Category: Press
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Final fundraising push to contest planning appeal
A local Frome group is asking for the town’s support in its final battle to save thecherished Packsaddle Community Fields; a crucial green space for residents andwildlife, and a designated ‘Asset of Community Value’. Plans from developer, LiveWest, to build on Packsaddle Community Fields havefaced unfailing resistance from local residents, and have been resoundingly rejectedby…
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Local residents ready to buy local green space if planning application fails
People for Packsaddle is continuing a campaign to save a local green space from development. The former Somerset County Council made a decision to sell Packsaddle Fields to developers without entering into any consultation or tender process, in a move that People for Packsaddle believes was motivated by money and based on flawed assumptions and…
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Dismay at Somerset Council’s latest clearance at the fields
The arrival of cows at this much loved Asset of Community Value is another blow to residents and wildlife Somerset Council has once again caused bewilderment and anguish amongst residents near Packsaddle Community Fields, with more aggressive clearance work and, after a decades-long absence of cattle from the site, the introduction of a herd of…
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Gas Guzzling, Unaffordable Houses Proposed for Packsaddle Fields
Claims to be meeting the housing needs of Frome rubbished by planning proposals Housing company LiveWest has submitted planning permission to build 74 open-market houses on Packsaddle Community Fields, an 8 acre area of public green space on the northern boundary of Frome. If approved, the plans would permanently destroy the fields, which are a…
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Packsaddle campaign featured in the press
Our campaign to save Packsaddle fields has started to gather press coverage. We recently featured on the front page of the Frome Times as well as in Somerset Live and the Somerset County Gazette.
