The Recreation Ground (known locally as the Rec) sits in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bath. In 1922 the land was gifted in perpetuity to the people of Bath. A restrictive covenant protects the land as an open space for sport and outdoor activities.

The Covenant is all that stands between the unique town and country views enjoyed by 5,000,000 visitors every year and and the developer‘s enormous stadium containing shops, restaurants and a 700 space car park. We need funds for a court battle to protect the city from the developer.

The UNESCO award states

All this is at risk from an enormous modern building more suited to a New Town than dumped between Georgian Grade One listed buildings. Sadly money talks and loads the scales of English justice against ordinary people. We need help to fight the developer in court. Without your help, unopposed in court, the Recreation Ground will be lost.

it would be a crying shame if the Recreation Ground was lost to us all as a result of the apathy of Bath people. The saga has been been playing for years but we are now rapidly approaching the endgame.

Any surplus funds will be donated to Women’s Aid and Bath’s own Julian House for the homeless.

If you would like to keep this view

rather than this view

Please help stop a multimillionaire developer grabbing Bath citizens’charitable land.

For more information about the the above, please visit www.friendsofbathrec.org