Journa[ofRuraISludles, Vcl 1, No 1, pp 87-95,1985 Pnnted In Great Bmam 0743-0167/85 S3 00 + 00 ------ Pergamon Press Ltd Research Note The Distribution of Fixed, Mobile, and Delivery Services in Rural Britain Malcolm J Moseley and John Packman School of Environmental SCIences, UnIversity of East Anglia, U K IntroductIon The dechne of servIces m rural Bntam has excIted consIderable mterest m recent years, and there has been no shortage of mventones of provIsIon with ID smgle counties The Standmg Conference of Rural Commumty Councils (1978) pulled together the eVIdence of SIX county surveys m South-West En- gland, and Packman and Wallace (1982) hst a further dozen of this kmd, generally undertaken by county planmng departments as part of their struc- ture plannmg exercises The present paper provIdes, for the first tIme, a natIOnal perspective, and It does so for a broader spectrum of servIces than IS commonly the case It does not attempt to chart change over time Much less does It seek [0 explam changes that have occurred (On the dynamiCs of rural servIce ratIOnal- IsatIOn see Cloke, 1979, 1983) Rather It provides a snapshot of the sItuation m 1982 We consider a number of fIxed-locatIOn, mobile and delivery ser- vIces and relate their presence or absence m several thousand settlements to a number of attnbutes of those settlements This exercise was undertaken as part of the Mobtle ServIces m Rural Areas research proJect, whose fmal report was pubhshed as Moseley and Packman (1983) Our sources of data were the local branches of the Women's Institute (WI) - a federation of largely vtllage and small town based associatIOns for women In England and Wales there are 9260 branches, ID Scotland there are 1183 All 10,443 receIVed our one-page questIOnnaire ID August 1982 By the end of the year, 6100 rep"es had been recem,d, a response rate of 584% (61 2% ID '- 87 England and Wales, 362% m Scotland) ThiS IS a good rate of response for a postal survey, m whIch no remmders were sent out, and doubtless reflects the level of mterest m the subject matter, the breVIty of the questIOnnaIre, and the mforrnal 'seal of approval' of headquarters staff who dlstnbuted the questlOnnalre for us Response rates were generally 50-70% throughout EngJand and Wales, bemg espeCIally high m the south and east, but rather lower m Scotland No obvIOUS response b,as IS apparent - certamly a good number of replies were receIved not Just from each county, but also from each settlement size (Table 1) And while the smallest VIllages are less hkely to be able to sustam a branch of the WI and therefore more hkely to be underrepresented m the totahty of the rephes receIved, It seems unhkely that rephes for each sIze category are senously unrepresentative of that partIcular category The scope of the questionnaire The questlonnalfe (AppendIX 1) was SImple, bnef and largely self explanatory We sought mforrnatlOn on (I) the eXIStence of servIces, whether - 'fixed' (most of questIOn 6) - 'mobile' (some of question 6, plus quesllon 7) - 'dehvery' (questIon 8 and, for mtlk, quesllon 9) (11) pOSSIble 'explanatory' factors, namely - populatIOn sIZe (questIOn 4) - proximIty to other servIce centres (quesllon 5) UK Data Archive Study Number 2344 - Mobile Services in Rural Areas, 1982
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Journa[ofRuraISludles, Vcl 1, No 1, pp 87-95,1985 Pnnted In Great Bmam
0743-0167/85 S3 00 + 00 -----Pergamon Press Ltd
Research Note
The Distribution of Fixed, Mobile, and Delivery Services
in Rural Britain
Malcolm J Moseley and John Packman School of Environmental SCIences, UnIversity of East Anglia, U K
IntroductIon
The dechne of servIces m rural Bntam has excIted consIderable mterest m recent years, and there has been no shortage of mventones of provIsIon with ID
smgle counties The Standmg Conference of Rural Commumty Councils (1978) pulled together the eVIdence of SIX county surveys m South-West England, and Packman and Wallace (1982) hst a further dozen of this kmd, generally undertaken by county planmng departments as part of their structure plannmg exercises
