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Survey results

Potley Lane and Pockeridge Road are situated near to Corsham and consist of a mixture of houses, flats, and bungalows. There is a community centre on the estate, where many activities are run – such as toddler groups, baby clinics, drop-in clinics, and arts projects, as well as one-off projects such as pantomime and summer sports projects. Recently a mural has been painted as part of the local Jigsaw Project, which is managed by Barnardo’s and co-funded by Westlea. Wiltshire Wildlife Trust in partnership with Westlea has organised and set up a community allotment which 20 residents are currently involved in. There is a regular bus service to Corsham that serves the estate.

Analysis of the survey data shows the following:

Positives

• Overall satisfaction with the neighbourhood has increased, from 49.9% to 54.1%
• Overall satisfaction with crime levels and community safety in the area has also increased from 49.4% to 51.3%
• Drug dealing is now less of a problem, moving from 45.2% to 54.1% and from a red light to amber.

Negatives

• There are more people on the estate suffering from a long-term illness or disability, which has changed from an amber light to red.
• Problems with large groups of youths and children have changed from 53.0% to 47.1% and from amber to red.
• Respondents are still dissatisfied with the facilities for children and young people and the play areas, down from 44.8% to 43.8% with the category remaining at red.

Even though overall concerns about the crime levels, community safety, and drug dealing are less of a problem now than previously, several residents commented on the community centre encouraging under-age drinking and causing a noise nuisance, this is reflected in the increase in problems with large groups of youths and children.

How we are going to make things better

Click here to find out how we are going to make things better in Potley & Pockeridge.

We surveyed a total of 140 properties and we received 51 completed surveys giving us a response rate of 36%

The overall response level for the Community Development survey gives a confidence interval of +/- 10.98 %. This means that we can be 95% certain that if 50% of people say that they are satisfied with their neighbourhood, the actual percentage would be between 60.98% and 39.02% if everyone had answered.

Click here to see the full results table.

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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