Our Town, Our Saxonvale

Judicial Review

Acorn Property Group have lost planning consent for the Saxonvale Site in Frome!

Judicial Review Challenge Result: Judge ruled that the employment space policy was misrepresented during the determination of Acorn’s planning permission, for the Saxonvale site in Frome.

The Mayday Way

As we continue our Saxonvale story and step into the next phase of the process, we ran two public events at Frome Town Hall and online.

The events shared a deeper insight into our approach and the outcomes we aim to achieve for our community in Saxonvale. Visit ‘Community Owned’ Vision and ‘Community Design’ Vision to view full information and recordings of the events.

The Mayday Masterplan

The UK’s first community-led master plan

What’s really going on in Saxonvale?

Ex BBC News reporter and Frome local, Freddie Rostand produced a short investigative film on what’s really going on at Saxonvale, and what it might mean for the future of Frome.

The film is a personal view of which of the two development options for Saxonvale in Frome would best serve the town

Add your name to our declaration and support the future of Frome!

There are two masterplans for the regeneration of Saxonvale in Frome

Frome and Mendip District Council will now be able to decide between the plans of Acorn Property Group or Mayday Saxonvale.

In comparison – Acorn’s Plan, rejected by Frome, imposed on Frome

Acorn Property Group’s commercially driven plan, is dominated by high density apartment blocks, roads and car parking. The plan fails to deliver on Mendip District Council’s own policy on the commercial space Frome needs and affordable housing requirements.

We absolutely believe in the Saxonvale project in principle. But 300 dwellings is too many, and too greedy. Mendip and their developers are determined to maximise profit on an unsustainable scheme that doesn’t meet Frome’s economic or social needs. It will squander this once-and-only opportunity to create a vibrant town centre extension and cause irreversible damage to the town’s unique character

Richard Swann, Frome Civic Society

Individual Rejections

498

(Two in support)

Rejected by Frome’s Statutory Consultees twice
(once in January and again in September):

• Frome Town Council
• Frome & District Chamber of Commerce
• Frome & District Civic Society