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Northlew Community Appraisal - 1997

Results of Appraisal

Please note that the following excludes all empty properties and the 62 households that did not respond to the questionnaire.

Who are we?

In total 234 males and 239 females over 11 years of age answered the questionnaire. 59% (103 households) live in the outer farming/rural areas of the Parish and 41% (72 households) live in the street lighting area.

Housing

In need of alternative accommodation
Only 8 households were in need of alternative accommodation - 2 required starter homes to buy, 2 required family homes to rent and 1 household wanted a family home to buy. The remaining three requir either Residential Care or Sheltered Housing.

What kind of housing does Northlew need?
Each person could answer more than one item of this question. Of the 222 people who responded to this question -

93 people (25%) think Northlew needs NO additional housing, 129 people (35%) think housing should be for local people, 89 peope (24%) think housing is needed for the young.

Type of housing needed

Adult Education/Training

67 people (18%) are definitely interested in taking vocational/adult training opportunities now or in the future. A further 76 people (21%) may be interested in the future.

Of the 67 people the most popular options are:

New technology/computing33 people (50%)
Skilled/craft related25 people (38%)
One day workshops15 people (23%)

50 people (78%) could attend training in Northlew, 57 people (89%) could get to Okehampton. To a lesser degree people could get to other major education centres in Devon. 11 people would require public transport to get to training centres, there may be opportunities for car-sharing. The remainder have private transport.

Health & Social Services

On the whole congratulations to the Health Services. Transport to various surgeries is a problem for 42 people who mention lack of personal transport. People experience difficulty at least occasionally in getting to the following services:
Doctors - 60 people
Hospital - 57 people
Dentist - 50 people
Chemist - 27 people
Optician - 25 people

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