Jeremy Barber                                                              Mike Johnson

Mary Jo Darrah                                                              Alix Bremridge

David Wright                                                                 Andrea Hulme

No outstanding actions from the previous meeting.

Some expenses had been incurred, including a draft survey form at a cost £150 + VAT.   Total spent so far is £1,952.   Application to be made to Countryside Agency for further tranche of money.

ACTION:                   FG/JB

•  Most of village landowners have been contacted and information gathered.

•  Testway Housing – contact made with them and they have supplied some policies and details of North Acre housing stock.

•  Army – no response yet.   Try to contact via Dreweatt Neate.

•  Harewood Industrial Estate – still to be contacted.

ACTION: MJD and JB to continue to make contact with remaining landowners.

Fiona provided hard copies of the Basic Facts collation of the Questionnaire responses.   The meeting went through the initial analysis of the questionnaires in order to draw conclusions and consider what other analyses should be carried out.   Some of which are shown below.

Q.2 Protecting and improving Longparish

Better opportunity for young people to influence what happens in the village.

More organised activities for children (e.g. a youth club)

Q3 Road Safety

Safety concerns – when I am on foot

Significant danger spots

Other dangerous areas

Q5. Housing

It was felt there was a mandate for a full housing survey.

Young people cannot afford to remain in the village when they leave home.

Q6. Transport

Look into this topic but a due to low numbers it may be a lower priority.

Q7. Communication

Would you be interested in having internet access in the village that you could use?

Q8. Finding out what's happening

Setting up a community association.

Q.9 Do you work from home?

Review.

Q.10 Would you be interested ….getting involved in any way?

Youth Council.

It was felt some responses would benefit from being analysed into sub-populations.   It was agreed that the sub-groups should be reconvened with the intention of finding ways to review certain topics:

                  Volunteer team members will be needed to support the leaders.  

                  Next meeting should define what further analysis is needed, who will participate in the groups (drawing in people with particular expertise where possible), in order to produce proposals by Steering Group by end October.

7.            Next meeting:   Tuesday 28 September to review progress of groups -

( any offers of location please?).