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This page will have the latest information for our organisation. We will update the page each month.  News items will also be posted here.

New items will appear in a yellow background for a period of approximately one calendar month from release date.

October 2008 - Environment Friendly

Saving energy in the home


South End Road Traffic Survey Results
July 2007 - Traffic Monitoring
Find the Full results of the recent South End Road survey below. Some of these are large MS Excel files ... See summary below for quick stats ...

Wigmores Eastbound Lane 2

Wigmores Westbound Lane 1

Terestyn Eastbound Lane 2

Terestyn Westbound Lane 1

Find an explanation of the 85th Percentile pertinent to traffic speed limits and safety at:

85th Percentile explained

Find the Summary results of the recent South End Road survey below.
Wigmores Eastbound Lane 2

Wigmores Westbound Lane 1

Terestyn Eastbound Lane 2

Terestyn Westbound Lane 1

June 2007
June 27th 2007
Public Meeting at the Bradfield Village Hall @ 8pm. This meeting will discuss the findings from all the analyses of the questionnaires - Adult, Youth and Business. Please see the link below for details of the meeting's structure.

Bradfield Parish Plan Public Meeting

Parish Plan Process - Update 2007
May 2007
We've updated the Parish Plan Process. Please click on the link below to see what's involved in the entire proccess.

Parish Plan Process

May Fayre 2007
May 7th 2007
This year's May Fayre once again drew large crowds despite the early downpours and wind!. The Parish Plan working group had a stand once again and photos of this will follow very shortly.

Quick Wins
May 2007 - Traffic Monitoring
We have just deployed a traffic monitoring project along the South End Road as this was one of the primary concerns from the analysis of the questionnaire. This involves monitoring the speed and frequency along the South End road for a period of 7 days by 24 hours to give us an accurate analysis. More roads will be monitored in the very near future.

May 2007 - Village Rename
The village of (Southend Bradfield, Southend, Bradfield Southend) has been renamed by democratic process to Bradfield Southend. Signs will change accordingly in time to reflect the name Bradfield Southend and will therefore be consistent. Please see link below on "What's in a name?".

May 2007 - Youth Club
There is keen interest to restart the Bradfield Youth Club and this is being supported and investigated with a view to doing so as soon as possible.

Bradfield College
May 2007 - Traffic Monitoring
Year 9s in Bradfield College undertook a study to monitor traffic and see how they could suggest impovements to pedestrian safety around the college in particular during the darker Winter months. The boys involved then made a presentation to some members of the Bradfield Parish Plan working party. The working party members were very impressed with the maturity shown in these presentations and some of the suggestions made were very sensible. These presentations are in Microsoft Powerpoint, so press page down or page up to advance your way through the presentations. Please find the presentations below by clicking on the links:

Eliot's traffic presentation

Bertie's traffic presentation

Business Questionnaire
May 2007 We have just published the Bradfield Business Questionnaire. This will be distributed to all businesses in the parish during May 2007. Analysis will follow shortly afterwards. Click on the link below to view the Business Questionnaire.

Bradfield Parish Plan Business Questionnaire


Adult Questionnaire Subset Results at May Fayre
May 2007 We published a subset of the Analyses at the May Fayre. These are detailed in the links below:

What more can be done for a Clean and Tidy parish?
What are the most serious traffic problems?
What Additional Recycling would you like to see?
Would you support the building of a new village hall?
Would you like street lighting?
Which of the following types of development would be acceptable within the parish?
Do you have concerns about the condition and maintenance of footpaths?
Which of the following types of Police presence are important to you?
Which of the following traffic calming measures do you think are most needed?

Youth Questionnaire Subset Results at May Fayre
May 2007 We published a subset of the Youth Analyses at the May Fayre. These are detailed in the links below:

What facilities do you use?
How old are You?
Are you Male or Female?
Do you do any of the following activities for pocket money?

Pre Launch Leaflet
May 2007 We have published a Pre-Launch leaflet detailing the core topics for inclusion in the completed Parish Plan document. Data Analysis is being compiled at present and will be ready before the public meeting on June 23rd. We presented some top line anaylses for the Bradfield May Fayre.

Bradfield Parish Plan Pre Launch Leaflet

Analysis Stage
March 2007 ALL questionnaires were collected by our fantastic volunteers who gave up their time to ensure we covered off everybody, or at least as many as they could. Analysis should be ready for end of April 2007. We hope to present some analysis for the May Fayre.

What's in a Name?
January 2007. Finally we have the analysis in from the questionnaires for the village name of Southend within Bradfield. Options were Bradfield, Bradfield Southend, Southend Bradfield, or the current Southend. Bradfield Southend was chosen by a small margin over Southend Bradfield. Neither Bradfield nor Southend polled many votes.

BSD Parish Plan Household Questionnaire
November 2006 - It's finally here! You should have had a copy delivered to your door already. Please fill it in and await collection by your dsitributor/collector. Click on the link below to see the Adult or Youth questionnaire.

BSD Parish Plan Questionnaire (Adult)

BSD Parish Plan Questionnaire (Youth)

Bradfield PA Charity Clay Shoot
15th October 2006 at Bradfield College

Bradfield PA Charity Clay Shoot

Don't miss the concert at St Denys - Music and Prose
30th September @ 7:30pm

St Denys Music and Prose

Now that's Magic! 
(Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside)
Check out this excellent site at:
 

New - Volunteers required for distribution and collection of parish questionnaires.  Prize draw for questionnaire responses and separate prize draw for distributors/collectors.  See link below for details.

Volunteers required

New! - Calendar with download and reminder functionality.  Export dates of events to your favourite Calendar software.
 
Click on Calendar link below.

New Calendar of Events

Bradfield Work House
Find out about the Work House at Bradfield below:
 
Visit Our new Blog Site
 
Try out a fully interactive digital map ...

Check out the Historical British Censuses at:
Check out the intriguing Parish History entitled "A Vision of Bradfield and Stanford Dingley" at:

 
Parish Plan Update
Click on the link below to get an update on the Parish Plan progress.

Stanford Dingley Update

See our two new features by clicking on them below.  This also allows interaction within the maps and now satellite overlay and hybrid settings.  There is a link for each parish.

Bradfield Interactive

Stanford Dingley Interactive

Stanford Dingley Interactive

Click on the image to see an example of Stanford Dingley Interactive map.

Click on the image below to see an example of using Google Directions from the Interactive Map.

Example of Google Directions

Click on the link below to try our example online survey.  This survey is just a small example of an online survey, in this case pertaining to Facilities and Services.

 
See our Parish in Pictures Collection.  Click on the link below.
Click on the "View as Slideshow".
Spring 2006 Membership Newsletter

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As soon as the Spring 2006 issue of our newsletter is complete, it will be added to this section here. Each month the newsletter will include latest news, interesting facts, upcoming events, and member names.

We are always looking for new ideas and topics for the monthly newsletter. If you have an idea or would be interested in writing an article, please let us know at bsd-parishplan@hotmail.co.uk

We may make past editions of the newsletter available for download.

 
Any Thoughts or Ideas? bsd-parishplan@hotmail.co.uk
 
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