Longparish
Village Plan Open Day 7 December 2002
Well over 70 people attended the Open Day. 69 of them gave us information about their age, sex and the area they came from. Here is a graph showing the result.
Comments from the public
People were asked to record their comments using post it notes on posters around the wall of the village hall committee room. We gave headings and suggested what they might think about with some brief words on the posters. This is the raw data. It needs some analysis before we can go on the prepare the next stage, a questionnaire.
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Communication & Information within the village
We mentioned
events, Hill & Valley, notices, adverts, website, shop, discussion forums, one to one-
What's good?
- Hill and Valley to every home in the village is a good method of communication
- Shop and Post Office. Hill and Valley
- Web site. H&V
- Shop as asset
- Hill and Valley is excellent means of communication + shop
- Hill + Valley. Shop
- Web site provides an up to date record of village activities and news
- Shop. Hill and Valley
- Shop. Hill and Valley
- Hill & Valley
- Shop. Hill and Valley
- Web site and H&V both excellent
- Shop as a focal point for verbal communication
- Web site, shop, Hill and Valley
- Web site, Hill and Valley, shop
- Hill and Valley is very good
- Hill and Valley. Shop. Community spirit
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What's bad or missing?
- Broadband. (Andover is not due to be done. Let alone the villages. AB computers is going to go for radio type broadband. Nothing bisbis expected)
- Broadband
- Community spirit with some folks
- Shall we get together re broadband
- Web discussion areas. Broadband - let's all get on line
- Annotated 'let's all get together re this'
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What should be improved?
- We could do with some more volunteers to help with the web site
- Notice boards
- Notice board near or on skate ramp for young people
- More notice boards, easier to post on
- A village notice board for everyone to use to inform of local events
- Web site needs explanation to the aged!!!
- More and better use of notice boards
- More volunteers
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What's the most important?
- H&V and better notice boards
- Regular and up to date info re events
- Keeping people in touch with what the village does
- Communication within the village at all levels
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Crime, Nuisance and Personal Safety
We mentioned
litter, noise, dogs, neighbours, neighbourhood watch, police-
What's good?
- Kind to everyone
- Neighbour watch. Caring neighbours
- Neighbours
- Neighbours
- Dogs are worth a mess or two
- Kind neighbours. Beautiful village. Let's keep it that way.
- Organised clean ups
- Neighbourhood watch
- There are few problems
- Generally a pleasant area to live. Relatively safe to live in
- Neighbours
- Very little crime. Our village is a safe place
- Two village clean ups a year but same faces do it every time
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What's bad or missing?
- Too many 'townie' attitudes re things like security lights, massive fences, huge padlocks, etc
- Lighting in North Acre between garages
- Police actually taking any action
- Enough visual police patrols
- Game keepers (not water)
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What should be improved?
- More police in the area. Less noise pollution
- Keep dogs under control when out walking and keep them safely shut in within their own gardens
- Dog owners should carry bags to clean up
- Less dog mess
- Still dog fouling in North Acre
- Noise and litter are a v great problem. Introduce sleeping policemen along Southside Road and extend 30mph to by Southside Farm
- An awareness by the police as to where Longparish is. A central control lacks local knowledge
- More police in evidence and taking action
- Police patrols improved
- Need a more co-ordinated neighbourhood watch scheme
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What's the most important?
- Maintaining the traditional peace of the village
- Neighbours
- Litter. Neighbourhood watch
- Neighbourhood watch.. Neighbours look after each other
- Neighbours
- Understanding that we do live in a rural/agricultural community
- Agreed
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Education & Childcare
We mentioned
mother & toddler, playgroup, school, pre-after school care, child minders/nannies-
What's good?
- School, playgroup, toddler group to be
- School and playgroup excellent. Looking forward to M & toddler group. V good news
- School, playgroup, mother and toddler
- School has a very good reputation
- Mother and toddler group starting in January
- V good school
- School, etc
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What's bad or missing?
- Out of school care
- School and village need to become more integrated. Less them and us
- After school club
- Breakfast club and homework club. Any offers of help with either 01264 720713
- School parking
- Wrap around care to help working parents
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What should be improved?
- Before/after school care clubs for working parents
- Car parking by church/school
- More local people need to send their children to our school
- More contact with the village within school - readers - cooking with kids, etc
- The school and playgroup buildings
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What's the most important?
- School
- Keeping quality school as an integral part of community
- Sorting the chaos at suicide corner at 9.00 and 3.00
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Work
We mentioned
opportunities in village, village businesses, tele-cottage facilities/infrastructure, commuters, home workers-
What's good?
