My heart lies in working for and with the local community to improve our world and make it a better place for everyone. Since first being elected to Mendip District Council in 2011, I have worked hard for 11 years (and on Frome Town Council for 18 months up to 2015) with and for the […]

The planning application to develop the last vacant plots on the south side of the Commerce Park for 61 small business units (B2/B8 units with ancillary office space, in nine buildings), and a single industrial building (in two 15,000 sq.ft. units) was deferred for up to three months at last week’s Mendip District Council Planning […]

Some 128 people have responded to our survey into the fly nuisance around Wessex Water’s Frome sewage treatment works over the last few weeks, after I and other councillors (Janine Nash and Damon Hooton) and local residents Lee & Michelle put leaflets and letters through hundreds of letterboxes in houses to the east, south and […]

As one of your local councillors it’s my job to keep people informed about local matters, so here is my latest newsletter. Help Ukrainian refugees: With the sickening Russian invasion of Ukraine continuing, so does the need to help refugees fleeing the war. Frome Town Council’s fundraising to help refugees in Frome’s twin town in […]

Adam Boyden and Christine Cockroft are standing to be the Somerset Councillors for Frome North and the villages at the election on May 5th, following the Government’s decision to create one unitary council for Somerset. Adam and Christine are committed, experienced campaigners with a record of action who will work hard to help and support […]

From Frome’s Lib Dem Mendip District councillors: It cannot have gone un-noticed that the Frome Liberal Democrat District Councillors are facing criticism and are coming under pressure to take a stance on the Mayday Saxonvale application. To the people of Frome. We were elected to represent your views. Please be assured that we are doing […]

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The draft Pedestrianisation Order for Dark Lane and a section of Berkley Lane to the north of Frome has been published for public consultation (see here). This follows the application by Mendip District Council to the Government in December for the Order to be made (see here) to reduce the excessive flytipping there for many […]

Local residents in the Packsaddle and Innox area have been notified by leaflet that Savills are giving a pre-application presentation of their proposals for a development of 71 new homes at Innox Hill (the ‘corner field’ adjacent to Packsaddle Way) in a meeting at 7pm on Thursday 31st March at Frome Town Hall. The presentation […]

Please help Ukrainian refugees: With the appalling and heartbreaking news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is difficult to know what any of us can do to help. But there is one way – Frome Town Council has been approached by Frome’s twin town Rabka-Zdrój in Poland, which is 150 miles from the Ukraine […]

Somerset County Council proposes to make a traffic Order under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to introduce 30mph speed limit extensions around the Bath Road, Oldford Hill, Cuckoo Lane and Gypsy Lane junction, and a 40mph speed limit to the north towards Oldford, in place of the current 60mph national speed limits there. This […]

The industrial units and a bungalow along Gypsy Lane opposite Sutton Close are to be demolished, and replaced with six houses and an office block, after a planning application was approved at Mendip’s Planning Board meeting on 16th March. The application (item DM04 on the agenda, planning ref. 2021/0652/FUL (Bonneyleigh View, Gypsy Lane, Frome, Somerset, […]

With the appalling and heartbreaking news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is difficult to know what any of us can do to help. But there is one way – Frome Town Council has been approached by Frome’s twin town Rabka-Zdrój in Poland, which is 150 miles from the Ukraine border. Rabka has already […]

Somerset County Council has decided to dispose of their land between Packsaddle Way and Leys Lane, in a Key Decision on 9th March. The site is known as the ‘school site’ as it was obtained in 1973 to build a new school. However, the need for a school in this part of Frome has never […]

We have been contacted by a few local residents in the areas near Frome sewage works who have had problems with large numbers of black midges and flies getting in their homes, causing a nuisance and disrupting everyday life. A previous article about this is several years old (see here) and it was in the […]

The Government has confirmed that the date for the next local elections will be Thursday 5th May 2022. Some 110 councillors will be elected across Somerset to form a new Somerset Council, doubling up the number of councillors in each existing Somerset County Council division. Those elected in May 2022 will serve as Somerset County Councillors for […]

Conserving and improving open spaces – transfers to Frome Town Council: As I wrote last month, Frome Town Council is asking Mendip District Council to transfer several open spaces currently owned by MDC into FTC ownership, before the formation of a new unitary Somerset Council, so that they can be protected and improved. This was […]

In September 2021, Mendip District Councillors approved a plan to apply to the Government for permission to pedestrianise Berkley Lane and Dark Lane in a bid to reduce flytipping to the north of Frome, after an initial local public consultation backed the idea (see here).   An Application for a Pedestrianisation Order at Berkley Lane […]

The Frome Collegians football club have submitted a planning application for the provision of visitor toilets and servery facilities, adjacent to their football pitch at the Old Showfield. The facilities are needed in order to comply with Football Association Ground Grading requirements for the level of football the senior team play at (the Wiltshire Senior […]

Dear All, Part of a local councillor’s role is to keep residents informed, so here is my latest newsletter on all things local… Covid disrupts recycling collections in Stonebridge: Somerset Waste Partnership is apologising for missing recycling and food waste collections this week in Stonebridge and other parts of Frome, as well as Beckington and […]