The present paper provIdes, for the first tIme, a natIOnal perspective, and It does so for a broader spectrum of servIces than IS commonly the case It does not attempt to chart change over time Much less does It seek [0 explam changes that have occurred (On the dynamiCs of rural servIce ratIOnalIsatIOn see Cloke, 1979, 1983) Rather It provides a snapshot of the sItuation m 1982 We consider a number of fIxed-locatIOn, mobile and delivery servIces and relate their presence or absence m several thousand settlements to a number of attnbutes of those settlements This exercise was undertaken as part of the Mobtle ServIces m Rural Areas research proJect, whose fmal report was pubhshed as Moseley and Packman (1983)
Our sources of data were the local branches of the Women's Institute (WI) - a federation of largely vtllage and small town based associatIOns for women In England and Wales there are 9260 branches, ID Scotland there are 1183 All 10,443 receIVed our one-page questIOnnaire ID August 1982
By the end of the year, 6100 rep"es had been recem,d, a response rate of 584% (61 2% ID
'-
87
England and Wales, 362% m Scotland) ThiS IS a good rate of response for a postal survey, m whIch no remmders were sent out, and doubtless reflects the level of mterest m the subject matter, the breVIty of the questIOnnaIre, and the mforrnal 'seal of approval' of headquarters staff who dlstnbuted the questlOnnalre for us
Response rates were generally 50-70% throughout EngJand and Wales, bemg espeCIally high m the south and east, but rather lower m Scotland No obvIOUS response b,as IS apparent - certamly a good number of replies were receIved not Just from each county, but also from each settlement size (Table 1) And while the smallest VIllages are less hkely to be able to sustam a branch of the WI and therefore more hkely to be underrepresented m the totahty of the rephes receIved, It seems unhkely that rephes for each sIze category are senously unrepresentative of that partIcular category
The scope of the questionnaire
The questlonnalfe (AppendIX 1) was SImple, bnef and largely self explanatory We sought mforrnatlOn on
(I) the eXIStence of servIces, whether - 'fixed' (most of questIOn 6) - 'mobile' (some of question 6, plus quesllon
7) - 'dehvery' (questIon 8 and, for mtlk,
quesllon 9) (11) pOSSIble 'explanatory' factors, namely
- populatIOn sIZe (questIOn 4) - proximIty to other servIce centres
(quesllon 5)
UK Data Archive Study Number 2344 - Mobile Services in Rural Areas, 1982
Note The 'Ruralset' excludes responses from eVidently urban or suburban locatIOns the precise defimtlon IS given 10 the text
- natIOnal locatIOn (or 'county', queslIon 2) - the eXIstence of other servIces locally - as
descnbed 10 (I) above
(We also lOcluded, as queslIon 10, a queslIon on the 'perceIved need' for servIces The results are not consIdered 10 the present paper)
Comments on the precIse wordlOg of the questIOns wIll be made 10 approprIate sectIOns of thIS report, but some prelImlOary observalIons are appropnate FIrSt, we asked respondents to relate theIr rephes to a specIfIc Village or town rather than to the whole area covered by the appropnate WI - such areas somelImes coverIng several settlements Second, we had to hope that respondents would know, broadly, the sIZe of populatIOn of the named settlement as It was beyond our resources to check thIS ThIrd, our chOIce of a 'bank open 5 days per week' and a 'Woolworth store' as mdlcatIve of service centres whose distance away was requested, was not taken hghtly Each IS unambIguous, each enJoys more or less natIonal coverage, and each had been used m a nalIonwlde study of the BrIlISh urban hIerarchy (SmIth, 1968) to denote 'local centre' status Our pdot studIes suggested that thIS was better than askmg for dIstance to 'a major retad store' or a 'local service centre' Fourth, the reader's attention IS
drawn to the precIse wordmg of questIons 7 and 8, and to the thorny dlstmctlon between mobIles and delIvery servIces thereby ImplIed
Except for wntmg m the name of the settlement and the county, and for glvmg m mdes the dIstance to a bank and a Woolworth store, each answer reqUIred sImply a 'tick' or the space left blank Both the completIOn and the subsequent codmg of the queslIonnalre for computer analYSIS were thereby kept very sImple
