Comments are still dribbling in from the WivKids survey, some with great expectations! Particularly charming was one return that pleaded for a better noise from ice cream vans…. DISCERNING YOUNGSTERS, that’s what we’ve got!
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Wet behind the Ears in Wiv – if only…
The attendance graph of 6th July Public consultation day showed up a significant gap: an almost complete absence of any under-18s. So we took the opportunity of WivKids event last Saturday to talk to 60+ of them – and what…
Monkey business
Any Wivenhoe residents who couldn’t come to the Open Day on 6 July can now take part in an on-line SurveyMonkey questionnaire that replicates the Open Day opportunity. On 6 July we asked people to write comments on post-it notes…
WivPlan @ WivKids
We’ll have a presence on the KGV on Saturday 20 July, with a nifty little questionnaire for our young residents. ARE WE LOOKING for more people to help? (do bears…) If you spent one hour with a clip board on…
After the first course
Over 300 post-it notes were stuck on the wall sheets at the Open Day, some with more than one comment on them, and all comments have now been collated. What’s the point of all this collating? It’s so that a…
Sticky collation
Thursday 11 July, almost two hours into collating the comments left on the Open Day, and they’re only half-way through!
Forgot about the Open Day?
If you couldn’t come to the Open Day you can still tell us any comments you would have wanted to make. What’s good about Wivenhoe, what isn’t, and what would it need by 2028?
Support for neighbourhood planning
On July 9 2013, Don Foster, Minister for Communities, announced a £4.3m package of support for neighbourhoods to take their future into their own hands. This follows a successful year-long pilot programme, which saw neighbourhoods across the country working out…
Open Day
150 people came to the Loveless Hall on Saturday 6 July for the first community consultation event. All comments will be collated on Thursday 10 July. When the various Topics emerge from the sift, further work on these will be…