Frome Town Council has given an update on how work is progressing in the centre of town, and dashed hopes that it will finish ahead of schedule.

In a question at the end of the on-line Council Matters meeting (July 15) the deputy mayor said he had heard that works were running six weeks faster than planned.

Not so - said Town Clerk Paul Wynne.

" Unfortunately they are not ahead of time, it is just that different works are being done at a different time. So they are working on something which was scheduled to happen in six weeks time and will go back."

The town centre works began on June 22 and are due to take 11 weeks to complete.

The Deputy Mayor Andy Wrintmore also said he had been talking to a trader along Palmer Street, who was pleased that there had been marshalls letting in traders through the barriers, but they had disappeared.

Paul Wynne told the meeting that there had been someone employed to allow access to Catherine Hill, but costs meant they were no longer there. " That was just for the first week. The cost was two and a half thousand pounds a week."

Earlier in the Town Matters meeting councillors were keen to stress that two sets of traffic works causing major disruption to the centre " Were not our fault". The council has said it appealed to Somerset County Council not to impose the second set, resurfacing along Welshmill Lane, while the Market Place works were on-going.

The council has been widely criticised for making travel across Frome hugely time consuming and will be putting out a press release to the Frome Times explaining their position.

You can read full details along with the second road works in the centre of Frome here:

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