'Ruralset' - the truly rural settlements
GIven our mterest In the CIrcumstances of rural Bntam, we decIded to omIt from analYSIS responses relatmg to places whIch were clearly urban or suburban 10 nature The rules of thumb whIch were applIed mvolved excludmg all settlements WIth over 5000 lOhabltants, and also those eIther With a Woolworth store or less than three mdes from one (We also avoIded the double-countlOg of places whIch had both 'daylIme' and 'evemng' branches of the WI ) ThIS reduced the sIze of sample to 4752 thIS we termed the 'Ruralset' (See Table 1 above for the exclUSIons thereby lOvolved )
Before proceedmg to look at the eVIdence on service provIsIon, we tabulate how many settlements m 'Ruralset' fall IOta the vanous bands of populatIon sIze and of dIstance from a bank (Table 2)
The avaIlability of fixed serVICes
InformalIon on ten 'fIxed servIces' was sought m the survey The proportIon of settlements m 'Ruralset' havmg these servIces IS as follows
Post offIce General foodshop Dady bus servIce School Playgroup Butcher Permanent doctor's surgery Baker's shop Permanent hbrary Bank
86% 80% 78% 73% 63% 34% 22% 21% 14% 10%
Not surpnslOgly, populalIon SIze IS the key factor underlylOg thIS dlstnbulIon, as FIg 1 makes plam It
Research Note 89
Table 2 Number of settlements ID 'Ruralset' by population sIZe and distance from a bank
DIstance from a bank (mdes) Population Bank less than 5
Mlssmg cases 119 (2 5%) "The slight discrepancy with Table 1 reflects those few places for which distance from a bank was not speCIfied
00
80
70
00
40
30
20
'0
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1/ I I / h'
.~ j / .# ~--., / ... ~,. ....... -
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0-2-40 250-040g 500-740 750-g00 '000-4000
Population
Figure 1 The eXistence of fixed services by population size of settlement
shows, for Instance, that of the smallest vIllages, about 60% have a post offIce, 35% a school and fewer than 20% a playgroup Of the large vIllages! small towns (1000-4999 InhabItants) over 90% have each of these servIces The graph also suggests very sharp nses In frequency In the lower population range for most servIces - but not for butchers, surgenes, bakers and hbranes whIch become common only In the last SIze-band
ThIS analySIs can be taken a step further by examInIng how many of a set of mne fIxed servIces
(all those hsted above, mInUS the daIly bus servIce) are enjoyed by settlements of dIfferent sorts Table 3 sets out the mean number present, by settlement sIZe and dIStance from a bank What emerges IS that wIth growIng dIStance from an urban centre (whIch the bank IS taken to represent) there IS an mcreased probablhty of fixed servIce prOVISIon ThIS occurs IrrespectIve of the sIze of the settlement ltself for example, of VIllages m the 500-749 range, those close to an urban centre mIght expect to have about three of the fIxed sefVIces, those over five mIles away mIght expect to have four or more However, the table clearly shows that populatIOn SIze IS a much more Important determmant the servIce endowment nses by about four umts, across the range of population sIzes
The avaIlabilIty of mobIle services
We requested mformatlon on mne mobIle servIces The proportIon of settlements m 'Ruralset' havmg these servIces was as follows
MobIle hbrary Mobile lce~cream van MobIle wet fish MobIle greengrocer MobIle butcher MobIle fish & chIps MobIle general grocer Playbus Doctor's branch surgery
86% 67% 61% 39% 34% 24% 24%
1% 17%
The doctor's branch surgery, was stnctly a 'penpatehe' service mvolvmg the service provIder VIsltmg a senes of fIXed-locatIOn outlets
The relatIonshIp between the provISIOn of these servIces, and population sIZe (FIg 2), IS much less straIghtforward than m the case of fIXed servIces It would be temptmg to hypotheSIse that mobIles are more common m the smallest settlements, to com-
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Table 3 Mean number of fixed services by populatton size and distance from a bank for 'Ruralset' (maxtmum = 9)
Distance from a bank (mdes)
5 or more 3-49 3 or less Bank present
• Inslgruficant
.. of •• nean.-.t. wlthlhl~.
