Plans to open a canine grooming parlour in a Bath park have been turned down.
The committee meets within the park | Photo © John Wimperis
An area resident had hoped to build a hut in Alice Park in Lambridge to run a canine grooming business, however the plans had been scrubbed once they went earlier than the committee which runs the positioning.
Often seen as a public park, Alice Park is technically personal land held in belief by Bath and North East Somerset Council.
Local councillor Joanna Wright chairs the Alice Park Trust subcommittee which runs the park.
She advised a gathering of the subcommittee on twenty eighth September: “My view of the park is we got it in belief for young youngsters to play in.
“We weren’t given it as a public park in place for dogs to go and be groomed in. So at the moment, I don’t think we are in a place to support this request.”
Councillor Ollie Henman questioned whether or not it might align with the park’s charitable aims, and councillor Deborah Collins questioned how park customers would really feel about it.
The subcommittee, which was assembly within the park itself, below the group backyard’s oak barn, voted towards allowing the canine grooming hut to be constructed.
Alice Park opened in 1938 as a spot for youngsters to play and participate in sports activities.
It was given to Bath by Herbert Montgomery MacVicar of Batheaston in reminiscence of his spouse, Frances Alice Harriet, who had died two years prior.
John Wimperis, Local Democracy Reporter