- Not many people can look out of their window at work and see swans on the river, cattle grazing, beautiful surroundings
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What's bad or missing?
- Co-ordination of transport for those who travel to work
- No-one knows who works from home - or who has business from home
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What should be improved?
- Broadband access for Internet for home working
- Support for home workers. How about a weekly pub lunch and email network?
- More sharing of what local 'businesses' are. e.g. business breakfast club type thing
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What's the most important?
- Keep shop and post office
- Must keep shop and post office
- Support village and local businesses
- Shops
- Use shop and post office more
- Shop
- Shop
- Keep shop and pubs
- Shop including post office
- That we keep the village shop, PO and 2 pubs
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Traffic & Road Safety
We mentioned
volume, speed, noise, pavements / paths-
What's good?
- The roads are mainly safe to walk
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What's bad or missing?
- Cars doing more than 30 in village
- Need notices of no footpaths in village
- Traffic speed too high but any measures to control need to be sensitive to village environment
- Cut through when A303 blocked
- Car sharing scheme for Whitchurch station, working elsewhere e.g. Basingstoke and school runs
- Pavement from village hall car park to school
- More slow signs on the road
- No long vehicles in Longparish
- Street lighting along lines of Barton Stacey
- Traffic speed
- Roads totally inadequate for modern traffic sizes and volume
- Safety bumps/slow signs by the skate ramp/play park
- Footpaths
- Warning sign entrance to Forton from main road
- Speed of traffic too high - need calming measures
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What should be improved?
- Resurfacing
- Maintenance of roads. They should be properly repaired, widened and the drains kept clear. None of this is currently done
- Keep drains clear and control speed to include turning into Mill Lane
- Resurface A303 to reduce noise
- Drainage
- More frequent road repairs and regular drain clearage to reduce flooding risk
- Cut hedges back A LOT - especially from Forton to A303
- Pavements in North Acre unsafe for wheelchair users
- Speed traps to stop/slow down rat runners during heavy traffic on A303
- A difficult one - lack of pavement for people going up and down village road. Speedy vehicles
- Make it hard/impossible for large lorries without too much urban paraphernalia
- Reduce noise. Need low noise surface on A303
- Hear hear
- Too many people still speed through village
- Speed limit right through village from Forton to end of village
- Please may we have a warning sign for ducks before the Plough pub
- Street lights
- Speed restricted
- Some of the roads in the area are in desperate need of repair
- Resurfacing pavement outside school. Encourage people to walk from North Acre to school along footpath. Need to improve surface of footpaths
- More awareness of people walking to and from school so a walking bus would be safe
- Stop lorries coming through village
- 30mph limit extended to cover all Southside Road and Mill lane
- Cutting banks/hedges/etc. very untidy in places
- 30mph limit should be extended to include other end of Southside Road
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What's the most important?
- Safety for pedestrians but NO STREET LIGHTS or excessive urban traffic calming
- Stopping large lorries. No street lights
- Signs on A303 and A3400 at Hurstbourne informing large vehicles - 'Village unsuitable for large vehicles'
- Not to introduce non village measures - such as street lighting. This would take awat=y the essence of village life
- A footpath parallel to road through village
- Speed. Pavements and paths
- A303 noise suppressing surface like near A34 junction West bound
- Try to stop large lorries and similar coming through if they don't need to visit the village.
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Environment
We mentioned
recycling, composting, pollution, litter-
What's good?
- General maintenance level of public/common areas is very good
- Wheelie bins. Recycling at Cricketers. Paper collection
- When the clean up days are done - the roads e.g. Southside and Middleway are lovely and clean for a while
- The awareness of nature and care of the countryside
- Good to have bottle bank at Cricketers
- Good having bottle bank at Cricketers
- The open spaces
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What's bad or missing?
- Noise from A303 but limited scope for reducing it I guess
- Litter. Pollution
- A shredding facility maybe 4 times a year
- Warning of major noisy army exercises
- Fly tipping on the road side, especially garden waste
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What should be improved?
- More understanding of the waste produce in our community
- Recycling - collection from kerb side. More information and reminders re recycling
- It would be better if TVBC did a kerb side collection of glass
- We need a rubber factory
- Rubbish dropping off lorries to Harewood Indust Estate
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What's the most important?
- Rationalisation of footpaths
- Please keep village as a village
- stopping the amount of landfill
- To educate everyone to appreciate our lovely village and keep it litter free
- Building Planning restricted. Longparish is a village
- Maintaining the look and feel of the village as a village
- To keep footpaths clear for dog walkers especially
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Landscape & Wildlife
We mentioned
The Common nature reserve, streams, access to the river, water meadows, wildlife watch group-
What's good?