100
80
70
0-249
19 1 6 1 3 •
MobIe ... II.n .... / ,.------_ .... 80 , .,r-
,'/ 50 .... " .... I
40
10
/ /
250-499
.............
-
32 25 22 •
0-24; 250-4gg 500-7"'; 75G-'"ilQ 100Q-4QgQ
PopJatlon
Figure 2 The eXistence of mobIle servlce8 by populatton size of settlement
pensate for the sparseness there of fixed servIce proVISIon ThIS IS really true only m the case of mobile hbranes, a pubhc service planned with thIS cntenon very much m mmd OtherwISe only the mobile butcher and mobile general grocer are more common m the smaller rather than larger settlements - and of even the smallest settlements (0-249) only 30-40% have these two services What IS more common - as the graph clearly shows - IS for the provISIon of mobiles to relate poslllvely to populatIOn SIze m short, the bigger places not only have better 'fixed' provISIOn, they also have better 'mobile provISIon' (except m the case of mobile hbranes, grocers and butchers as already explamed)
We may also ask how many of the mne mobiles VISit
Population size 500-749 750-999 1000-4999
42 48 60 36 4 1 55 3 1 37 52 • 86
settlements of different sIZes and remoteness Table 4 proVides the answer
There IS a clear tendency, m the case of all 'remoteness categones', for mobIle servIce prOVISion
to nse With population sIZe But .remoteness too plays a part generally the more remote settlements (I e the top row of Table 4) are better served thIS appears true of all SIze-bands except perhaps the very smallest (COlumn one)
We now conSIder mobIle shops In a httle more det .. 1 If we add together three kmds of mobile shop, namely mobile general grocer, greengrocer and butcher, It IS useful to conSIder the pattern emerg-109 Settlements can score 0, 1, 2 or 3 on thIS measure and we may plot mean scores agamst vanous other factors (Table 5)
Table 5 m fact confirms what has been suggested ID
prevIous paragraphs and m Fig 2 - remoteness does confer a somewhat greater hkehhood of mobile shop proVISIon, but population SIZe has a rather mdetermlnate effect Certamly, small SIze alone, and the related dlSeconomles of running conventional village shops, do not of themselves stimulate mobile shop proVISion For the mobile shop operator too, populatIOn threshold sIZe seems also to play a part Figure 3 portrays, by county, the proportion of settlements havmg at least One of these three types of mobIle shop South-East England seems relatively poorly served The East Midlands, the North, the South-West and parts of Wales and Scotland seem best served by mobile shops
The final report of the research proJect, referred to earher (Moseley and Packman, 1983), dIScusses the situatIOn for each mobile service m turn, but Table 6 summanses the pOSItion It suggests that wet fISh, fISh and chips, greengrocery and" especIally, ICecream are essentially 'urban' m thelf dlStnbutlons, while mobile hbranes, general grocery and butchery favour smaller and remoter settlements But all of thiS IS relative specialIst mobIle services such as lcecream and wetflSh are more common absolutely ID
rural areas than are greengrocers and general grocers
Research Note 91
Table 4 Mean number of mobIle 5elVICeS by population size and distance from a bank for 'Ruralset' (maXImum = 9)
Distance from a PopulatIOn Size bank (mIles) 0-249 250-499 500-749 750-999 1000-4999
5 or more 30 35 38 39 38 3-49 28 3 1 34 37 37 3 or less 29 29 34 31 34 Bank present " " 29
• Inslgmficant
Table S Mean number of dIfferent mobIle shops by remoteness and by populatIOn size for 'Ruralset' (maximum = 3)
Distance to a bank (mIles)
Distance to a Woolworth store
(mIles) PopulatIon
size of settlement
Bank present Less than 3 3-49 5 or more
082 089 093 109
Cl Cl --*
«0%
3-49 5-69 7-99 10+
4Q. 1 - 8O'ICo
1501-~
80."
