Share your thoughts about new facilities at Badgers Hill stadium

FROME Town Council, Frome Town Community Benefit Society and Frome Town Football Club are hosting a public consultation event at Badgers Hill stadium on Saturday 2nd March from 10am to 1pm.

The event offers an opportunity to view the designs for new changing rooms and multipurpose rooms on the site, ahead of the planning application submission in early March. The consultation event operates on a drop-in basis; anyone interested can come along and talk to the team at any time during the sessions.

The town council’s economic development and regeneration manager, Peter Wheelhouse said, “We look forward to sharing the designs for the new facilities at Badgers Hill. The improvements have been made possible by funding from the UK Government’s Community Ownership Fund and the Premier League Stadium Fund, following a successful bid by Frome Town Community Benefit Society, supported by Frome Town Council, and Frome Town Football Club.

“As you may know, the existing changing rooms at Badgers Hill have deteriorated with age and are not fit for purpose. A new single-storey building is proposed on a similar footprint that will provide new changing rooms, a physio room and classroom. These new facilities are designed to be used by the whole community, as part of ongoing work to improve the stadium as a community asset that benefits everyone. Join us at the clubhouse at Badgers Hill at any time between 10am and 1pm on Saturday 2nd March to share your thoughts.”

The not-for-profit Frome Town Community Benefit Society was formed in 2023 and is responsible for managing and improving the stadium as a thriving, multipurpose community asset, as well as working with Frome Town AFC and other members of the football community to maintain and develop the strong footballing tradition in Frome.

The feedback from the consultation will be taken into account as the appointed architects, PAAD Architects finalise the designs, ahead of the application to Somerset Council.