Communication & Information within the village

•  Shop as centre for communication within village

•  Hill & Valley

•  Website

•  More notice boards

•  Broadband

•  Widen Hill & Valley distribution

•  Put church service info on website

•  Notice boards in hand

•  Broadband action group

•  No action to date

•  In hand (Jonathan Evans)

Crime, Nuisance and Personal Safety

•  Friendliness of neighbours and community spirit

•  Neighbourhood Watch

•  Very little crime

•  Dog mess

•  Litter and fly-tipping in some areas

•  Lack of visible/close police presence

•  Some concerns about ‘townie' attitudes

•  Some concern about noise from shooting ground

Education & Childcare

•  Excellent school and playgroup

•  Mothers & toddlers group

•  School buildings

•  Before and after school care

•  Parking/traffic situation (including bikes)

•  Pedestrian access through village

•  Building project in hand

•  Project in hand

•  Some apparent concern about lack of integration of school & village

Work

•  Lovely working environment if you work in the village

•  The shop (and Anne & Corinne!)

•  The pubs (see networking!)

•  Broadband

•  Co-ordination of transport for people who travel to work

•  Improved bus services

•  Networking & other facilities for those working from home

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Traffic & Road Safety

•  Longparish as a quiet rural village

•  Reducing speed of vehicles through village

•  No big lorries

•  Poor or no footpaths

•  Danger round bends especially school & village hall

•  Warning signs

•  Better repairs to road surface

•  Hedges/brambles cut back better

•  Reduce surface noise from A303 (esp. Forton)

•  The volume of comments reflected many concerns in this area

•  Conflicting views on the value of street lighting

Environment

•  Keeping the village as a village in beautiful countryside

•  Bottle bank at Cricketers

•  TVBC recycling/wheelie bins

•  Not much litter

•  Lack of pollution

•  Litter a problem in specific areas: skate ramp; A303 flyover/Harewood, North Acre, fly-tipping, picnicers

•  Keeping footpaths clear

•  Shredding, composting and additional recycling facilities

•  Noise from A303

•  Warning of army exercises

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Landscape & wildlife

•  The beautiful, well-kept village environment, streams & country walks

•  Sensitive management of water meadows

•  Access to and seating by the river including safe swimming place for children

•  Footpaths – by river; circular routes, bridge LP House water meadows

•  Cutting reed more often

•  Some conflicting views about access to riverside

Access to Healthcare

•  Healthy environment

•  Good care services

•  Access to doctor, chiropodist, pharmacist

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•  Exercise classes in village hall

•  Either through visiting surgeries in village or improved transport

•  Exercise classes have started

Support for the Elderly & Housebound

•  Good neighbours

•  Lifeline

•  Warden

•  Shop

•  Transport facilities for hospital appointments, bingo, shopping etc

•  System for providing information on voluntary/reliable help that could be available

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Housing

•  Green spaces in village

•  Control of materials so houses compliment one another

•  Provision of affordable housing for youngsters, family houses, for trading down

•  Too many weekenders

•  Views expressed against infilling and for a mixed housing hamlet providing affordable housing and increasing the population for the benefit of all our facilities

Village retail facilities

•  The post office, shop and pubs

•  The community-focus of the shop & pubs

•  Facilities in shop – improved banking, wider range of goods

•  Tea shop

•  Much concern and lack of confidence about the future of the shop

•  Importance of shop in particular to the “community”

People

•  Nice neighbours

•  Good parish council

•  Consultation

•  Youngsters unable to stay in the village – affordable housing, hostel, renting.

•  Some issues about ‘newcomers', weekenders, people who ‘don't know what village life is all about”

Sport, recreation & social facilities

•  Cricket field, football field, skate ramp, play park, room at Plough for youngsters, pub, cricket, school sports, good paths

•  Extra facilities – tennis court; more play equipment, swimming place, basketball court

•  More social events and clubs and societies

•  Concerns about getting people involved – dormitory village; events & clubs need leaders

•  Also, with wide range of ages/social groups, difficult to find ways to bring all together

•  How do you get kids outside and away from the TV?

Transport

•  Cango buses an improvement

•  Bus services – destinations (Winchester & Basingstoke poor) & times unhelpful for work start/finish; tie-in with trains & late at night

•  Systems for car sharing – commuters but also mums

•  School/village minibus

•  Better parking and pedestrian access at school would help situation within the village

Visitors & tourists

•  The quiet, natural look of the village

•  High standards at pubs

•  Well-kept footpaths

•  Tourist-specific signposting

•  Circular walks with maps on web site

•  Tea room

•  General feel that we wouldn't want to have too many tourists, but that we could perhaps make more of what we've got

•  Do we ant the things they might want – toilets, extra car parks, antique shops…

Community buildings

•  Recent improvements in Village Hall

•  Church accessible plus hearing loop

•  Existing location of village hall is not central to community

•  Building needs modernising

•  A new hall could solve the problems and provide extra facilities such as surgery

•  Youth groups

•  Concerns about village hall situation – is it best to upgrade existing or get new; what about new school hall as a facility, or the church?

•  Also concern – will people use a hall?

Young people

•  Existing facilities- skate ramp, play park, cricket club, games room at Plough

•  More for young people to do – youth/sports club; internet café

•  Transport to Andover for swimming etc

•  After school care

•  Adults helping at the school with citizenship & clubs

•  Street course for skating by the ramp

•  Lack of independence caused by poor transport facilities

•  Moving away from village because of lack of affordable housing and poor work opportunities

•  How can we get them constructively involved?

•  Perhaps use the website to help them get together

What else?

•  Small community, limited number of volunteers – don't take on too much

•  Who pays for the improvements?

•  What about a community association to support clubs and societies?

What are the best things about living and/or working in Longparish?

•  Beautiful, peaceful village in lovely countryside

•  Nice people, friendly community, prepared to pull together to get things done

•  Great pub & shop

What are the worst things about living and/or working in Longparish?

•  Speeding traffic

•  Poor bus services

•  Flooded roads

•  Noise – A303 (Forton) & shooting

•  ‘Townies' and wish for ‘town' facilities

•  Apathy

•  Smell

•  People building without planning consent

•  Terrible state of footpaths in autumn/winter

•  Small core of volunteers (is this that they don't like the small core, or that there should be more!?)

•  Slight insularity and unwillingness to accept change and innovation