exmDadfrcm --
Figure J The dlstnbutlon of mobile shops the percentage of a county's rural settlements havmg at least one mobile
shop (see text)
085 092 105 107
0-249 250-499 500-749 750-999
1000-4999
lOO 098 103 097 092
The availabIlity of dehvery servIces
We sought mformalton on seven 'dehvery servtces' - I e those mvolvmg the dlStnbulton of goods or servtces to the customer's home Of the settlements m 'Ruralse!', the followmg proportIOns enjoyed these servtces
Coal Milk" Newspapers Meals-on-wheels Bread Meat Paraffm "at least every other day
99% 98% 85% 67% 64% 59% 31%
The graph shown m 'Fig 4 bnngs out a number of sahent pomts about the role of settlement Size m thIS respect Coal dehvery IS almost ubtqUltous - settlement sIze appeanng vtrtually trrelevant m thiS case, In most of the other cases (milk, newspapers, mealson-wheels, paraffin) there IS a pOSItive reialtonshlp between the probablhty of the service bemg available, and the populalton of the settlement ThIS IS parltcularly so m the case of meals-on-wheels which appears largely an urban servIce, volunteers bemg presumably more avaIlable In the towns But bread dehvery and meat dehvery show a dtfferent pattern these services are most common m the 'mtddle range' of settlements (say, 250-1000 mhabltants) which are neither so tmy as to render dehvery
92 Malcolm J Moseley and John Packman
Table 6 The frequency of mobIles, related to settlement Size, remoteness and regIOnal dlstnbutlOn for 'Ruralset'
Mobile
General grocer Butcher Greengrocer Wet fish Fish and chips Ice-cream Library
Figure 4 The eXistence of delIvery services by population size of settlement
thoroughly uneconOmic nor suffiCiently large to support a butcher or breadshop of the" own
The pattern of mzlk debvery IS taken further 10 Fig 5 There clearly IS a relatIOnship With populatton Size, but It IS stnkmg that even amongst the very smallest Villages, 95% have at least an 'every other day' service
In short, 'dehvery services' generally penetrate further IOta rural Bntam than do 'mobile services' ThiS, of course, IS even more true If we mclude mall deltvery which, bemg truly ubiqUitous, was not covered 10 our survey
But one caveat should be made Deltvery services appear to penetrate less 10 rural Scotland than south of the border For all seven deltvered services, Scotland had the lowest proportIOn of settlements served (except for milk, 10 which case Wales was slightly less well served) The percentage figures for Scotland, (correspondmg With those set out above for Great Bntam as a whole), were coal 96%, milk 69%, newspapers 52%, meals-an-wheels 48%, bread 30%, meat 37%, paraffm 19%
Fixed, mobile and delivery services some reiallonshlps
To a certam extent, 'fixed', mobile and delivery services are complements and alternallves This IS certamly true of the library service but It IS less true m the pnvate sector where, as we have seen, a suffiCient market threshold IS often a necessary condition for moblle/dehvery as well as fixed service prOVISion
Tables 7-10 are mstructlve 10 thIS respect The columns marked 'neither' or 'none' mdlcate the proportion of settlements where mobile, peripatetic or delivery servIces do not compensate for the absence of fixed proVISion (But, of course, 10 the case of meat and bread - see Tables 8 and 9 - a general foodstore may well 10 part fill thIS gap) These proportIOns are frequently substantial 10 the case of the smaller Villages and are an mdex of servlce-depnvatlon for those who live there Without cars
