Transition and the Origins of Relocalised Planning in Frome

The market town of Frome has a number of well-established groups with strong environmental and social objectives and there are a number of different entities that have played a key role in facilitating the town’s relocalised, independent identity which were summarised in the previous chapter along with key events that charted their success in the town. In this chapter, we explore how Frome acquired such agency to advance a relocalised agenda to understand the conditions that enabled some actors it the town to manifest certain ‘sustainable’ identities through the instruments of local government and its environmental active groups over time, and notably since the election of the non-party political group the Independents for Frome (IfF) to the town council in 2011.