Speaking to neighbours about the challenges of 2020, several people commented that it may be useful to establish a group to build community and support each other in the future. We imagined this could involve things such as:
- A group messenger / email list to share news.
- Re-establishing a Neighbourhood Watch group.
- Community clean-up and volunteering.
- Canvasing opinions to feedback to parish / local councils, highways, railway operators or campaign groups.
I thought this was an interesting idea (it’s something other local communities have done successfully) and offered to survey opinions from more people. Our aim was to gauge interest and gather suggestions from a wider group to help us understand how to proceed.
We collected views by paper and online survey, between 12th Feb and 25th March 2021 and the responses showed there was majority support for creating a group and investigating the creation of a Neighbourhood Watch group.
Station Road & Wey Bank Community 