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There was a lot of interest on the subject of the bus service, and many people made some interesting points.

In the question about the service, opinion varied. Overall, the people who answered these questions rated the quality of various aspects of the service as shown below:

	Good	Reasonable	Poor	No Opinion
Bus route	12	7	18	38
Bus timetable	8	5	28	37
Bus reliability	19	12	5	39
Bus cost	11	20	1	43

The division of opinion on the route probably depends on how easily you can reach the bus stop, and where you want to go. The timetable rates poor overall, reliability good, and costs reasonable.

People's opinions varied according to where they live in the parish. On all aspects, most of the people from the rural area held no opinion on the service - it's very difficult for them to reach a bus stop anyway! People in the village itself rated the route and timetable as poor - hardly surprising with only one bus a week actually in or out of the village centre - and reliability and cost as reasonable. People from Langsford, living much closer to the regular bus stop on the main road, generally rated all aspects of the service as good.

- The bus service from the main road is now very good. Would appreciate the bus coming into the centre of the village more than just once a week.

- If a more frequent bus service was available from the village to Tavistock, then perhaps a second car would become unnecessary In some households.

- ...the bus service should be improved (using a 12 seater instead of a 25 seater bus) and run more frequently

- Peter Tavy is one of the parishes that doesn't have the Community bus service - which would help anyone who doesn't have a car, as there is only one bus a week. No-one knows the trips that Ring & Ride do.

- The present [bus] service fails to provide for the "mature" in that it does no longer wait in the "Square" [in Tavistock] enabling shopping to be parked whilst further shops are visited, hence the now limited use by mature citizens. The timing of the current; service is NOT convenient.

Voluntary Transport and Car Sharing

There was quite a lot of interest in these ideas. 24 people who have cars would be prepared to join in a voluntary transport project, and 20 people would be willing to car share. It looks as though there's a strong base of good will on which a system could be built. This would be useful for those people who, when talking about access to medical services, said they had met difficulties in getting to them. And while we're on the subject of cars, here's some more of your comments...

- I feel that; there should be an area in the village that is able to be used for extra parking for resident's visitors and families.

Footpaths

The footpaths in Peter Tavy are all very well used. 51 people use footpaths daily, and 55 at least once a week. Together, this is 65% of all the people answering this section. Only 19 people replied that they never use the footpaths in the parish.

120 people said they had no difficulties using the footpaths, but 23 had had problems. The most frequent difficulty reported was paths overgrown with bushes and nettles. The next most common problems were: a lack of signposts, mud or water, and farm animals.

However, on the whole it does not seem there are major problems with the parish footpath network, and tidying them up a bit where needed is all that is required.

Some problems you reported:

- More use of existing bridleways, footpaths etc. should be encouraged.

- The restoration of the Millpond was good to see...good to be Involved in working on it. We hope the Parish Council will continue with its maintenance and we would be willing to help as required.

-...we would not like the Millpond to become a publicised feature of the village as we would hope it could remain mainly for the use of villagers.

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17 people said that their school-aged children were entitled to free school transport. Of these, 11 do use the school bus, the others travelling with their parents.

109 people hold educational qualifications, and 17 are in fulltime education. 53 (40% of the respondents) have a degree, diploma or HND, and who would doubt the qualification reported of "Ace mother"?!

77 of the 132 people who replied said that they felt adult learning provision in the area is good or reasonable. 48 people said that they were interested in work-based training. The most popular subject areas in which they would like to train were:

Most people felt that they could get to a training centre in Tavistock, with Plymouth and Princetown seen as the next easiest to reach.

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Peter Tavy people were asked about how they would like to see the housing stock in the parish develop over the next ten years. As can be seen below, most people favour the number of dwellings remaining about the same as it is now - although quite a few believe that it should be increased by up to ten - but comments suggest this should be accommodation for local young people.

"if there was any development, I think It should be 'starter homes' for young local people at affordable prices."

	People from Langsford	People from the Village	People from Rural Area	Totals
No. of Dwellings to Remain the Same	14	65	27	106
Upto 10 New Dwellings	6	16	13	35
Upto 20 New Dwellings	1	2	2	5
Up by Over 20 New Dwellings	0	3	1	4

People were asked to rate how satisfied they are about the operation of the planning system in the parish. 6 people said they were completely satisfied, 38 were quite satisfied, and 47 (30% of the replies) were dissatisfied.

67 people - 42% of the replies - had no opinion. This may be because they have not been involved with the planning system, and therefore do not know how it works.

-More regulation of destruction of hedges and trees. Very inadequate arrangements for preventing people felling trees etc. Farmers. Should not get ESA grants to do so.

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85 people (51% of those who replied) in the parish are employed or self-employed, 37 (22%) are wholly retired, 17 (10%) are in full time education, and 2% are unemployed. The remaining 15% are unwaged for a variety of reasons. 2 people reported that they are planning to become self-employed within the next 12 months.

63 people in the parish reported that they do voluntary work.

32 people say that they see no barriers to taking up employment or training, but others identified some problems. 12 people felt that family commitments could be a barrier, and 9 felt that lack of transport (public and private) was a problem.

127 people replied to the question asking how far they travel to their main place of work. The results were:

50% of those who replied work either at home or within the Parish, whilst the other 50% travel outside - with just over 5% travelling over 30 miles.

82 people replied to the question asking about the type of work they have. The results here were:

33 people in the parish reported that they run a business, and most of these are within the parish. 53% of the businesses are in agriculture, the others being mainly tourism, hotel and catering, and professional services. Together, the businesses employ a total of 63 people. Most say that their workforces are unlikely to increase, although 3 may do so; and most of the businesses have had no vacancies, or problems in filling vacancies, in the last five years.