Binley Woods Parish Plan 1 Youth Survey Analysis
Binley Woods Parish Plan
Youth Survey (Ages 11-18) Analysis of Responses
Section A - About You
Question A1: How old are you?
22 teenagers responded to the Youth on-line questionnaire; 14 boys and 8 girls:
Question A2: Where do you live?
All bar two of the respondents live in the village, with one living in Coventry and one in Essex:
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Question A3: Do you attend school or college?
All bar two of the respondents attend school / college.
Question A4: If you go to school or college, which do you go to?
Question A5: How do you get to school or college?
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Question A6: What do you do in your spare time?
Just two respondents listed other pastimes:
iPod, Phone, Facebook, Skype, etc. By the way, what spare time?
Ice skating
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Section B – Activities in Binley Woods
Question B1: Which of the following do you do in the village and how could they be improved?
How could they be improved?
Youth Club:
If they had some children on their council
Cheaper more activities nicer helpers
Can’t think of anything
6.58 Club:
Food
More people
More people going there it would be a better atmosphere
Football Club:
Better footballs
Mini Rugby Club:
<no responses>
Tae Kwon Do:
More people
Dancing:
<no responses>
Question B2: What other organised activities would you like to do in Binley Woods?
If they had a football team for under 13's
Choir
Sports club, but not rugby or football
Start a parkour park and have a parkour teacher/group
Charity events, fayres etc.
I think that there are enough
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Question B3: Do you travel out of Binley Woods to attend clubs and activities?
Question B4: If you travel out of the village, where do you go and for which clubs / activities?
Where? For which clubs / activities? Where? For which clubs / activities?
Blue coat school Choir Ernsford grange school The racqueteers badminton club
Blue coat school Wind band Harris Rugby team
Blue coat school Worship band Harris school Netball
Cheylesmore Dancing Jesus army Church
City college Dancing Jesus army Youth group
Coventry Badminton Karate
Coventry Church Karate
Coventry D of E group Modern foreign languages class
Coventry Explorers Punjabi class
Coventry Scouts School
Coventry Young leader at a cub group Swimming
Coventry and North Warwickshire Tennis Club - Binley Road, Coventry
Tennis Wolston church Guides
Coventry town Drama, acting and singing lessons
Wolston scout hut Guiding
Coventry town Ice skating Wolston village hall Bryan school of dance
Dancing
Question B5: How do you get there? - Question B6: How would you prefer to get there?
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Section C – Facilities in Binley Woods
Question C1: How do you rate the following facilities in the village? How could they be improved?
The Recreation Ground (Big Park)
Clean the actual park
By having football goals
More benches
Bigger climbing frame area
New play equipment (e.g. a roundabout)
Less Dog Foul and more litter bins.
Smoother Path
Play Equipment
Clean them a bit more often
It could be painted to be better represented with the new skate park
Too much graffiti
More equipment and re-painted
New roundabout
It needs a roundabout
The swings need oiling and the swing's seats need replacing (in big park)
Skateboard Park
If they made it bigger more kids could use it
Make it bigger for more people to use at once
Make it a bigger skate park
More ramps
Village Green (Little Park)
Clean it a bit
Put more equipment in park
More swings
New play equipment
It needs a roundabout
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The Woods
If they had special people to collect up dog foul
Less cutting down of trees as it disrupts the dog walkers
More all-weather paths
Made cleaner in terms of litter and waste.
Put a parkour park in
Village Hall
Make it Bigger and have more activities there (eg art club etc).
Pavilion
More activities for older children.
School Buildings
Changing rooms need attention
Expand on the building to fit more children in
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Youth Club Building
Need new pool table
More equipment so more people will come
It is big enough
Library Building
Be knocked down and re-built into another library but a more modern structure
Turned into something nice for residents to use, not just a community centre.
We don't have one anymore!
We haven't got one anymore!
I think it was closed
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Question C1: Should this type of facility continue to be made available for future generations to enjoy?
Question C2: What other facilities would you like to have in Binley Woods?
Swimming Pool!!! (Maybe where the library is?)
Dance facilities
None it's already got everything
Bus shelter at the bus stop on the same side of the road as the car wash. The bus stop nearest the car wash.
The shops
A medical surgery and proper bus shelters.
A country club.
A local gym
I think that if the library is closed it should open.
Sports gym for my age group so that I can play sport
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Section D – Living in Binley Woods
Question D1: Would you like to be more involved in making decisions about Binley Woods (for example, as a member of a Youth Forum or Youth Council)?