- Riverine habitat
- Stream, public areas all v well maintained. General look and feel is very well in keeping with the village
- Streams. Access to rivers
- Beautiful view when you come down hill to village
- Beautiful country walks
- The pleasant walks to see everything
- Cemetery v well kept and administered
- Well kept cemetery
- Landowners aware of the value of water meadows and managing them. Return to traditional practices.
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What's bad or missing?
- Too many rabbits
- Not enough scope for dogs to run free due to pheasants/shoots
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What should be improved?
- Retain as many views of river as possible
- So much beautiful river bank that we can't get to. It would be great to have some riverside paths
- Agree +++ re riverside paths
- Agree
- Access to river should be improved. V limited now
- Replacement of footpath 'bridge' in field opposite Longparish House 9noted 'that will happen after Christmas)
- Help the water and mud build up along path/road edges
- Cut river weed more often to reduce flooding risk
- Riverside footpath would be nice.
- Children used to be able to swim in river - at sheep dip and Long bridge - why not again?
- Freedom to walk the river banks and observe their natural beauty
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What's the most important?
- Access to countryside and river
- Maintaining coherent environment through sympathetic planting, etc
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Access to Healthcare
We mentioned
healthy living, care services-
What's good?
- Healthy environment
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What's bad or missing?
- A surgery in village
- A surgery in the village hall
- A surgery once a week as five miles is much too far for some
- A mobile surgery and/or foot clinic in the village
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What should be improved?
- To have a weekly clinic or medical advice available in the village
- Would it be possible for the doctors to hold a surgery in the village once a week?
- Weekly surgery and chiropodist in village hall with local pharmacy
- A non- emergency surgery once a week and a bookable chiropodist
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What's the most important?
- Easy access to free health care for those who can't get to Whitchurch, Andover, etc
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Support for the Elderly & Housebound
We mentioned
medical care, domestic support, daily care, neighbourhood support, transport, lifeline-
What's good?
- Good neighbours
- Good neighbours
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What's bad or missing?
- Alarm buzzers for elderly people living alone
- System for help/support within village to encourage offers voluntary help
- Knowing who might need help. Could the web site help here?
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What should be improved?
- Transport eg to hospital appointments, shopping, Whitchurch to bingo
- There should be more transport for the elderly
- Information on available, reliable help around house and garden for odd jobs
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What's the most important?
- Daily care, medical care, transport, neighbourhood support
- Look after people who are unwell
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Housing
We mentioned
right houses?, size, number, location, freehold/rental availability, weekenders
low cost/affordable housing, Is the present infilling policy best for the village?-
What's good?
- Control of materials ensuring houses compliment each other
- Good planning control and keeping green spaces in heart of village
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What's bad or missing?
- Big houses. Big Prices
- Affordable family housing
- Need houses to trade down to when kids leave home
- Affordable housing not weekend cottages
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What should be improved?
- Affordable houses so young people can stay in village
- Affordable housing for young families. Small estate preferable to infilling
- More smaller affordable housing
- Affordable housing
- Affordable housing to keep a good social and age mix in the village which will enable us to keep our current facilities
- Affordable housing for young families
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What's the most important?
- No infilling
- More lower cost housing to keep the age balance
- Settlement of affordable housing for children raised in the village
- No more infilling
- Don't spoil the village with more infilling. We need more houses but a hamlet with a good mix would be better. Post it is noted in different hands
- Quite right
- Yes Yes
- Low cost housing
- No further infilling. Retain open spaces.
- Infilling is wrong. We need back development. How about a new hamlet. A few more people would help the pubs, shop, school, villagehall, etc
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Village Retail Facilities
We mentioned
shop, pubs, post office, banking-
What's good?
- The shop has some good things and very good value
- Pubs and shop good. Need local support to survive
- The shop has good things to buy
- Excellent shop
- Shop has developed over the years with PO/alcohol/banking facilities etc. Burkes do wonderful job
- Shop, pubs
- Courtney and Becky like the sweets in the shop
- Shop, PO
- The shop Post Office is an excellent facility
- Balance about right with 2 pubs, shop and PO
- Village shop is an important social point
- Pubs very good. Shops and PO very useful
- Both pubs much improved
- Both pubs really goo - welcome, food and community minded. Let's encourage
- Shop has tried really hard to provide what the village needs and what will help to keep it in business
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What's bad or missing?
- Shop near school/in Forton
- Banking for all banks without penalty
- Newspaper deliveries
- Tea and coffee shop, cakes, etc. A nice meeting place
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What should be improved?