The mformatlOn on fued servIces reveals major gaps m provISIOn, espectally ID the smaller Villages Of settlements with under 500 IDhabltants, over half lack a hbrary, a breadshop, a doctor's surgery, a butcher, a playgroup, a school Over a quarter lack a dally bus service, a post office, a general foodshop
Prima faCIe, thIS would appear to offer conSiderable scope for the operators of mobIle and del,very services m the smaller settlements But, with the exceplion of mobile hbranes, mllk dehvery, coal dehvery, and, to a lesser extent, newspaper and bread dehvery, such services are uncommon ID such places Indeed, 10 most cases the provISion of mobile and delivery services mcreases with settlement Size, albeit sometimes tapenng off when the small town (1000+) category IS reached In short, the force of market thresholds affects mobile and dehvery services Just as It affects fixed services ThIS IS true unless there IS a clear pubhc pohcy commitment to the contrary (mobile hbranes) or else a deep-seated consumer reSistance to collectlOg the commodity from a store - based, one Imagines, on the tradition of dally doorstep dehvery (milk and, to a lesser extent, newspapers) or else on the bulk of the commodity (coal)
Total Both Neither (%)
1 6 392 100 39 325 lOO 80 284 lOO 89 245 100
272 176 100
In short, with some notable exceptions dIScussed ID the text, settlement Size, rather than remoteness or regIOnal locatIOn, explalDs more of the vanablhty found ID the locatIOn of services 10 rural BntalO
Acknowledgement - The authors gratefully acknowledge the financIal assistance of the Department of Envlfonment for whom thiS work was done under contract The vIews expressed are not necessanly those of the Department
Rererences
Cloke, P J (1979) Key Seerlements In Rural Areas Methuen, London
Cloke, P J (1983) An Introduction ID Rural Settlement Planmng Methuen, London
Moseley, M J and Packman, J (1983) Mobile Services In
Rural Areas Final report to the Department of En· V1ronment School of EnVironmental SCiences, Umver· slty of East Angha, NorwIch
Packman, J and Wallace, D (1982) Rural services In
Norfolk and Suffolk the management of change In Power, Planmng and People rn Rural East AnglIa, Moseley, M J (ed) Centre of East Angllan Studies, Umverslty of East Angha, Norwich
Smith, R D P (1968) The changIDg urban hICrarchy RegIOnal StudIes 2, 1-19
Standing Conference of Rural Commumty Councils (1978) The Declme of Rural SerVlces National Council for Voluntary Orgamsatlons, London
Appendix The questionnaire
Naa. of lnltltute' ________________________________ __
County ________________________________________ ___
The Irea covered by W 11 vlri •• a lot fro. pllCI to pllce So.~ to b. conaistent WI are l.kl"9 you to answer these qul.tiona In ralation to one sp!ciflc vlll&qe or town If your ar •• c:cverl D:)re than one village or town pluse c:hooM the onl you Jumw belt
Please wrIte here the na.e of the village/town?
Whit 11 the appro~v..te population of your Village/town? PI else tlc_ .pp~rl.te box o - 249
250 - 499
SOO - 749
150 - 999
1000 - 4999
"""" 5 Please give the approxi .. te diatanca in
_Un fro. yOur v111~ .. /town to a buk open five dll.Y. a _at and a Woolworths:
a.nk open 5 day. a _eI<
It th~re ls one 1n your Yllhqe/b;Jwn please p.at 0
6 What services ara avallable ln your villaq~/town' Please tick the relevant boil
woolworths
Ceneral roodshop
Baker. Shop
Butcher. Shop
Post Offic.
