The views of local residents underpin the policies which go into the Neighbourhood Development Plan. Questionnaires were developed, based on the Your Community Your Future consultation events of April 2014, and given to every person in the Group Parish during May 2014.
A detailed Adult Resident’s Questionnaire was prepared, with professional advice from Data Orchard CIC, covering all of the areas identified in the Your Community Your Future events.
See the questionnaire here: Parish Council Questionaire
A separate Young People’s Questionnaire was also developed, and given to all children in the Group Parish and also completed by all children in Stoke Prior Community Primary School . See the questionnaire here: NDP Young People’s Q’e
A separate, confidential, survey form was also provided, for landowners to give details of any Land for Possible Future Development
The questionnaires were personally delivered to every household by a team of 24 volunteer distributors in late May. A Covering letter was provided explaining the importance of the questionnaire and how to return it. In nearly every case the distributor was able to explain the nature of the NDP process to each of the residents they visited, to underline its importance and then to return to the house to collect the completed questionnaire in early June.
An excellent return of 82% of all residents aged 16 or more was achieved, and this was subsequently shown to be a good cross-section of our society with all age groups represented.
In addition a land survey questionnaire was returned by 41 households and a young people’s survey produced 72 responses (not far off 100%) from those aged 5 to 15 years.
An analysis and full report on the data collected in the questionnaires was compiled by Data Orchard CIC and passed to the Steering Committee in August 2014.
See the reports from Data Orchard CIC here:
Humber Ford and Stoke Prior NDP Full report Issue 1
Humber Ford and Stoke Prior NDP anonymised comments v1
Humber Ford and Stoke Prior NDP Young peoples survey report version 1-0
Summary report of land for development survey