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 …

Housing Crisis Declaration

We know that housing problems are national, even international, and that Frome shares issues like soaring rents, creeping AirBnB dominance and unchecked growth of empty second homes with many other towns. Could it be that residents of those locations can help us towards a solution?  Cities and rural areas alike are experiencing desperate housing needs …

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 …

A Review of Hashi Mohamed’s recently published book ‘A Home of One’s Own’

Review by Chris James Last evening, I finished reading ‘A Home of One’s Own’ by Hashi Mohamed and completing the read motivated me to write this review. The book addresses the rather depressing housing crisis that is affecting the country, as it has done for several decades – a crisis that has worsened in recent …

The June 2021 newsletter from Frome Area Community Land Trust

FACLT understands and supports members of our community who wish to protect precious green spaces, we are also here to support the many members of our community in need of genuinely affordable homes. Providing these homes is our core mission and FACLT’s board of directors and supporters have spent the past two years searching for …

Designing and building community led affordable housing

The FACLT board holds monthly development sessions. This month Steve Watson of Middlemarch led on ‘Designing and Building Community Led Affordable Housing’. Steve’s presentation can be found on the link below : Middlemarch is a local Community Interest Company which provides technical support to Community Housing Organisations. In Dorset and Somerset it provides ‘hub’ services …

Ten Reasons why a Community Land Trust is a great idea

For many years plucky volunteers in Frome have been struggling to get hold of land as a CLT and build homes – initially for a co-housing project and more recently, with the setting up of Frome Area CLT, to create genuinely affordable housing for any local people who are in serious housing need. As any …