With just weeks to go until Bath and North East Somerset Council meets to debate the next financial year’s budget, community leaders in Peasedown St John have released details of funding requests they’ve made for their community.
Councillors Karen Walker and Gavin Heathcote (Independents) have been in discussions with council leaders since November in a bid to ensure Peasedown St John isn’t left out of any new spending plans.
Cllr Karen Walker and Cllr Gavin Heathcote said: “The role of any local councillor is to always put their community first. On a regular basis, we meet with residents, visit them in their homes, and discuss issues that matter to them.
After several months of Advice Surgeries and street surveys, we’ve put together a wish-list of items that residents have told us they’d like to see included in the 2026/27 B&NES Council Budget.”
The proposals, some of which were presented to the council’s leadership in November 2025, are:
• £50,000 for Bath Road pavements resurfacing
• £50,000 for pedestrian crossing on Orchard Way
• £7,000 for Dunkerton Hill/Ashgrove speed limit reduction
• £50,000 to resurface Old Keel’s Hill
• £60,000 to resurface Braysdown Lane (A367 by-pass to Braysdown Allotments)
• £30,000 to resurface Whitebrook Lane (Peasedown Cricket Club to Camerton Cattery)
• £15,000 for a new VAS speed reduction sign in Bath Road
The councillors added: “All of our proposals are based on requests that residents have put to us over the last year.
The additional funding for pavement improvements and road resurfacing have been two of the most frequent requests in recent years. The council needs to be doing more to allocate funding for these issues in rural areas, not just in the city of Bath.
Peasedown residents pay their Council Tax too and want to see the Local Authority distributing funds more fairly!”
The 2026/27 budget will be agreed by a meeting of the Full Council on Tuesday 24th February at the Guildhall in Bath.
