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    £50m Bath residential scheme: enabling works and site risks for project teams

    November 24, 2025|

    Reviewed by Joe Ashwell

    £50m Bath residential scheme: enabling works and site risks for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Enabling works have started on Hartwell’s £50m regeneration of the 8.4-acre former Hartwells Garage site on Newbridge Road, Bath, including removal of the old damaged forecourt canopy and detailed pre-construction surveys. The Allford Hall Monaghan Morris-designed scheme will deliver 104 apartments, a 186-bed student block, new A1/A3 commercial units and landscaped public realm on the brownfield plot, vacated in 2019. Hartwell is working with Walsingham Planning, Ridge, Stantec, IMA Transport Planning and Aspect Ecology, with the main contractor still to be appointed.

    Technical Brief

    • Hartwell is leading as developer, with main contractor procurement still pending, affecting detailed construction sequencing decisions.

    Our Take

    Hartwell’s Bath scheme sits alongside its £100m Phoenix Yard redevelopment in Birmingham, signalling that the Hartwell group is building a repeatable urban regeneration pipeline on brownfield sites across multiple UK cities.

    Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Ridge appear on both the Bath and Phoenix Yard projects, suggesting Hartwell is standardising a core design and engineering team, which typically shortens pre-construction learning curves and de-risks planning on complex infill sites.

    Within our infrastructure coverage, few schemes combine general apartments with a defined student bed component at this scale in a historic city like Bath, which is likely to sharpen local scrutiny on transport, ecology and heritage impacts during enabling and groundworks.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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