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The idea of forming a parish plan was discussed at a Parish Council Meeting in November 2003. The general feeling was that it would be useful to have a document that would give some opinions of the Parish members, about what they wanted in the Parish and what they didn’t, because often, as a Parish Council it was difficult to make decisions about what needs to be done, when only a few members of the public attended the monthly meeting. We wanted to be able to make plans that reflected the majority of opinion not just the opinion of the strongest voice or those of the current Parish Councillors.

A small committee of interested people was formed in 2004 to formulate a questionnaire that would give us this information. Eventually the questionnaire was sent out to all households in the Parish in October 2005 and the information analysed.

This document is not meant to be a formalised plan for the next 10 years of what should be done but is to let the people of the Parish know what came from the questionnaire and to give the Parish Council a point of reference when topics come up for discussion or decisions need to be made about the Parish, and so considering the majority views. 

There were Two Parts to the questionnaire. Part One, which was for one member of the household to answer, to give a general view of the make up of the Parish, for example numbers of people, age ranges etc. And Part Two which was divided into 9 topics.

In this document you will find an analysis of the results from the questionnaire, a summary of the personal comments made.

Obviously we can only report on the answers we received back and therefore this may not reflect the opinions of those who have moved into the Parish since the questionnaire took place or those who chose not to return the questionnaire.

Thanks go to everyone who helped produce this plan, not only those who produced and analysed the questionnaire, but also those of you who took the time to fill it in.