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Packsaddle’s fields feature in national CPRE campaign ‘On The Edge’
Launch of ‘On The Edge’ campaign by CPRE The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has recently launched a new national campaign, ‘On the Edge’, which recognises the importance of the countryside on the edges of the nation’s towns and cities. It aims to help protect and regenerate the countryside around every town and city…
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Join National Day Of Community Action For Nature, Parks and Green Spaces At Packsaddle Community Fields
People for Packsaddle, a local community action group with a substantial and growing number of passionate supporters, is joining a national community day of action for nature, parks and green spaces on 18th April. Over 100 groups from across the country are coming together ’virtually’ in a show of unity for the natural world. These…
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Another attempt at getting answers from Somerset Council
We are disappointed not to have received any response to our email to Councillor Mike Rigby, Lead Member for Economic Development Planning and Assets at Somerset Council, sent on 7th March. Our email contained some important questions regarding the decision to close Packsaddle Community Fields. It is simply not acceptable for Somerset Council to ignore…
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Frome Town Council meeting – 25th March 2026
John Kulasek, Interim Head of Property and Chris Hall, Executive Director for Community, Place and Economy at Somerset Council comment on the erection of fencing at Packsaddle Community Fields The leader of Frome Town Council, Fiona Barrows, recently invited Councillor Mike Rigby, the Somerset Councillor with political responsibility for fencing off Packsaddle Community Fields (after…
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People for Packsaddle statement – 18th March 2026
Our latest update Since Somerset Council erected fencing around Packsaddle Community Fields we’ve received nothing but overwhelming support, from our local community, people across Frome and organisations across Somerset. Thank you to our MP Anna Sabine, Somerset Councillors Adam Boyden, Dawn Denton and Martin Dimery, Frome Town Council, CPRE Somerset and the Frome Area Green…
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Our position on the fence and access to the fields
We understand that people are incredibly upset and angry, and that a space of immeasurable value has been ripped from our community in sudden circumstances. Somerset Council’s actions have been reprehensible and unforgivable, and it should be ashamed. People for Packsaddle are working tirelessly on behalf of this community to re-open the Fields. Meanwhile, we…
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Please sign the ‘stop the fencing’ petition
Can you help us? We need 5000 signatures on the petition which aims to get the fencing around the fields removed. 5000 signatures triggers a debate at the Somerset Council Full Council meeting. No decisions about these fields (apart from the planning application) have ever been debated at a Council meeting. The decision to sell,…
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50 years of public access to the fields blocked by fences
For now, because our fight continues! Early this morning (10th March 2026), the fences arrived at Packsaddle Community Fields. Ugly, metal Heras fencing. And lots of it! The iron wall was soon and our local community, who have enjoyed the fields unchallenged for 50 years, were soon fenced out of them. Thank you to everyone…
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Do Somerset Council understand their obligations under the Option Agreement they signed with LiveWest?
In the correspondence People For Packsaddle received about removing access to the permissive path and fencing off the public right of way at Packsaddle Community Fields, John Kulasek (Interim Head of Property at Somerset Council) states: “… either this Council fulfils its obligations within the contract with the developer and fully supports and aids the…
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Statement in response to decision to remove access to the fields
People for Packsaddle Response to the Somerset Council decision to remove public access to permissive path at Packsaddle Fields and to fence off the public right of way People For Packsaddle, and the community it represents, is angry and disappointed in the decision made by Somerset Council to remove public access to Packsaddle Community Fields,…
