I'm simply presenting the information I have to hand.

Re. the FOI request, you need to bear in mind that this dates from January 2011 so things may have changed (or possibly not since they were proposing a temporary wooden fence back then ...

Please explain how network rail have statutory powers on land that as you state belongs to BANES.

Under the Transport and Works Act 1992, I would imagine but I don't pretend to be an expert on rail legislation. However if you look at Cllr. Coombes email above you'll see he says, "While we have ...

It's in order to avoid making alterations to the wall that the preferred solution has been to erect a separate barrier set some way back from it.

It may be two years since the exhibition but that's how slowly things have been progressing in this dispute. The recent GWR listings are irrelevant - the fence is in Sydney Gardens, not on railway land. Listed Building Consent wasn't required for this fence and won't be for any other but it requires ...

Fence is in place for track lowering as explained in my pic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mao_zhou/7652092866/

Remember every structure through here is listed and part of two world heritage sites. Bath itself and the GWR railway. They cannot touch a thing except the track.

It's nothing to do ...