Q1.1. Please list up to three things that you think make Wolsingham look attractive at present:

Q1.2. Please list up to three things that you think spoil the way Wolsingham looks :

Q1.3. Below is a list of suggestions for improvements to Wolsingham. Please select your preference for each by ticking the box:-

Where would you suggest any further improvements should be carried out?

Q1.4. What else, if anything, could be done to improve the way Wolsingham looks?

Q2.1. Do you do most of your shopping in Wolsingham?

If answer No, please go to question 2.3

Q2.2. Why Wolsingham? (Please tick all boxes that apply to you)

Convenient Location   

No means of getting to other shopping centres   

Price of goods   

Choice of products   

Quality of products   

Other reasons (please specify)   

Q2.3. If you answered no to Q2.1, why do you choose to do most of your shopping outside Wolsingham?

(please tick all boxes that apply to you)

Supermarkets available within reasonable distance   

Inconvenient location of shops   

Parking problems   

High prices in local shops   

Lack of choice in local shops   

Poor quality in local shops   

Other reasons (please specify)

Q2.4. How many times per month do you typically make use of the following facilities within the village (enter a number):

Other Please specify:

Q2.5. Below is a list of facilities and services provided in Wolsingham. Please tick whether

you are satisfied or dissatisfied with each of them.

Please use the space below for any further comments you wish to make about those services and facilities with which you expressed dissatisfaction above:

Q3.1a Below is a list of the local health services. Please tick whether you consider each to be adequate or inadequate:

Q3.1b. Do you experience any difficulties with the following :?

1. Lack of transport to healthcare facilities

Choose: Yes No Do not use

2. Lack of home support or caring services e.g. personal care, caring for a sick member of the household

                    Choose: Yes No Do not use

Please detail :

Q4.1. How many motor vehicles does your household have the use of?
(Please enter number in box; if none please go to Q 4.2)

Of these motor vehicles, how many are usually parked in the street

Q4.2. Whereabouts in Wolsingham do you think there are problems with

parking? (please tick all boxes that apply to you)

Outside your own house   

(If yes, please name street

Shopping area/ Town Square, specify where

Open spaces, specify where

Crossroads, specify where

Outside Doctor’s/Dentist’s surgery   

Elsewhere (please specify)

Q4.3. Do you think with regard to traffic, that speeding is a problem?

Choose: Yes No

If yes , where

What remedy would you propose (e.g. calming, road narrowing measures )

Q4.4(a). Starting with yourself (1^st), please indicate, by ticking the appropriate box,

how often any person in your household uses local bus services:

(b) How many people in your household use the bus to travel to work?

(Please write number in box)

(c) How satisfied are you with the local bus services (tick)?

Choose: Satisfied Dissatisfied

(d) Would you like to see a ’Town shuttle or hopper bus service around Wolsingham’?

Choose: Yes No

If you are dissatisfied with the local bus services, please use the space below for any further comments you may wish to make:

As an alternative to the above do you use a taxi/ if so. How often:

And why?

Q4.5. Would you like to see the reopening of the Railway?

Choose: Yes No

Section 5: Crime/Safety and the Community.

Q5.1. (a) Would you like to see more Police foot patrols?

Choose: Yes No

2. Do you think that Wolsingham is a safe place in which to live?

                    Choose: Yes No

Q5.2. Apart from Q4.3 Do you think there are parts of the town where road

safety is a problem (specify)

? 

Q5.3 Does Wolsingham need the following improvements in public safety as a priority ?

(tick for yes)

Provision of a Parish Constable   

Security lighting in the main shopping area   

Upgrading street lighting   

More off road parking spaces   

Maintenance of Neighbourhood Watch Scheme   

Q6.1. How much new housing do you think would be desirable for

Wolsingham? 

Choose: No more housing 1 to 49 additional homes 50 to 99 Additional homes Over 100 additional homes

Q6.2. If new houses are built, what type do you think they should be?
( tick four boxes only)

Low cost starter homes   

Family housing   

Sheltered housing   

Single person’s accommodation   

Bungalows   

Dwellings for special needs   

Executive housing   

Rented accommodation   

Other (please specify)

Q7.1. In your opinion, are there enough outside play areas in Wolsingham?
(please tick for yes)

For under 6 year olds    

For 6 to 14 year olds    

Q7.2. Are there any further comments you would like to make about

leisure/entertainment services in the village?

Q7.3. Do you consider there to be too many Halls catering for the various

activities and functions taking place in Wolsingham?

Yes:

If there was one major centre for those activities and functions,

where do you consider, that that location should be

Q.7.4 What additional Recreation, Leisure or entertainment facilities would you like to see in Wolsingham? (max 3)

Q7.5. A number of facilities in Wolsingham and Weardale are at risk of closure because of financial constraints. Please list the 3 most important facilities in Wolsingham that you would wish to be retained:

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Q8.1. Do you think the following facilities and provision adequately meets the community’s needs ?

Nursery Education: Adequate Inadequate

 Why?

Infant Adequate Inadequate

Why?

Secondary Adequate Inadequate

Why?

Adult Adequate Inadequate

 Why?

Q8.3. What other Educational or Training provision is required ?

Q9.1. (a) Are you interested in setting up your own business in the local area?

Yes No Don't know

What might deter you ? 

(b) If you run your own business what can the community do to support

you and/or what other support would you seek?

(c) Does the absence of suitable premises deter you from setting up in business?

Yes No

If yes, what size of premises would you seek to occupy, and where ?

Q9.2.(a)Do you think that there are sufficient work and training opportunities within easy travelling distance of the town?

Yes No Yes No

(b) Do any of the following prevent you from taking up work:

Lack of child care or other caring facilities   

Lack of transport   

Loss of benefit payments   

Other, please specify

Q9.3. Do you support tourism in the Parish? Yes No

If yes, do you have any view as to what might improve tourism?

Q9.4. What do you think are the main existing attractions for visitors/tourists

in and around the town? Please specify ….

Q10.1. In previous years, the "closed churchyard" at Wolsingham (ie the part at the front of the church) has been maintained through financial assistance from Wear Valley District Council; this has now been withdrawn. The Parish has a legal duty to maintain the churchyard, but if the current level is maintained this is the equivalent of about £3 per year for every household in the Parish. Do you favour:

Choose: Maintenance at current level Maintenance at same level as rear churchyard (lower cost) Maintenance at minimum cost

That's it !

Thank you for sparing the time to complete the questionnaire. Please use the box below for any further comments you would like to make about services and facilities in and around Wolsingham and Thornley that exist or you would like to see made available.