September 2023 Newsletter

Thank you for reading this newsletter – It’s important for us to have regular contact with our members and the wider Frome community. We’d like to hear what you think of our ideas and what we’re trying to do. We would certainly like to have you on board as we work towards creating genuinely affordable housing …

Intergenerational Housing – a solution for Frome?

One of the issues that Covid, or rather, the lockdowns brought into sharp relief was loneliness. If you lived alone during that period, or knew someone who did, isolation became a real problem and we have been talking about the metal health fallout of that ever since. If you are retired and live alone in …

High rents are a major contributor to poverty

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a leading social organisation campaigning against poverty, released its 2023 UK Poverty Report which found that one in 5 people (20%) in the UK are in poverty. This is equal to 13.4 million people with almost 4 million of those being children.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, JRF says that “Around half of private …

December 2022 Newsletter

December brings national news about raising housing standards in the rental sector, particularly socially rented housing and changes to the Levelling Up bill in respect to housing. We know that good quality homes are needed now more than ever and we are looking at ways of securing land to build for the community in perpetuity. …

Local Councillors develop closer ties with FACLT

Frome Area Community Land Trust (FACLT) held an information session in the council chamber for local councillors this month to deepen understanding of community land trusts. FACLT and its sister organisation Fair Housing for Frome have been working on plans to provide affordable housing for local people.  Roger Saunders, chair of FACLT said “With a …

The September newsletter from Frome Area Community Land Trust

We are back after our summer break with a new board and some fresh ideas. We held our AGM and elected 2 new board members and went on the road to find out more about how other CLTs achieved their successes. We were lucky enough to peek inside the award winning eco-home from SNUG Homes …

The July newsletter from Frome Area Community Land Trust

Frome Area Community Land Trust is absolutely all about ‘community’. We want to build affordable rental homes for local people in Frome. With a local lettings policy we can absolutely target those on the housing waiting list who are either Frome people or have significant connections to the town such as family ties etc. The …

The June newsletter from Frome Area Community Land Trust

Here at Frome Area Community Land Trust we have been in a reflective mood, looking back at the quieter winter months where we were all still struggling to come out of the pandemic whilst we concentrated on our ongoing search for suitable land. We discussed strategy and finance as well as how best to take FACLT forward with the challenges of the local housing market and the ever increasing rental property crisis.

The May newsletter from Frome Area Community Land Trust

The local elections are over and Frome has repeated what seems to be a tradition now of electing a fully independent town council with the Independents for Frome group taking all 17 seats. In the wider area, the planned demise of Mendip District Council saw elections to, what will become, the new unitary Somerset Council. Frome …