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The one constant for Yeovil is scaffolding
Western Gazette
|January 22, 2026
ILAST visited Yeovil in May 2025, writes Phoebe Hobbs. Quizzing people on Middle Street about life in town, one charity collector turned to me and said: “People are a bit annoyed about this scaffolding being up so long!”
It is now January 2026, and the scaffolding is still up. This isn’t a dig: good things take time. But a lot of townsfolk are running low on patience.
‘The town is at a cross roads. Scratch that. The town is at Spaghetti Junction. A hundred different decisions seem to hang in the balance for Yeovil, from the promises of the £24 million Yeovil Refresh project to the looming threat of major employer and defence manufacturer Leonardo closing its local factory.
Just last November, over 3,000 Leonardo workers in Yeovil successfully fought for a 8% pay rise over two years after striking for better wages. On the flip side, they might lose their jobs and all those hard-won gains if the government doesn’t grant Leonardo a defence contract by March.
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