Frome Business Park, which is scheduled to be completed in early 2019, will provide space for up to 250 staff, and is set to offer new office opportunities for local and regional businesses keen to invest further in the town. David Nicholson, a director at DNA...

Frome Chamber of Commerce has sent in a submission on planning proposals for housing on a site at Braeside Works, on a site north of The Old Church School coming out onto Christchurch Street next to Pure Moves. Our main objection is that it is contrary to Mendip...

The Chamber welcomes the news that Mendip District Council has purchased certain parts of the Saxonvale site in Frome and we look forward to hearing more about its plans for developing the site. We believe the Saxonvale planning brief remains an excellent document to...

Each year the town council undertakes a town benchmarking survey to see how Frome measures up nationally. Overall, the latest survey is good news for the town, concluding 'Frome continues to be a successful and popular local service centre'. Other findings show that...

If you’re looking for new ways to make more money and find new customers the you might be interested in the Growth Support Programme. This is completely free to businesses in the Somerset area and the support on offer includes: An initial 3 hour face to face meeting...

We'd like to encourage local business people to put themselves forward to become Enterprise Advisors for our future workforce. The Careers & Enterprise Company, the Heart of the South West LEP and CSW Group are working with schools across Somerset, linking...

Car Parking Charges - report from Mendip District Counci'ls Cabinet meeting on 21 May 2018 The outcome is:- 1. Car parking charges will increase, and the Portfolio Holder has authority to increase them for the next three years. 2. Season ticket prices will increase...

Frome & District Chamber of Commerce are disappointed that MDC are still proposing to impose above inflation increases in car parking charges, even larger increases in season ticket prices, and to impose Sunday charges in Frome, and then to have further above...

Mendip District Council (MDC) is considering a review of its car parking strategy for the whole of Mendip which presently includes plans to increase hourly fees by RPI rounded up to the nearest 10p, and then again annually, put up the price of season tickets  by 60%...

Mendip District Council has done a review of its Car Parking Strategy. Although there is as yet no formal consultation on it we have a copy which includes the following:- MDC propose to increase car parking charges by the increase in CPI rounded up to the nearest 10p...