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General Info., Local Councils, Village Communications, Road Safety
Youth, Bus Service, Environment
Church & Village Hall, Local Facilities, Millennium, Housing
Recommendations
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 Introduction to the Report:

 

European funding was made available to rural communities for "community appraisals", and an initial public meeting was held on

11th September, 1997, to decide whether there were issues of common concern within our Community, and whether we wanted to take advantage of the Community Appraisal scheme.

We were all invited to note the issues that we thought were the most important in this community; a Committee was then set up to undertake the "Kelly with Bradstone Community Appraisal".

The report is structured in the same order as the issues raised at the Public Meeting on the 11th September, 1997, except that the first section is given over to general information, such as population breakdown.

Issues raised at the Public Meeting on the 11th September, 1997:

Local Councils

  • More of our Council Tax to come to the local Community
  • Parish Council does very well by itself

Village Communication

  • To have a decent notice board so we can read the notices
  • To have more news in The Messenger
  • Would like to know (& care) what's going on in Meadwell
  • Improved Communication about meetings

Road Safety

  • Why no sign for Meadwell, as Kelly is always mentioned?
  • The cross at Borough was talked about 25 years ago, but nothing was done.
  • Rural residential calming measures
  • Borough Cross Junction
  • Speed limit through Kelly and Meadwell
  • Road safety improvements - cut verges; village signs with "Please Drive Slowly"
  • Improvement of junction at Borough Cross
  • Cut back corner at junction
  • Stop heavy lorries on minor roads.

Youth

  • More youth projects
  • More children's facilities

Bus Service

  • Better bus service: at present only 1 per week. Ageing population could become increasingly dependant, and would encourage us to consider alternative to cars at times
  • More public transport
  • More local bus service
  • Better public transport to enable us to use own transport less

Environment

  • Cancel low-flying aircraft
  • Diversion of footpaths around farmyards
  • Creation of village pond at Bradstone, and more trees
  • Footpaths - they do not appear to correspond to the map

Village Hall and Church

  • What will happen after the Church at Bradstone is completed, e.g. churchyard, visitors, upkeep?
  • Retention of village hall

Local facilities

  • Mains sewage system
  • Mains sewage
  • Sub Post-Office
  • Local Police involvement - replacement for the P.C. we used to have

Millennium

  • What do we do?
  • Millennium?

Housing

  • Housing for Agricultural Workers

European funding opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

72 questionnaires were sent out. 64 of those returned were usable, which represents an 89 % response - which is regarded as excellent, and represents a sizeable mandate for action.

The full results are available, for anyone interested in more detail, from the Parish Clerk.

Limitations of our report:

The questionnaire covered many topics, and it is not possible to comment on all of them in this report. We have, therefore concentrated on the issues which seemed to have the most support or relevance.

Recommendations:

The recommendations of the Community Appraisal Committee are on page 5. These are the collective views of this Committee.

Questionnaires sent out and returned

25% response "statistically significant".

Thank-you:

The Committee of five volunteers has put a lot of hard work and effort into this appraisal. None of this would have been possible or meaningful without the help and assistance of:

Sue Murphy and team of the Community Council of Devon - who gave guidance and support.

Sarah Taragon - Rural Action Grants Administrator - who found some money to help with expenses

Funding partners: The Parish Council, West Devon Borough Council, Devon County Council and the European Regional Development Fund.

Gladys Bradshaw, Caroline Holland and Sally Hough - who helped us with the tedious task of distributing and collecting questionnaires

Our families - who lost us on many Tuesdays (except for Brian Gynn, who gained us!)

You: The tremendous response has meant that the views and statistics gained have significance and can be used with authority by the community and its representatives.

 

Note about margin text:

Items in the margin like this are "pointers" to the text.

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"Items like this are comments taken from the questionnaires returned. They do not necessarily represent the Committee's views, nor the view of the majority."

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