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Stretton Grandison Group Neighbourhood Development Plan

Residents’ questionnaire survey

October 2017

David Nicholson

DJN Planning Ltd.

Residents’ survey Feb 2017

• Questionnaires hand delivered
• 119 forms collected – 31.6% of 16 and over
• Older people and females over-represented, and

24% of respondents from one postcode (HR8 2TD)

• 26 open and multiple choice questions about 14

policy options: for the vision/objectives, housing, environment, economy, flooding and other issues

• Focus tonight on answers to the multiple choice

questions

Vision and objectives

Agree with the objectives?

• Housing 92%
• Environment 95%
• Economy 90%

Policy option 1: settlement boundaries

• Majority support for the draft boundaries
• Notable number of comments and suggestions –

for further review

Yes, 72, 60% No, 32, 27% 15, 13%

Q5: agree with settlement boundaries?

Policy option 2: site allocations in all or

• nly some of the villages?
• 47% supported seeking sites in all villages
• Lower Eggleton and Fromes Hill – main focus villages
• Less interest in the lower-tier LPCS settlements

4 4 3 5 5 12 14 56 10 20 30 40 50 60

Not answered/no opinion None of them Upper Eggleton Canon Frome Stretton Grandison Fromes Hill Lower Eggleton All the settlements

• No. responding (Q6)

Policy option 2: first choice of settlement for development

• Significant non-response (51%)
• Lower Eggleton and Fromes Hill favoured for their main

road location

• Other villages felt to already have enough/too many

houses

1 9 1 22 19 5 10 15 20 25

Upper Eggleton Canon Frome Stretton Grandison Fromes Hill Lower Eggleton

• No. responding (Q7)

Policy option 3: Housing numbers

• Support for up to 10 houses in total in villages
• Less for up to 20 homes– highest ‘no’ score at 50%

Not answered , 2% None, 12% No more than 2, 30% No more than 10, 50% No more than 20, 6%

Q8: how many new homes in your village?

Policy option 4: size of each housing development

• Little support for one large estate – 72% opposed
• Individual dwellings most favoured - only 7% against
• Smaller schemes: for 56%, against 24%

64 90 67 2 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Garden infill development Individual plots Smaller developments <10 homes One large estate

• No. responding (Q9)

Policy option 4: style of housing

90 87 63 46 72 99 45 90 20 13 92 78 20 40 60 80 100 120

High energy conservation Off-street parking Larger gardens Smaller gardens Smaller style houses Respect existing buildings Modern style Period/traditional materials Flats/apartments Three storey Two storey Single storey

• No. responding (Q10)

Policy option 4: size/type of new homes

75 61 46 29 73 27 94 90 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Homes for local people Live/work properties Supported/retirement housing Flats/apartments Adapted/easy access eg bungalows Executive (4 bed or more) Family homes (3 bed or more) Starter homes (2 bedrooms)

• No. responding (Q11)

Policy option 5: Housing in wider countryside

Have a policy, 43% Leave it to Core Strategy, 44% Not answered, 10% Other, 3%

Q13: include a policy on development in the countryside,

• r leave it to the Core Strategy?

Policy option 6: landscape features

Q14: protecting the environment

• Most important, to 76%: protect the natural environment
• Followed by protecting views and vistas (62%)
• Least important: conserving historic buildings and

features (59% saw this as most important)

Q15: dark skies

• Important to 71%

Q16: important landscape features

• General and specific

Policy option 7: Local Green Spaces

Q17: areas for protection as LGS

• Homend Park (by 54% of respondents): historic

value, recreational value, biodiversity, visual amenity

• Other areas: e.g. Canon Frome Court, Stretton

Grandison church and environs, Hfds and Glos. canal

Policy option 8: built heritage

Q18: distinctive local built features

• Specific buildings: Canon Frome Court and Church,

Church Farm, Stretton Grandison church and neighbouring houses

• Building types: hop kilns, converted barns, rural look

and feel

• Materials: brick, stone, timber, slate, thatch.

Policy option 9: re-use of redundant farm buildings

Q19: policy criteria to guide re-use?

• Preferred uses: small-scale offices/business units,

workshops, live/work units and others, including housing.

• Planning criteria:

– safe access and visibility, traffic and parking – avoid adverse impacts on amenity – refurbishment in scale and keeping.

Policy option 10: new farm buildings

Q20: policy criteria to guide new agricultural developments?

– safe access and visibility, traffic and parking – careful siting, height limits, materials and colour – avoid adverse impacts on amenity through noise, lighting and odour – environmentally aware and energy efficient

Policy option 11: community energy schemes

Yes, 79, 66% No, 20, 17% 20, 17%

Q21: include policy on community based energy scheme?

Policy option 11: type of energy scheme

• Solar power most favoured, by 66%
• Least favoured, by 37%: wind power – with 38%
• pposed

44 59 56 78 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

Wind power Biomass Water Solar

• No. responding (Q22)

Policy option 12: flooding

11 6 16 4 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

Road run-off Sewers overflowing Field run-off River/stream overflow

• No. responding (Q24)

Policy option 13: Sustainable community

• Priority issue, for 76% - attracting younger people
• Many further comments to this question – for further

review.

79 91 82 64 79 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

More community facilities Attracting younger people Walking, cycling and using the bus - driving less Allocating land to grow own food Enhanced energy efficiency

• No. responding (Q25)

Policy option 14: Traffic, transport and access

Speed and volume of vehicles

18 25 10 25 53 10 20 30 40 50 60

Lower Eggleton Upper Eggleton Castle Frome Canon Frome Stretton Grandison

• No. responding (Q26)

Policy option 14: Traffic, transport and access

Other transport issues

12 55 37 15 60 6 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Not answered Bus service Footpaths Road developments Road maintenance Parking in your village

• No. responding (Q26)

Messages for the NDP

• Support for the Vision and objectives
• Review settlement boundaries in light of comments made
• Mixed messages on scope of a Call for Sites – all settlements,
• r just Fromes Hill and Lower Eggleton
• Useful feedback on the size and type of housing schemes
• Develop environment policies to reflect responses and

comments made

• Review comments on LGS at Homend Park against NPPF

criteria

• Good feedback on criteria for re-use of rural buildings, and for

new agricultural buildings at Homend Park

• Reflect responses to Q25 – sustainable community - in policies

for housing and employment, as far as possible