- Confidence in the future of the facilities
- Better fresh bread
- Could a co-op of local people be formed into a buying consortium if the shop has to close
- If shop and PO have to close could pubs take on this function
- Important to keep shop and PO open. Fresh fruit and veg, meat supplied as in Barton Stacey would be good
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What's the most important?
- One thing I believe is most important is we must retain the village shop and Post Office
- Shop and PO. Pubs
- Funding new ways to turn a lovely shop into a fantastic shop and not worry about the future
- How can we help the village shop?
- Keeping shop
- To keep the shop and Post Office
- Vital to retain shop and Post Office
- What happens when Pat and Anne retire?
- To keep the village Post Office and shop open most important for elderly people in the village
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People
We mentioned
is the balance right?-
What's good?
- Excellent parish council - well done for all this work
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What's bad or missing?
- What about a hostel type of place for youngsters that they can afford the rent for?
- Some way of young people being able to affords to live here
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What should be improved?
- Ensure the village youngsters can afford to live I their own village. Make rents reasonable. Build affordable housing. Encourage renting rooms
- Needs affordable housing for young people
- More of social mix with affordable housing. Would be good to keep young people in the village
- Affordable housing
- Need more young people
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What's the most important?
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Sport, Recreation & Social Facilities
We mentioned
different age groups, interests, exercise, meet people-
What's good?
- Skate ramp
- ticked
- Skate ramp good for youngsters
- Agree
- Cricket field. Football field. Play Park. Room at Plough for youngsters
- New skate ramp tremendous for youngsters
- Skate ramp a triumph of co-operation
- New skate ramp
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What's bad or missing?
- The apathy of many villagers towards 'social' events
- Trying to find an 'event' that might draw villagers together - e.g. panto - am dram production
- Film club in village hall
- Youth/sports club
- In a dormitory village - many people have their social life away from village - what might draw them into village life?
- More societies if we can encourage people to lead. Gardening/local history. What for young people? drama
- Tennis court
- Huge age range and social groups - difficult to find something for all to bring together everyone
- Am dram. Sports for kids
- What about a local outdoor swimming pool?
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What should be improved?
- More adventure play equipment in park. 9-12 years. Jungle slide or monkey bars, etc. (sorry about the cost)
- Village tennis court/club needed
- Agreed
- Public tennis courts
- Can the swimming place on the river be re-opened?
- So many tennis courts but none available to ordinary villagers
- More young cricketers attending practices
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What's the most important?
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Transport
We mentioned
bus service, car sharing, village mini-bus, children to school-
What's good?
- Cango buses have much improved the service
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What's bad or missing?
- Bus service to and from commuter trains
- car sharing
- The school should have a school mini bus
- Agree
- School dropping off and collection times make that bit of road really dangerous
- People have the answers but unwilling to use them
- What about posting on web site notice boards who goes where and when. Who is willing to offer lifts - also other way around - who needs lifts?
- Evening bus to and from town at weekends
- Transport to Whitchurch surgery
- Car sharing scheme
- Car sharing. Especially commuters
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What should be improved?
- Bus service in and out of Winchester needed
- taxi tokens to make them less expensive. Easier to get where and when you want
- Bus service could be improved - to Basingstoke, Winchester, working times in Andover
- Bus service to everywhere, esp later at night Andover and Winchester
- Kango bus don't go to Winchester
- Bus starts too late to get into Andover for most industrial estate jobs
- Need better parking, especially at school
- Better bus service for work start and finish times
- Improved bus service
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What's the most important?
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Visitors & Tourists
We mentioned
B&B, Test Way, Pubs, Footpaths, Do we want to encourage visitors, weekenders-
What's good?
- With restricted access to rivers, numbers about right
- Pubs are very good and friendly. More people could use games room at the Plough
- 2 good pubs with excellent food and a village shop
- Thoughts: Not much to 'draw' tourists - no visitable buildings, no tea shops, no antique shops, no loos, the paths network is not v good for circular walks. Actually, I'm not too worried!
- Good pubs and footpaths
- An excellent network of footpaths, well signposted
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What's bad or missing?
- Access to the river banks
- There are lots of people using footpaths currently - could this be capitalised on more locally - e.g. directions for 'pub walks'
- A footpath along the river would be great
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What should be improved?
- Would probably need car parking if we encouraged more tourists
- If we want more visitors we'd need - parking - info board with map of paths - something to do. [Big IF though - what would they do?]
- Public toilets would be handy
- Maybe a signpost map thing of pathways
- in village centre
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What's the most important?
- Not to lose the quiet and natural look and feel of the village
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Community Buildings
We mentioned
use, position, village hall, church, what else-
What's good?
- Village hall a real asset
- Church well looked after and accessible
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What's bad or missing?
