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Local Facilities Millennium Housing
Issue: - Church and Village Hall
The Church
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It was reassuring to see that 77 % of respondents felt that the Church(es) was / were important - but as historic buildings! 42 % felt our churches were important for Sunday worship, whereas 65 % felt the Church was important for baptisms, weddings and funerals. We have already "lost" St. Nonna's (Bradstone) through under-utilisation. Just over 50 % were already helping with the Church, or prepared to help, but almost 50 % were not interested in helping with inside, outside or fund-raising. This illustrates the dilemma the Church is already facing: people don't seem to have the time to give, anymore, but they'd like the warm feeling that the Church is there, just in case. |
Majority want the Church, but don't want to be involved.
Diversify use of Church buildings? |
Village Hall
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The Village Hall was judged to be adequate by 65 %, although 83 % use it less frequently than once a month - or never. |
Village hall satisfactory |
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Community Policeman
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92 respondents (71 %) would like to see more of their Community Policeman. |
"We see him and the service provided seems fine." |
Sewerage
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The Committee was interested to note that 6.3% of respondents had no answer to the question "What sewage disposal system do you use"! It was also interesting to note that, despite the almost total reliance on private drainage (67% have septic tanks), 61% do not want to put in mains drainage. 11% were interested, but only if the cost was less than £5,000 apiece. |
Little support for mains drainage |
"Two's company!"
(It's in Meadwell, if you're interested.)
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Options for marking the Millennium:
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126 people responded to the Millennium question. 92 wanted to mark it in some way, but only 48 answered the options list. The other 44 didn't even answer "other" - so we are unsure of what they might have preferred. The most popular option was to create a "Parish Album", containing photographs of houses in the community. The second most popular option was to plant trees, and the third most popular option was to have a Celebration, similar to the one we had to mark V.E. day "Smile, please!"
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Millennium Parish Album? ------------------------- "Waste of money" |
Chart: Millennium Preference
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Accommodation: analysis of needs
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13 people (21 %) needed alternative accommodation. 77 % did not. Three of the replies were "urgent", but the majority of people anticipated a need within the next ten years. The majority of respondents seemed to feel that current housing levels in the community were adequate, whilst airing a concern that the shortage of "first time buyer" housing might discourage younger people from staying in, or moving into the community. "One better than a tent!" |
New housing ------------------------
"....no suitable, affordable, housing in the local community [for young families]." |
Chart: Type of housing needed
Issue: - General
Diana, Princess of Wales: Commemoration
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131 responded to this question. 65 % would like to mark the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. 24 % did not want to, and 12 % had no opinion.
The Parish Council has put aside some money to provide bulbs to be planted in the community, which will provide an annual memorial. |
"Do something that is more permanent." "Plant Diana roses" "Contribute [instead] to one of Diana's favourite charities" |
Meadwell and Felldownhead
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Most people had no opinion as to whether or not Meadwell and Felldownhead were under-represented. Of those that expressed an opinion (sounds like a cat food advertisement!), 32 % (40 people) felt these hamlets were under-represented, whereas 26 % did not. |
"Meadwell is part of Kelly, and Felldownhead is part of Bradstone" |
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