Fillongley Parish Plan

December 16, 2009: Latest action plan published. Click here to open.

The Fillongley Parish Plan was an initiative run by a sub-group in the name of the Parish Council.

An extensive questionnaire was compiled and circulated, and about 50% of the households in the parish responded - resulting in over 45,000 data items received and analysed.

The details were fed back to the community and, in mid-2006 the qualified findings and proposed programme plan were delivered back to the Parish Council - at which point the Parish Plan sub-group was disbanded.  While there is no formal process to defining a Parish Plan, Fillongley Parish Council have provided some feedback on specific actions against some points raised. (see Current Status below)

For documents containing the Questionnaire, sub-group minutes, results and the programme plan - please refer to the Parish Plan folders in the Library. To view the Library, please click here.

Parish Plan Outline

Click on each of these links to navigate to the specific topic.

• What is a Parish Plan?
• When were the Parish Plan meetings?
• What was the original Questionnaire?
• What was returned from the Questionnaire?
• What was the feedback to the council?
• What was the proposed way forwards?
• What is the current status of the Parish Plan?

What is a Parish Plan?

The Local Government White Paper of 2006 made several key proposals that aim to strengthen local leadership.  It emphasises the responsibility of local public services providers to inform, consult and devolve whilst working in partnership with local communities. Parish Plans make an ideal basis for local authorities to develop community strategies.  Defra, DCLG and the Local Government Association believe that these proposals provide an great opportunity for parish planners to influence local authorities.

To see how the government describe a Parish Plan - click here. To see how it has been used to improve services - click here.

The Countryside Agency statement on Parish Plans says:

The Parish Plan was a vision of how you would like your town or village to be. For many communities it has been a stepping stone to applications for other grants.

The Plan could address any social, economic or environmental issues, such as:

• housing
• transport
• access to services ie. doctor's surgery
• local parks and green spaces
• play groups, childcare, afterschool clubs, etc.
• village halls or other meeting places
• support for local businesses
• building projects - ensuring designs and uses are compatible with existing buildings and their residents (village design statements)

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Fillongley Parish Plan Meetings

The following meetings were held - the minutes can be seen in the library.

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Original Questionnaire

The Questionnaire (to view, open FPP - Questionnaire.pdf) was of 63 questions, some with sub-sections and comments, and grouped by themes:

• Household,
  
• Individual,
  
• Employment Work & Education,
  
• Transport & TrafficHousing,
  
• Local Services,
  
• Local Government,
  
• Local Facilities & Organisations,
  
• Church.

The Questionnaire header was:

Introduction

 This questionnaire, was developed in order to obtain the views and opinions of the local community on behalf of Fillongley Parish Council. The questionnaire was circulated and returned in thesummer of 2005.

 The responses will be used to establish The Fillongley Parish Plan. This will enable the views of the people to be heard at local government level. The information will be collated to summarise the concerns of Fillongley’s residents. The Parish Plan will subsequently be reviewed on a rolling 5-year basis.

 Once the responses have been fully analysed, the results will be published. We will tell you where the completed Parish plan can be read.

 The questionnaire was anonymous.

 The first section, questions 1 – 11 will enable us to analyse the type of household, and the types of individuals that are responding to the questions. Any member of the household could have answered these first questions.

 The second section from question 12 onwards were to be completed by every member of household aged 12 and over. Each person always using the same column / letter, and identify any additional comment with their letter.

 Additional comments can be added on a separate piece of paper and attached if required, please write the question number against the comment.

 Local Businesses had a special section to complete.

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Initial Findings

The first results were collated and presented to the Parish Council in November 2004 then at an open meeting in the Village Hall on January 23rd, 2005

The initial findings presented were from the 299 completed questionnaires from the 612 households in the Parish.

From here

• ~700 people expressed their views on the subjects questioned
• 45,000 answers and 1,500 comments were recorded
• A high level of confidence in the coverage of the Parish has come from cross-reference with the 2001 census

The next steps are to form sub-groups to investigate the key themes uncovered in more detail - to define the Objectives for inclusion within the Parish Plan, then to investigate how this area can be progressed for the good of the community.

The full presentation can be found in the library in FPP - Questionnaire finding1 summary.pdf

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Formal Feedback of Full Findings

The full data collected from the Questionnaire was analysed by the Parish Plan team - the findings objectively collected and fed back to the Parish Council - at the Council Meeting of July 20th, 2006.

These detailed findings will form the basis for an action plan - based on agreed priorities for the future. The detailed documentation is in the links below - but the areas covered are:

* HOUSE HOLD RECYCLING AND ENERGY
* ROADS AND TRANSPORT
* HOUSING
* EMERGENCY SERVICES
* POSTAL SERVICES
* POST OFFICE SERVICES
* MEDICAL SERVICES
* LOCAL GOVERNMENT
* LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
* CHURCH

The full details of this can be found in the library in FPP - Questionnaire finding2 detail.pdf

It should be noted that the findings identified areas of concern or dissatisfaction - it did not necessarily identify a consensus on what to do about any given issue.

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Proposed Way Forward

The proposed way forward was presented to Fillongley Parish Council;, then at a public meeting on January 23rd, 2006.

The full details can view seen in the library under FPP - Rollout Programme.pdf(or click this link) - but in summary, the proposal was:

• Review those points that raised the most concern
• Qualify them against what was practical to influence
• Create a group to manage each key area to decide what action to take
• Identify and implement some quick wins
• Establish the key points as referral point for the Parish Council and as means of influencing 3rd parties (County Council, Service providers, etc)

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Current Status

Since the public meeting in January 2006, the means to take the Parish Plan forwards based on the above strategy has remained with Fillongley Parish Council.

The findings and feedback were used as a point of reference in some discussions and activities - and the formal Action Plan was published in December 2009. Click here to open.

Feedback on some aspects of the Parish Plan Findings, documented in October 2008, can be seen by opening the following link - click here.


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