- Toilet facilities for church
- Village hall which is big enough, central, modern and has adequate parking
- Have a look at Hurstbourne Priors Village Hall and then look at ours. Say no more.
- There is no facility that could be described as being the centre of the community
- New village hall in addition to school facilities
- Village hall not near main population centre
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What should be improved?
- What about leaving the village hall where it is and upgrading it?
- Village hall could be used more
- What about putting the Village Hall in the centre of the village
- Need to clarify whether the village hall is a facility to support the community or a revenue raiser
- Would the church consider the church as an event venue of Summer Charity Ball?
- Could more use be made of the church itself for actual community events?
- Upgrade the existing village hall. Not a new architect designed building.
- Annotated 'agreed'
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What's the most important?
- A new hall with surgery
- A new hall with side rooms for smaller groups
- Is it possible for the village hall to be modernised?
- More use of the village to increase fund of spending on the building
- New multi-purpose village hall
- A new hall, better located, with good parking
- A new hall. People have tried with existing one. I think there is enthusiasm for it so people will support
- More use of the village hall would mean a drier more pleasant place to come
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Young People
We mentioned
recreation, transport, work opportunities, where can they live when they leave home?, fun-
What's good?
- Recent increase in facilities is good news
- Skate ramp, play ground, Cricket Club, games room at Plough, football team sponsored
- Skate ramp, new room at Plough
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What's bad or missing?
- Difficult for young people to be independent due to lack of public transport
- Youth/sports club
- What else can we do to give them something constructive? See how well they have co-operated with the skate ramp
- Transport into Andover occasionally for swimming/other sports
- Youth club. Social/sport indoor facilities
- Brownies, Cubs, Guides, Scouts
- Internet cafe
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What should be improved?
- Any clubs/teams which people would join? Sports/hobbies?
- More people from the community to help at the school with citizenship syllabus and clubs
- Using the web site to help youngsters 'get together' and do things together
- Football team
- Youngsters football team
- More low cost housing
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What's the most important?
- To retain young people, stimulate them and get the best from them
- That there is enough for them to do to encourage them to be a responsible part of the community
- Young people are our future. We don't help them enough
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What else?
- Can't provide huge range of activities because small community. Concentrate on a few
- That we don't take on too much that we run out of volunteers
- A brothel please
- Who pays for all the improvements?
- Potholes properly repaired. Not temporary fixes
- A community association to support clubs and societies.
- Annotated 'good idea'
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What are the best things about living and/or working in Longparish?
- Wonderful people, strong community spirit. Beauty of our rural village
- Very pretty village and lots of walks locally
- Lovely village to live in. Enjoy all the get togethers
- Lovely, pretty environment
- Lovely to have a working farm, estate, still locally
- The beauty. The co-operation. The school. The shop. The sense of community
- Friendly community
- Beautiful village
- The peace, tranquillity of the village must be retained but we must encourage young people with affordable housing
- Working within 10 mins cycle ride from home
- Pretty village, lovely walks, close proximity to good towns and facilities
- Location, location
- We are very privileged to live in such a beautiful setting
- Friendly village, lovely countryside
- Friendly community, particularly shop, school
- The shop
- Excellent web site
- A friendly community
- The village is prepared to pull together to get things done
- When the community gets together it's a good thing. E.g. Golden Jubilee
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What are the worst things about living and/or working in Longparish?
- Drainage from roads is poor. Lots of people to not appear to participate in village life. Not enough shared transport
- People building without planning consent. No regard for fellow villagers. Noise from shooting
- The smell around
- Noise pollution and speeding traffic, especially along Southside Road
- Too many townies who don't understand the countryside
- Bus services
- Flooded roads
- Too much concentration on turning the village into a place with all town facilities
- Small core of volunteers
- Being far away from school friends
- Fast traffic through village. Noise from A303
- Too many people who never get to know and understand the village
- A303 noise. Has got much worse in recent years
- Too much apathy about what happens to the village
- Threat of increasing noise
- Speed on the road. However no speed bumps
- Noise
- Noise pollution
- Noise from A303 (Forton)
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We need volunteers to help
We mentioned
We need volunteers to take this plan forward, help design survey, enthusiasts, join the steering group, help survey everyone, experts on one aspect.- Willing to help. Tom Bremridge 720689
- I would be happy to be part of steering group if that would be helpful. David Wright. Yew Tree House. 720598
- I am willing to help. Just call. Andrea Hulme. 2 Park View Cotts
- Computer work + paperwork. Preparation. Posters. Alix Bremridge 720689
- Count me in to help where I can. John Ellicock
- More support from all people in village
- People should volunteer more often and it will make a big difference
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