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Packsaddle fields granted Asset of Community Value status
We’re delighted to announce that Mendip District Council has decided to list Packsaddle Fields as an Asset of Community Value (ACV).
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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.
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Join our public meeting on 16th Nov
People for Packsaddle’s next public meeting will take place on Wednesday 16th November at 8pm, at Frome Town Football Club, 48 Berkley Rd, Frome BA11 2EH. This is a public meeting and anyone with an interest in saving Packsaddle Fields or wanting to find out more about what is happening is welcome to attend.
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Packsaddle fields sale decision contradicts Somerset’s ecological emergency pledge
Somerset County Council have declared an Ecological Emergency and Climate Emergency. Yet in their official decision report for the sale of Packsaddle fields, they state that there are no Climate Emergency & Sustainability Implications. How can this be the case?
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Our first public meeting
And what a turnout it was! 100 people joined us at Frome Rugby club on 15th September to talk about what Packsaddle Fields means to them and why we should oppose development on the fields. There was unanimous support from all 100 attendees that we should fight to save this historic wildlife haven that has…
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Packsaddle fields cleared
Over the summer, much of the vegetation on the Packsaddle fields was cleared, destroying a large swathe of natural habitat and causing significant damage to local wildlife. This is particularly suspicious given that the developers, Live West, were supposed to be conducting a ‘full season of ecology/wildlife surveys’ on the land which was to inform…
