Frome School Street - Design Proposal

School Streets welcomes comments on co-design

Following the gathering of feedback from residents last year, Frome’s School Streets is inviting feedback on the project which aims to encourage active travel to school in order to lower congestion and air pollution and make the roads safer for those walking and cycling.

Frome Town Council has worked closely with local active travel charity Sustrans to involve the community in the design of the project around Trinity, Critchill, Oakfield and Avanti schools. The team of designers and engineers have created a co-design based on feedback collected from a series of public engagement sessions, surveys and meetings with those that live, work and use the area. 

Frome Town Council’s Resilience Manager, Nikki Brain, said: “Every step of this process has been informed by public consultation and we’re so grateful for all the feedback we have already received which has helped shape the draft design. We’re very excited to be working with the community to see this project become a reality!”

Residents will be able to view the draft co-design and share comments, whether online or in person, throughout April. Once comments and feedback have been considered, the design will be finalised and installed over the next 12 months then trialled for a period of 18 months. 

There will  be drop-in sessions at the Town Hall (Thursday 7^th April, 1-4pm; Wednesday 20^th April, 9am-12pm) or catch the team for a chat at the crossroads of Nunney Road and Oakfield Road (5^th and 26^th April, 3-4pm; 27^th April, 8-9.30am). 

If those dates don’t suit then residents are invited to pop into the Town Hall during opening hours to have a look at the display, it’ll be available between the 4^th April and 4^th May and visitors will be encouraged to leave their thoughts in a comment box. 

The Schools Streets project is funded by Somerset County Council as part of their Emergency Active Travel Fund. To find out more about the School Streets project, head to www.frometowncouncil.gov.uk/school-streets 

(Download proposal here)

(Download proposal here)

(Download proposal here)

(Download proposal here)

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If you have time, please review the proposal and answer a couple of questions on the next pages! 

Thank you.