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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris

‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project

Protestors outside Frome town hall.
Protestors outside Frome town hall before Somerset council’s meeting to decide the future of the Saxonvale development site. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian

A bold bid by residents of a progressive town in the English West Country who raised almost £1m to create what could have been the UK’s largest community-led regeneration project is in tatters.

More than 1,000 residents of Frome in Somerset had clubbed together with the aim of building homes, workspaces, a riverside park and a lido on a brownfield area in their town centre.

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