East Farleigh Village Plan What's Happening Now and Next
9/10/2011. Currently, a questionnaire has been circulated to all households to test village opinion on whether or not to proceed with feasibility study to consider ideas for a village centre along with improvements to traffic congestion and, possibly, the acquisition of an orchard for village use.
2/11/2011. The Village Plan Action Group (VPAG) met to consider the results of the survey about a Village Centre/Green Feasibility Study. The results were as follows:
| Summary of Survey Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Questionnaires distributed | c650 | ||
| Questionnaires returned | 37 Posted | 15 by Hand | 171 collected |
| Response rate | 34% | ||
| Votes for | 136 | 61% | |
| Votes Against | 83 | 37.2 | |
| Abstain | 4 | 1.8 | |
| Contribution to cost offered | 25 | 11.2% | |
There were numerous comments, as well as a lengthy letter, both for and against the study. These are available for inspection here... Download Survey Comments and the letters refered to are here... download letter 1, download letter 2
VPAG decided, therefore, to proceed with the study and will now meet with a representative of DHA Planning to work on a commissioning brief for it. All comments made by residents in response to the Group's survey, along with the Village Plan itself, will be taken into account when agreeing the brief.
Before the commissioning brief is finalised VPAG will make it available to the Parish Council and invite the Council's comments. Once finalised, the commissioning document will be published on this website. Any proposals from the study will then be subject to full public discussion with the Parish Council and village residents.
14/12/2011. After this week's Parish Council meeting it was agreed that a public meeting would be held in the Old School Hall enabling villagers to review the proposed brief for the feasibility study that is to investigate options for a village green and traffic/highway improvements in the village.
Villagers will be invited to make suggestions on how the brief can be improved, and to help shape the way we address the remaining objectives set out in the Village Plan. We hope as many people as possible will come along with their ideas and questions.
It is anticipated that the meeting will be held early in the New Year and the date will be posted on this site and announced in Grapevine as soon as it is decided.
Up to date information about progress will be added to this page as it becomes available.
(Page last updated 14/12/2011)
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