Little Waldingfield Community Engagement

Little Waldingfield held a very successful Community Engagement event on Friday evening and Saturday morning.  Around 50 members of the public came along and contributed comments about the village as it is today and how they would like to see it develop in the future.

The event was led by the Parish Council, for whom it is the first step in the creation of a Neighbourhood Plan, but I was able to persuade some of the participants to fill in the Babergh Community Engagement Feedback forms at the same time.  Many of the questions that were being asked by the Parish Council covered the same ground as our own survey.

The Parish Council will be issuing a report on its findings in due course, but I can reveal that there is a move to start a carpet bowls club in the village, and that there were also calls for a film club.

I am relieved to be able to report that many contributors were kind about the quality of their elected representatives, although there were one or two dissenters!

Parish Council Chairman, Brian Tora, explaining the process.

Coffee and Tea were available, and the event gave many villagers the opportunity to socialise with others and to meet neighbours old and new.

I sent in the completed forms to Babergh today, and I am pleased to say that the officers concerned with creating our new long term strategy are still accepting new submissions. Thus, although I have been rather slow in obtaining feedback from across Waldingfield Ward, none of it will go to waste.  The Council's new strategic priorities, which will we will share with Mid Suffolk District Council, will be finally formulated early in 2013.

The results!