Shopping studies for Frome, is the town healthy?

As part of the planning process the District Council undertakes data monitoring and health checks for each of our Mendip towns. The latest healthchecks from December 2010 can be downloaded from their website HERE.

There are 3 documents and below are links for each document plus a few extracts pertinent to Frome. The 3 images are also from the reports & show pedestrian flows & supermarket statistics.

Volume 1 - Final report - DOWNLOAD

extract; Due to the numerous foodstore commitments, there is limited capacity to support any additional floorspace over the study period. There is unlikely to be any expenditure capacity to support new floorspace before 2021. There is a total requirement of 1,769 sq m net, although this requirement falls between 2021 and 2031. (whole Mendip area)

Volume 2 - town capacity estimations Dec 2010 - DOWNLOAD

Volume 3 - town health checks  - DOWNLOAD

NB from Vol 3 - in Frome 18% of people visited the town centre 2-3 days per week for food shopping, 16% of people visited the town centre once per week & 33% visited once or twice per month. 17% never did. See figure 4.3 (pic, above)

MDC say "The Mendip Local Development Framework is being developed from a range of evidence drawing in a range of information sources. Within the published documents, web links to relevant studies and sources are provided to enable readers to understand the justification for certain statements and policy approaches.

There are some areas where the council has had to undertake or commission its own work. The sections below offer links to these studies (or other arrangements by which you can obtain the information) and in each case a simple description is provided. "

Pics are; fig 4.2 Supermarket turnovers, fig 4.3 'Retention rates' for food shopping ('convenience'), fig 3.1 Pedestrian flows in Frome town centre