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OUR PARISH – OUR LIVES!

Traffic in the parish of Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle - Survey
of parishioners

Readers will recall that, in September, a survey of parishioners was launched,
seeking views on a range of traffic related issues. After some six weeks, we have
closed the survey, to which over 90 responses have been received, expressing a
range of views. We are most appreciative of all who helped to make the survey
possible and of everyone who has taken part in it. Given the scale of response, it
is fair to say that we have gained an excellent understanding of how parishioners
feel about traffic matters generally.
 Some 86% of respondents feel that slowing down traffic would be
beneficial, 10% disagree and 4% don’t know.
 72% believe that more warning signs would be good, 24% disagree and
here also 4% elected for the ‘don’t know’ option.

 28 residents have expressed interest in joining a Community Speed Watch
scheme.
church in Wool to see Experience
 82% want speed limits reduced in one or more areas of the parish, in Harvest. We then moved outside to
particular in Affpuddle, Briantspuddle and Throop. the fire pit in Wool first school. The
focus we had sat around the fire pit
 Virtually all respondents (including some who don’t feel that there is a was creation. After thinking about all
general need for slowing down) favour one or more additional traffic the different ways we can harvest
calming measure, with extending the areas covered by speed limits and our wonderful world also how we can
use of Speed Indicator Devices (SIDs) being most favored. protect it and look after it. We made

 Support for a parish meeting to discuss the survey findings is limited: other messy, stick bird feeders and toasted
than Community Speed Watch training, we don’t propose to take this marshmallows over the fire.
further. In October, messy church was
 Miscellaneous comments have been generally very helpful, containing a celebrating bible Sunday. We
number of positive ideas, although one respondent commented that it all wanted to help our young people
sounds a bit like ‘big brother’! start to understand the bible. There
are 66 books in the bible and a lot of
 A more detailed survey analysis will be available on the community them are difficult to understand. We
website. split it bible into 5 sections to make it
easier. The first was the Laws we

Conclusions looked at Moses and the 10
commandments, the young people
It is clear that a substantial majority of respondents believe that there are traffic painted a law on a rock and
decorated it. The next sections of the
bible we looked at was the poetry
Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle website: www.briantspuddle.info section we picked Psalms 23 ‘The lord

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