Sctw:Jol
Playgroup
Playbus
Par-a.pent Libruy
I10bUe Library
pull-u.. ~tD-n Surg.ry
part-ti_ Doctor. SUI"gery
A D.ily Bu. Service
FOR OFFICE USE
n
B _Ues
.ita
Do the following -.obU. shops viii t your villA9l/town ae111n1j goods !rca • van7 t1 e not .1~ly deliverInq to Individual houI.a) Ple •• e tick the relevant bax ••
8 Ara the following' 'loads del1~red to house. in your Village/toWn' Please tick the relavant bol(~
9 11 .11k deUvered to the ho_s of people living In your village/town? Plea.e tick the relevant bezes
10 'Thinking ot the need. of the people in rour v11lage/to\ln, 1n you:r oploJ.on which two of the followinq .ervic •• would be .ae"'t'U'.etuI in your area' IPleaee Lick no .are than two, an4 only tick tho •• which are curr ... tly not available in your v1Il.qe/townl---
Other (pI .... epe:cifYI
General Grocer
Greenqrocer
Butcher
Wet r1ah
rish aM Ch1~
le. Cre ..
M_sp.pere
Kltal. on Wheel.
lie" .r .. d
Coal
Paraffin
o..11y (5,6 or 7 tl_s • week)
Every other day J aT .. ti_s • wekl
Once or tvic::. a .... Not at all
Mobih &.nk
Mobil. Poet Office
MClbUe Citizens Advice Bureau
P11I.ybu&
MObile Day C.ntr. for the Elderly
IIobU. O'Iiropodiet
Mobil. Optici ....
Pr •• cript1on Delivery
Pen. ion/Social security Delivery
" " ~ " §. Z o
"
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Q'~ ~-'"'-\' p~-rO'~~
1 N'lre.;:, of Inst~tute __________________ _
, Cou,ty
3
----FOR OFclCE USE
- c. ,,~ ( ""'- """"1') rhe area covered by W Is var~es a lot from place to
place Sa as to be CO"'lSl.stent ... e are askl.rtg you to ans.er these questLons ~n relatl.on to one ~oec~fl.c villaae or town If your area covers more than one village or tQ'..m p.lease enoase the one you know best 5N'~W+ Please wrLte ~ the name of the vl.llage/town?
, tlliat 1s tne approxl.mate popula~on of your vl.llage/town? Please tl.CY approprl.ate box 0 249
NO> ~"::l ~ "\
5 Please 91\e the approxl.rnate dl.stance in ml.les from 10~ vl.llage/to~~ to a bank open fl.ve day~ a week ana a Woolworth~ If there is one l.n your vl.ll~e/town p!ellse put 0 tte;,. ~'-';!) =. C\'-\
~\.O..f~~ 6 What &erVl.ces are a~al.lable 1.n your
village/town? Please tlck the
250 -499 2
soo 749 3
750 999 4-
1000 - '999 5
5000+ b
Bank open 5 days a weelt
woolwortils
relevant box / General Foodshop
~o, 1-
Ch ~ 'o\~
1-~u-~
Bakers Shop
Butchers Shop
Post Offl.ce
School
Playgroup
Playbus
Perma~ent Ll.brary
Mobl.le Ll.brary
Full-~me Doctors Surgery
Part-~me Doctors
B miles;
ml.les
7
8
9
10
Do the follo·.ung IOObl.le shops visit your vl.llage/town 5e111.og goods from a van? U. e not samply oell.verl.ng to ridl.vl.Cual houses) please tl.ck the relevant boxes
(is ,,(" 1..
Are ~~e followl.ng goods dell.vered to houses 1.n your vl.llage/town? Please tl.CJt the relevant boxes
rpT>r 1.
