Frome Town Council and Frome Area Community Land Trust (FACLT) are hosting a meeting this coming Tuesday, Tuesday 18thJuly at the Town Hall (and online via Zoom) to discuss the current housing issues in Frome and to raise awareness across the board.

Taking place from 7pm – 8:30pm, the session will start with a presentation from FACLT, who will give an overview of the current state of housing in Frome. It will include facts and figures including real-life examples and stories of housing difficulties that are faced in the town.

A panel discussion facilitated by Sophie Docker will follow. Confirmed panellists so far include Ali Barclay (a founder of Fair Housing for Frome and member of FACLT board), Steve Watson (Director of Middlemarch Community Led Housing CIC), Cllr Polly Lamb (previously ran a lettings company in Frome and is a town councillor), and Stephen Fowler (who has extensive experience in landlord and tenant law, led a property management business and provides in house consultancy for agents, housing charities, local authorities and associations).

Frome Area Community Land Trust (FACLT) and Fair Housing for Frome (FHfF) have officially united the two organisations, so that everything related to fair and affordable housing in Frome is managed by one organisation. The two boards found that increasingly they shared very similar aims and objectives, were working together on similar issues, and several directors were on both boards.

The united organisation will retain the organisational structure of a Community Land Trust and will still be called Frome Area CLT, but with a new strap line 'Creating fair housing for Frome'.