Quotations are reproduced from back page comments in the returned questionnaires. Drawings have been produced especially for this report by Julie Spiller, John Arscott and Hendryk Stopczynski to whom we give our thanks. The cricketing drawing was produced originally for Marldon Cricket Club by Pete Rennells.

Thanks are expressed by the Appraisal Group also to those additional helpers who distributed and collected the questionnaires and distributed this report.

This report has been delivered to your home. If you have any queries, or need assistance, please make contact with any member of the Appraisal Group listed below:

It was an attempt to find out the views of as many as possible of the people who live in Marldon Parish (including Compton, Marldon, Westerland, outlying homes and farms). Your views were requested on the future needs and developments of Marldon. The information will be of value to the Parish Council in all its future deliberations for quite a few years to come.

It was not just Marldon! 41 villages in Devon have also carried out appraisals (21 have already reported). The information gathered has been very useful to their Parish Councils and other local organisations when planning for their futures.

With substantial help from the Community Council of Devon (CCD), a sub-committee of the Village Hall Council (including Parish Councillors and members of the Village Hall Council) drew up the questionnaire which was delivered to every household in Marldon. Completed questionnaires were collected (mostly in sealed envelopes) and passed to the CCD for analysis. The findings are now summarised in this report and could form the basis of Community Action Plans, with recommendations for future action based upon what you want. Every household should have received a copy of this report.

All replies were anonymous and confidential. The replies were returned directly to CCD. Some questions asked if you would like to take part in projects or activities. To preserve your anonymity and to allow you to register interest a tear-off form was provided at the back of the questionnaire. Having been summarised by CCD the replies have been returned to the Appraisal Group. As they are unsigned and now in mixed order, individual replies are still confidential but specific comments and/or suggestions are available to the Appraisal Group. Some comments are included in blue italics within the Report. Recommendations are in red italics.