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After-school activities:
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Most (65%) of respondents rely on children coming straight home after school; 31% relied on "In-school" care. There appeared to be a need in the community for "After-school clubs" - with 19 respondents expressing an interest, and 22 expressing an interest in "Youth Clubs". It would be useful to take this expression of interest further and discover whether it was the parents or children who wanted the extra facilities! Most found it difficult to take part in "after school" activities due to "no public transport", and / or the distance between home and school. |
Call for an "After-school Club"
Perhaps parents would like to run a youth club? |
Chart: Youth and Children's facilities required
Public and Private Transport:
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The primary reason why our community does not utilise Public Transport is "unavailability" (88 %), followed closely by "inconvenience" (80 %). |
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Although most don't use public transport because of its unavailability; there is funding available from various sources, which could be used to develop local transport. The spread of households in our area, and the sparseness of population would make a commercially viable system very unlikely. Private Transport Reliance on private transport is indicated by the fact that there were 111 motor cars, and 4 motor 'cycles in the community. 53% of households had 2 vehicles, and 3% of households had 4. Only one household had no personal transport.
Car-sharing Most people were not interested in a car-sharing scheme, but 25 people were. This probably illustrates the difficulty in being able to align work-patterns and schedules in a working environment that demands increasing flexibility. "The Kelly with Bradstone local taxi".
Vehicle usage Vehicle usage was primarily geared around leisure and shopping (shopping - 77%). The next significant category was business and travel-to-work transport. Looking at the figure for shopping, is there an opportunity for a travelling grocer to do more business - or is there enough interest to set up a community shop? |
Population too sparse for commercial 'bus service. -------------------------
"Cars are vital in this rural area."
-------------------------- Should a car-share scheme be set up? Neighbourly basis or formal? Any volunteeers?
Anyone interested in a community shop? |
Environment:
Village Pond
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59% supported the creation of Special Nature Reserves, and 68 % of those responses preferred the creation of a village pond at Bradstone.
"Fit and willing diggers required!"
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Special nature reserve - Bradstone. ------------------------- "Kelly fish ponds" "Creating special areas endorses destruction elsewhere." |
How to make Countryside better
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The majority of respondents to this question (56%) felt that re-routing footpaths away from farmyards was the best thing to do.
Three other options took joint second place (at 37%), namely: "Remove litter", "Stop Verge Damage" and "Signpost Paths". Perhaps a compromise could be reached by re-routing footpaths out of farmyards, and re-signing them? |
36.3 % said "keep verges tidy", and 36.3% said "let them grow"! ------------------------- "No desire to see more signs cluttering this beautiful countryside." |
Nuisances
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The responses to the question on what things people found to create, for them, the greatest nuisance, were very varied. 86% had no trouble with noisy neighbours, but 7% (4 responses) found the noise a nuisance and another 7 % found noisy neighbours difficult to tolerate. 53% found "low flying aircraft" a problem, and just under half that number found them "difficult to tolerate". 10% found traffic noise a problem - we suspect these respondents would be mainly from the Felldownhead hamlet. Despite the apparent current popular appeal of the "anti-hunting" lobby, 75% said hunting did not present a problem. "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable!" (O. Wilde)
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8 respondents have "noisy neighbours" Low-flying aircraft Hunting ------------------------- "untidy neighbours and untidy Meadwell village green area."
"Hunt followers a nuisance" |
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