Newsletter

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

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

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 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

The lack of new social housing in the town is a big issue and the possibility that the large developers might try to reduce the number of affordable homes once a proposal has been accepted is always something we fear. The town doesn’t really need more traditional four bedroom large homes. The Frome Housing Needs Survey published late last year pointed clearly to the need for more one and two bedroom homes.

The housing crisis rumbles on with ever increasing costs of private rents, a lack of available rental homes and very little new social housing being

We are dedicating much of this first newsletter of the year to the results of the 2021 Frome Housing Needs Survey which was organised by our

Winter is here and along with the incoming colder weather our thoughts turn to those who are struggling with housing in Frome. The need for

Autumn is definitely with us now and as the weather cools down the town continues to get busier. COVID restrictions have pretty much lifted with

Welcome to our September newsletter…We hope that you had a good August and managed to get a break, especially when the weather was being good