Is ml.lk dell.vered to the homes of people l~v~nq in your v~llaqe/town? Please t~ck the relevant boxes
tI.<>~ "I .~ NJ>~ ""'
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~r~nk~,g of the needs of the people ~n your v~llage/town, ~n your op~n~on .... h~ch two of the follow~ '1g serv~ce5 would be mos~seful in your area? (Please t~ck no more than two, and orly t~ck those ~hich are currently not available ~n your v~llage/to~~)---
General Grocer
Greengrocer
Butcl'er
Wet Fl.sh
Fl.sn and Chl.ps
Ice Cream
Newspapers
Meals on Wheels
Meat
Bread
Coal
Paraffl.n
Douly (5,6 or 7 b.mes a .... eek)
Every other day 3 or 4 timas a week)
Once or tw~ce a week
Not at all
Mobile Bank
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l"obl1e Post Of£~ce 2
MOD~le C~tlzens
Adv~ce Bureau
Playbus
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4-Mob_le Day Centre for
the Elderly ~
Mob~le Ch~ropodlst b
"Iobl1e Opb.c~an 7
Surger; H Prescriptl.on DelJ.ver1 A Dal.ly Bus Servl.ce Pensl.on/Socl.al ~
Sec~l.ty Dell.very
Other (please spec~f?t)
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laDI.. 10.. to .. GDMi,a_a.t .. .... aaItiIII JIOU. to ___ th_ qa..u.a- .iD nlatJ.aD to Oft_ !lJ!Clf10 .t.U.,. or town. If JOU' __ caftll's __ a tbu. mae YlllAq. or tcMl '1 .... aboo .. tbe aB. you kDow ~t.
.1 __ vrit.. !:!!£! the ___ of tbII vl11aqe/towa.l
4. What.1.. the apprax1M.ce population of your Yillaqll/town? Pl .... tJ.ck appropri.ate box o - 249
6. What. ~.rvic!!. are avaUable in your vl11A9./tovn~ Plea •• tick the ralevant. box.
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250 - 499
500 - 749
750 - 999
lOOO - 4999
autchu. Shop
School
Playq:roup
PlaybWl
.eru.neDt Library
MobUe Library
Pull-tt.e Doctors ~zy
Part-~ DoctDrs SUrqery
A Dally aus Service
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7. lID the follariJl9 _11. __ Y1.n your '1111-' ...... Hl11n!! voodo f .... "...7 l1 ••• DOt aillply cSoll""'iJ>9 to WiY1_l _J. P1.... tick the relevant boxM.
.8. Ar. th_ followlDQ' voo4- daUw.red to houa .. in ~ vlll.aqa/tcNn? Pl .... Uck the relevant box_.
9. 1. a11lt delivered to the ~. of people liy1D9 in your yilleqa/town? Pl .... Uck t.be relevant box ••
~O. ThlDk1n9 of tM n...s.. of the people In your viIl_qa/_, in your opinion vbid:l. two of the follCNlng auvlcM would be .,.t"'U .. ful 1111 your ar .. ? (Pl .... tick no IIOra than two, and only tJ.ck t.ha •• which are eurr.ntly not .aval1.,1. in your vUlaqa/-m-. -
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~.l Grooezo
Gre .. grocv
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V.t Fiab
Piab and Chip"
Ice er ••
lI ... papera
Meal. on Wh •• l.
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Cool
Paraffin
Daily (~,6 OZ' 7 time •• week)
hey othar day '2 :3 01' .. ~. • WIIak)
ODe. or twice • .s -IIot at all 4-Mobil. Bank j \ Mobil. P.,.t Office. 1-
Mobile C1 tt_ena 3-Advice Bureau
Playbua 4 Mob.l. Day Centra f~ the El4erly
IIobl1. au.rapo41at {, V _11. OpticJ. ... I V Pr_crlpticm Dell~
I Ptnaloa/SOCi.&1
Security Doli..." '1 other IP_ ..... apo!clf
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