When the Liberal Democrats took back control from the Conservatives of Bath and NE Somerset in 2011 we found plans in train to remove much Council operation from the Guildhall. Our approach was to scrap these ideas. The Guildhall is important to residents. Our plan is to rejuvenate the Guildhall and keep it as the political hub of the Council and grow its commercial uses.

Our first scheme was to develop part of one end into a co-working hub The Guild – very successfully and this weekend hosting its first Hackathon.

Our second scheme was to increase our revenue stream from the building and so we are looking at the basement area and are now working to find two high quality restaurants to operate fabulous river side operations. The two operations will have different architectural styles because of the layers of history we have here and this is creating a big buzz in the hospitality world as anyone who follows @BigHospitality tweets will have seen.