The film director and activist Ken Loach has claimed that his beloved home city of Bath is being ruined by unsympathetic developments designed to attract ever more visitors and argues that it is losing its sense of age and history.
Loach, who has lived in Bath since the 1970s, suggested that if the trend continues it could lose its Unesco world heritage status.
But Loach argues that the city had become too obsessed with attracting tourists: “It feels like the city centre is too geared to visitors.”
And he could not contemplate living far away from his football club, Bath FC, where he argues you find the real people of Bath.