Broadway Parish Plan 2005: Open Day

The Parish Plan Open Day has been and gone!

Thanks to everyone who came along and helped shape the future!

Thanks also to the clubs and societies for coming along, to the traders for their support with the advertising, and to everyone else who helped with the event.

Documentation (PDF)

• The "what is the Parish Plan?" flyer handed out at the door can be found here.
   
• The posters that we put up around the village can be found here.
   
• The "can you help" questionnaire can be found here.

Please feel free to complete the questionnaire and send it back to us if you still want to volunteer, or just drop us an email!).

Most of these files are in Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format). Most computers should be able to read these: however, If you can't open them for some reason, you can get the reader for free from Adobe's web site by clicking the button below.

Survey Findings (PDF)

A copy of the high-level data and findings is available here.

We're releasing this data now in the name of openness, and because it might be useful for actions already underway that can't afford to wait for the final Plan later this year. However, we'll need to accompany the data with some words of explanation:

1. This document only gives you the high-level findings. It doesn't identify any specific actions or issues, merely the general trends. We need to delve into these further - including all the comments - before we can draw any conclusions. You can prove anything with statistics as we all know, so please use them carefully!
    
2. Each response we received (the 3900+) has been put into one of eight categories or "buckets": Amenities & Services, Community, Environment, Housing, Leisure, Parking, Shops & Commercial and Traffic. These high-level categories were chosen to reflect the data, so we don't have categories for what people didn't say.
    
3. Each response has then also been put into a sub-category, dependent on that bucket. So, for example, Amenities & Services has been further broken down into Benches & Seating, Childcare, Library, Medical/Dentist/Vet, Policing/Police Station, Post Office/Post Deliveries, Public Transport, Toilets and Other. Again, these have been selected based on the data, so the vast majority of responses can be slotted into one of these categories.
    
4. Each response has then been categorised as a positive comment, a negative comment, or a suggestion. As a guide, positive comments were along the lines of "I like what we have, I like the status quo, I'd would like to see more" as opposed to a negative comment which was "I don't like what we have, I don't like the status quo, I'd like to see less". Suggestions don't fit into either of these: typically, where someone simply offered an idea with no context to determine whether it was positive or negative.

Open Day Presentation (Shockwave)

We had a rolling presentation being displayed during the day to act as a "talking point" for the session.

The presentation included headline statistics and a selection of quotes taken from the responses people gave us. These quotes were deliberately chosen to show the breadth of opinions: that doesn't mean to say that they're representative of any majority views, but they are good examples of the sorts of things people said to us. You won't agree with all of them (indeed, you can't, since some are flat contradictions of others!) but they are genuine opinions, expressed in good faith by the people who hold them.

We became aware at the Open Day that some people thought that these were conclusions or recommendations of some kind: rest assured, they're not! They are merely views from across the age range of respondents, nothing more. We won't have conclusions until the process is finished.

However, if you do disagree with any of these... if any make your blood boil... if you find yourself violently agreeing with any of them, or cursing at your computer screen because anyone could have had such a ridiculous opinion - well, why not volunteer to help us put together the plan?

Join us and help!

Anyway, many people asked if we could make this available to the public, so here it is: click here to display it. Note that this presentation requires Macromedia Shockwave  to view (most browsers will have this installed - if not, you can get the free player from www.macromedia.com).

Do you want to make a difference? We need help from all parts of the community, so get involved - contact us for more information or to volunteer.