Question D2: Should there be dog warden patrols to encourage dog owners to pick up the foul after their pets?
Question D3: Should dog owners who do not pick up the foul after their pets be fined?
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Question D4: Dogs are supposed to be kept on leads in the Recreation Ground, including the Back Field. Should this rule be enforced?
Question D5: Should there be more dog litter bins in the village?
Where should dog litter bins be put?
By the school, parks and woods
Where people can see
In the park and wood entrances and on Rugby Road
On the Rugby road, near the entrance to the bridleway.
On lampposts
On the paths so people who walk their dogs on the path have easy access to bins
The corner of Woodlands Road and Heather Road.
At the end of streets
By the first entrance of the bridal way.
On lampposts on the main road and more in both parks
Along grass verges by the parks and shops etc.
One on every road (e.g. On a lamp post).
One on nearly every road.
On the back field of the big park and by the pavilion
Motley in/by parks
Evenly around the park.
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Question D6: Should there be more litter bins in the village?
Where should litter bins be put?
Park, woods and the school
Where people can see them
On lampposts
At crossroads
Back field near the skate park
By the shops and in both parks
On every road.
One on every road.
On the back field and along some of the streets
By the side of road
End of roads
Question D7: Would you be prepared to join a monthly litter-pick around the village?
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Question D8: Is graffiti a problem for you and your family in the village?
Question D9: There is a graffiti wall in the Back Field. Should there be more graffiti walls in the village?
Where should graffiti walls be put?
If not rude where people can see them
In the little park
Another one on the back field of the recreation ground
If not rude ,where everyone can see them
Question D10: Do you feel safe in Binley Woods?
If you didn’t answer ‘Yes’, what could be done to make you feel safer?
Police patrols, wardens for people to talk to often and CCTV.
Prevent the amount of burglaries.
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Question D11: Are any of the following a problem for you or your family in the village, and if you answer ‘Yes’ where are the problems?
Crossing the Road
On the Rugby road at 7:40 - 7:45 (ish) in the morning on the way to the bus stop
Rugby road in the morning when I am trying to get to the bus stop
People driving on the wrong side of the road
On Rugby Road just of Ferndale. There should be crossing lights as I need to get to the bus stop which takes me to school.
Speeding Traffic
Rugby road
Around the corner of Ferndale and Craven Avenue
All roads that led to the main road
Main road ( rugby road)
Birchwood road
Uneven Pavements
On the Rugby road between Ferndale road and Brandon (far side)
Heather Road and Ferndale Road
People are finding hard to get around on bikes or scooters with potholes and cracks on the road and pavement
Craven avenue
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Question D12: Should something be done to slow down the traffic (such as speed bumps)?
Question D13: Should the police carry out more speed checks around the village?
Question D14: Should there be a 20mph speed limit on all roads in the village except Rugby Road?
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Question D15: Should there be more pedestrian crossings in the village?
Where should zebra crossings be put?
On the Rugby road between Ferndale road and the layby
On the main road.
Rugby road
On woodlands
Near the Roseycombe bus stop
The Rugby Road between Heather Road and Ferndale Road.
On the rugby road near to the Roseycombe
By the Rosie Comb for school children going to the bus stop.
By the shops, parks and schools, where there are lots of kids,
One on Rugby Road just off Ferndale Road.
By the busy roads
Near the school
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Section E - And Finally…
Question E1: How would you describe Binley Woods to a stranger?
Nice place to live, for adults, pensioners, teenagers and children alike. It is a very close community and everyone is always willing to help you. There are quite a variety of facilities and activities that go on throughout the week.
A very nice place with plenty of equipment
A very nice place
A small village with quite a few facilities including a post office, pub and woods.
Nice
A nice quiet village with a few convenient shops and parks to play at
A pleasant, friendly community with good facilities.
Quiet, with nothing much to do
It is a wonderful place to live great activities and a fun place to live with a range of activities and ages the environment is our main highlight of the village
A relatively quiet, nice village that is kept tidy.
A nice place to settle down
Country air and rural
A small, quaint village full of all the amenities you may need, and more!
A nice small community.
A nice place with pretty scenery
Lovely, quiet village with beautiful woods.
Question E2: Have you any other comments you would like to make?
Keep the fields and farms!!!!!!! (The horses are cute...)
I really like living in Binley Woods! It could easily be a tourist attraction.
Binley woods is a very nice place
