Developers behind a scheme aimed to give an abandoned Ministry of Defence site in the city a new lease of life say they want to hear from the local community.
Builders and planners involved in the redevelopment of the Warminster Road site have said they are starting with a "blank piece of paper" and want to know residents' ideas.
The 17-acre site has been bought by a consortium made up of Square Bay (Bath), Firmstone Development and Edward Ware Homes.
Markham Hanson, from Square Bay (Bath), said: "It will be primarily residential but we will expect it to include some form of care home."
Mr Hanson said at this stage they had no idea exactly how many homes they planned to build on the site.
Bath and North East Somerset Council's blueprint for the site envisages up to 100 homes as well as provision for 210 new primary school places.
Francis Firmstone, from Firmstone Development, said: "Before we start impressing ideas we are getting local ideas. We know the council, being under pressure with their Core Strategy review, will want to maximise the land but we want to get feedback before we start making plans."
An informal consultation session is being held at the site on Saturday, May 11 from 10am to 4pm for people to meet the developers and discuss their ideas for the land.
Writer and historian Kirsten Elliott, who lives near the site, said she had already contacted the developers with concerns about the height of the new homes and the impact their foundations might have on local geology.
She added that a popular footpath to the west of the site should be protected and traffic management from the new housing estate onto the A36 would need to be carefully considered.
She said: "This development will add another set of cars coming out into the road. I cannot see that there is an option for any other way in or out and so I think the whole traffic system is going to have to be re-thought, and traffic slowing measures brought in on the A36. Without it, the chances of an accident must increase."
In March the MoD announced all three of its Bath sites, Warminster Road, Foxhill and Ensleigh at Lansdown, had been sold to developers.
Social housing landlord, Curo, which has taken ownership of Foxhill, has also launched a consultation on what to do with the 42-acre site.
Civil servants at the three bases have transferred to the Abbey Wood complex in Bristol, breaking a link of more than 70 years between Bath and forces.
Both the Warminster Road and Foxhill sites were vacated at the end of March but the 50 staff who are still based at Ensleigh are expected to remain there until 2018.
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