Bid to open grooming salon in historic Bath park rejected

Plans for a dog grooming salon in Alice Park in Lambridge, Bath, have been rejected. 

Alice Park opened in 1938 as a place for children to play and take part in sports. It was given to Bath by Herbert Montgomery MacVicar of Batheaston in memory of his wife, Frances Alice Harriet.

Alice Park was gifted to the city of Bath as a public park by Herbert Montgomery MacVicar and in 2016 the Alice Park Trust was established to oversee its running.

Chair of the Alice Park Trust subcommittee, Joanna Wright, tsaid: “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.”