Our Town, Our Saxonvale

What’s really going on at 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 on which of the two development options for Saxonvale in Frome would best serve the town

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The Mayday Masterplan

The UK’s First Community Led Masterplan

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Our Design and Access Statement along with all other supporting documents can be viewed and downloaded via the Mendip Planning Portal or on our Planning Application Page.

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