Speeding within Frome continues to be a priority. Frome Neighbourhood Team are regularly meeting with Community Speed Watch Schemes to assist with conducting high-visibility speeding checks throughout the villages around Frome. The aim is to deter speeding through the residential areas and to educate repeat offenders.

The Neighbourhood Team work closely with the Community Speed Watch groups who conduct regular speeding checks in their community.

How Community Speed Watch works:

A Community Speed Watch can be set up in any village, small town, or urban area, governed by either a 20, 30 or 40 miles per hour speed limit.

A team of local residents who are willing to volunteer a small amount of time each week are trained and issued with speed detection equipment to monitor speeds.

Vehicles observed speeding will be sent a warning letter along with advice to help change their driving behaviour.

Further action will be taken by the police against persistent and high end speed offenders as well as targeting individual locations.

Join Community Speed Watch:

To find out if there is a Community Speed Watch Scheme in your area, or request to set one up, email [email protected].

Join Community SpeedWatch
To find out if there is a Community SpeedWatch Scheme in your area, or request to set one up, email [email protected].

There have been multiple reports of off-road motorbikes that are behaving in an anti -social manner along the bridal paths in Asham Woods. The presence of these motorbikes has caused alarm and distress and especially to the Horse riders who use the area.

The land is private and owned by Hansen Quarries and therefore any unauthorised access on the land should be reported to them directly for trespassing purposes. However, when a vehicle is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress, or annoyance to members of the public, this contravenes Police Reform Act 2002 and should be reported to the police on 999 or 101 accordingly.

Officers continue to patrol the area to provide a visible presence with the aim to deter any off-road motorbikes that are behaving in an anti -social manner.