The Results

Facts About Us

1. The number of people living in the 177 households was 476 making an occupancy rate of 2.69. This compares with the rate for Devon of 2.39. There is an even population spread by age (a little large in the 40-59 age range) and gender, and the majority of respondents are of the economically active range.

2. Deficiencies. A significant minority of households (19) said they are in need of alternative accommodation. The biggest requirement (11 households) is for a family house to buy and 5 households said a family member had moved from the parish for lack of suitable housing.

3. Requirements and Development. Asked "..what type of housing is needed", most (136) said housing for local people, 90 mentioned younger people and 75 "..none required". This requirement should best be met by, converting redundant buildings (48% of cases 89 responses) and small groups of houses (33% of cases 61 responses); larger groups of houses was the least popular option (4% of cases). The balanced development of Lamerton was supported by anoverwhelming majority (208 replies) whilst 115 wished it remain as it is and 66 preferred it develop as a working community, all other options were supported by less than 9 responses each. There is a clear consensus here.

4. Development. The great majority of responses (298 people, 88%) think further building in the parish should be in a complementary style. On the whole people seem to feel that planning controls are reasonable, but there was concern expressed by over 45 people that controls are too lax for new commercial/agricultural building and new housing.

Education and Training

5. Primary Schooling
   a. The most popular reason for those sending their children to Lamerton School was '..part of village' (7 people 64%), people mentioned good educational opportunities and 5 each for a caring environment and small class size.
   b. The reasons for choosing another state school were evenly spread across the options (too small/lacks facilities etc.) the exception being "other reasons" 13 respondents (65% ofcases).

6. Learning Provision. Those expressing an opinion, on the whole, think provision for pre-school learning in Lamerton is reasonable/good. Unfortunately the reverse is true for adult learning where 97% (154) of those that expressed an opinion thought facilities poor and only 5 respondents considered them reasonable.

7. Training. Few report having vocational qualifications but 107 respondents were interested in future work based training, most being interested in new technology/IT (45 responses) and professional/managerial training (40 responses). The majority were able to travel to that training, the most accessible venues being Tavistock and Okehampton (97 and 55 responses respectively). There is a mix of reasons given by 24 respondents for not being able to take up opportunities, a lack ofjobs and disability being the principal ones.