HALWELL AND MORELEIGH APPRAISAL REPORT
1999
TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT
Not surprisingly, response to these questions was very high and it is clear from the summary below that certain issues need to be taken up at the Appraisal Meeting. On other points, views vary considerably, so we will need to see which ones have sufficient support for action.
Opinions, or perhaps priorities, may have altered slightly already because during the Appraisal process two of the much needed improvements have been put in place – the re-routing of some of the buses, and the installation of the speed restrictions.
That doesn’t mean there is no more to be done as far as these two issues are concerned but at least progress is being made.
Summary of Responses
We as residents, own 134 cars and 7 motorbikes and almost all are kept off the road.
Bus Service
41 people use the service and 6 people use it more than twenty times per month. For 10 people the bus is their major means of transport and for a further 33 people the bus is essential or important. Most of the suggestions for improvement concern the timetable but there was a wide range of comments.
Comments
‘Although we don’t use the service at the moment we feel it is a real necessity for many residents’
‘We need time to evaluate the new service’
Voluntary Car Service
19 people (12 from M, 7 from H) reckon they would use a voluntary car service and it is heartening to know that 19 people (12 from M, 7 from H) would be prepared to take part in a scheme.
Car Park
This doesn’t seem to be considered much of a priority. Responses were:
Siting the car parks is clearly seen as a problem, and there were nearly as many suggestions on this as there were people in favour.
Control of HGV’s
This is seen as a problem in both villages but, as many people pointed out, many of our businesses need to use lorries and the farms need to be served by lorries. After all, Halwell is on a main road: on the other hand there may be scope for curbing contractors serving civil engineering sites from using Moreleigh as a short cut.
Comments
‘We need to curb ‘rat runs’
‘Impossible to do without HGV’s – school buses, milk lorries, oil & gas supplies, businesses, farm supplies etc.’
Danger Spots
Definitely Yes! (91% M, 84%H) The two main concerns are the bend at Moreleigh Cross and the narrow bend outside the Old Vicarage in Halwell. The other concern raised by a number of respondents is the ‘nearly’ one-way status of Church Lane Halwell.
Verges & Hedges
On the whole maintenance is considered reasonable in both villages.
Signposting
Generally considered good in both villages.
YOUTH FACILITIES
Of those giving their opinion. In Moreleigh 57% (34) see facilities as poor, 25% reasonable, and only 8% as good, in Halwell 55% (24) see facilities as reasonable, 18% as poor, and only 5% as good.
Comments
‘They could be improved by providing a Village Hall’
Recommendation: Interested parties to get together and find out exactly what the youth of the two parishes want in the way of facilities.
YOUTH CLUB
50 people in Moreleigh and 47 in Halwell want this. 74% of those in both villages answering this question were in favour.
Comments
‘Despite the lack of facilities, it should be mentioned many good social functions are organised’
Recommendation: Parents and children interested, to get together and form a youth club.
Most people (55%) were in favour of meeting in local churches.
Recommendation: Parents to contact the local vicar (John Ough) to get permission to use local churches.
19 people volunteered to help. 12 from Moreleigh and 7 from Halwell.
Recommendation: Once the youth club is formed the appraisal committee to pass on the names of those volunteering to assist.
VILLAGE HALL
This has been overtaken by events, the Halwell and Moreleigh Parish Hall and Recreation Trust has been constituted and a management committee formed. Plans are in hand to build a Toilet/Kitchen/Meeting room block and this is on going.
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