Hill Rise

Survey results

Hill Rise is situated in Chippenham and consists of a mixture of houses, flats, and bungalows. The survey area included: Hill Rise, Heathfield, Moorlands, Northwood, Barrow Green, Birds Marsh View, Greenway Court, Greenway Lane, and Hill Corner Road

Hill Rise has a dedicated Neighbourhood Worker in the area. Westlea has also gained planning permission for ‘The Pod’ on Barrow Green, which acts as a base for many activities such as Footy4all, family activities run by the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, Chippenham library story telling sessions, Kandu arts project, and the Wiltshire Scrap Store. Westlea also has a partnership with the Youth Development Service, who provide Street Based Youth Work in the area. They also run the popular ‘Dreamscheme’ project whereby young people can earn points to go on activities by working in the community doing things such as tidying gardens.

Analysis of the survey data shows the following:

tick Positives

Satisfaction rates for the category relating to children and young people has increased overall from 37.2% to 53.8% - changing from a red light to amber.
Satisfaction rates for the overall category relating to children and young people has increased overall from 37.2% to 53.8% - changing from a red light to amber
Satisfaction with play areas has increased from 33.4% to 49.7% although it is still a red light.

tick Negatives

Crime and community safety is more of a problem now, changing from 54.0% to 50.8% and moving from an amber to a red light.
People are now more stressed – this has changed from 50.9% to 59.9% and from amber to a red light.
Noise is more of a problem, moving from 44.1% to 55.4% and from amber to red.

The positive results relating to the facilities for children and young people and the play areas, may be a result of the newly-installed ‘POD’, which is being used by many groups as a community centre, providing sport and other activities.

The negative results appear to indicate that more work with the Neighbourhood Policing Team may be useful. The increase in stress levels could be caused by the fear of crime, concerns about community safety, and noise nuisance. However stress may also be due to the general mood of the public at the moment with the ‘credit crunch’ and fear of job losses playing a part.

How we are going to make things better

Click here to find out how we are going to make things better in Hill Rise.

We surveyed a total of 302 properties and we received 103 completed surveys giving us a response rate of 34%.

The overall response level for the Community Development survey gives us a confidence interval of +/- 7.85%.
This means we can be 95% certain that if 50% of people say they are satisfied with their neighbourhood, the actual percentage would be between 42.15% and 57.85%, if everyone answered.

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Click here to see the full results table as a pdf.

Click here to see a summary of the resident’s comments.

Click here to see the original questionnaire.

Profile of respondents:

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