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A residential-led mixed use development site at the former Bath Press premises has been brought to the market.

Savills will be handling the sale of the site located on Lower Bristol Road, to the west of the city centre, within the World Heritage Site boundary and Bath City Riverside Enterprise Area.

Extending to approximately 5.3 acres the site has resolution to grant planning permission for a development of 277 high-quality dwellings. The scheme proposes a mix of 247 apartments and 30 townhouses, alongside 16,200 sq. ft of ground floor office space fronting Lower Bristol Road.

The proposed development has been designed by architects, CDA, and landscape architects, Macgregor Smith. It incorporates historic elements of the site, which has been vacant since 2007.

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Bath Press was originally home to the Pitman Press, founded by Sir Isaac Pitman in 1889, who developed a system of shorthand and was an established editor, printer and publisher on an industrial scale.

The proposed apartments have been designed in conjunction with a build to rent operator, and encompass one, two and three bedroom units. The masterplan for the scheme also incorporates a further two roof terraces and three landscaped areas, including a playground. It also provides 122 car parking spaces and cycle stores with capacity for 596 spaces across the site.

Ben Taylor, a director in Savills development team in Bristol, sad: "We are delighted to be offering the former Bath Press site to the market. Sites of this nature and scale are exceptionally rare in Bath and, even more so, those with detailed planning permission."