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Would-be British design students and Sir James Dyson are surely waiting with bated breath for a local UK council's decision: the Bath and North Somerset Council was supposed to vote yesterday on the application from the Dyson School for Design Innovation, scheduled to be built in Bath and opened later this year.

The BNS Council has been objecting to the school--ironically, on "aesthetic grounds." An earlier planning report claimed "The height, scale, design and materials are harmful to the setting of listed buildings and to the character and setting of adjacent conservation and World Heritage sites." Though the final decision was to be made yesterday, no word was available at press time.

Dyson has been planning to open the school since at least '06, to get young Britons excited about design and make the UK into a more competitive design force. If the council rules against him, we doubt the setback will phase him; this is a man who went through a reported 5,126 iterations of a vacuum cleaner before perfecting the 5,127th, which then made him one of the richest men in the world. We'll keep you posted.

via design week uk