For more information and analysis of the masterplan* from the promoters, LVA, please go to the Selwood ‘Garden Community’ project website. The outline planning application has now been registered with Mendip District Council. Stop SGC are working hard to review the application (nearly 150 documents in total) to help you make sense of the application. Please keep checking this page soon for more information.
Details on how to lodge an objection with Mendip District Council can be found here. We have prepared a series of documents to help you frame your objection to this application.
* It’s not really a masterplan. The application does not present any details of the layout, scale, appearance or landscaping of the development. The promoters plan to deliver a road network for the development, break the site into smaller plots and sell them off to the highest bidding developers.
For more information on the SGC proposals please follow the links below
The shocking statistics that show the true scale of these proposals can be found here. They include the loss of 157 acres to construction and the removal of over 2 miles of hedgerows.
Based on the consultation proposal, we brought together the major reasons why we believe the SGC proposal to be completely unsuitable for Frome and the surrounding area, more information can be found here.
We have compiled an explainer to help you make sense of the different development proposals crammed into the Little Keyford area.
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