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Tunstead & Sco Ruston Village Plan

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Contents

What is a Village Plan ……………………………….................. ..... 3 A Message from the Steering Group .……………………………....4 Brief History of Tunstead & Sco Ruston …………………………….5 A lifetime in Tunstead………………………………......................... .7 Tunstead & Sco-Ruston today ………………………………......... ..8 Amenities ……………………………….....................................…11 Village shop/Post Office Playing Field Village Hall Environment …………………..…………………….......................14 Conservation Projects Flooding Footpaths Litter and dog fouling Communication………………………………................................15 Broadband connections Newsletter Website Notice Boards Crime & Security ………………………………............................16 View on Police response/presence Crime figures Neighbourhood Watch Education ……………………………….........................................17 Village Primary School Pre-School Transport and Access to Services………………………….…....18 Access to services Transport for the elderly Interest Groups/Clubs.................................................................19 Road Safety …………...................................................................20 Speed Watch Traffic Calming Visibility of speed signs Pedestrian dangers Youth……………………………….................................... .............21 Views on Local Democracy………………………………..............21 Parish map.………………………………….………....................... 22 Acknowledgements………………………………...........................23

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What is a Village Plan

In 2000, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) released a Rural White Paper - „Our Countryside: The Future - A Fair Deal for Rural England‟. Among the issues raised was the objective for rural communities to have the opportunity to formulate their own future needs through the development of Village Plans. The White Paper described a Village Plan as:- „An opportunity to develop community agreement on local priorities, and options for addressing them‟. „To preserve valued local features and to map out the facilities and services which the community needs to safeguard for the future‟. „To provide a valuable input to wider community planning„. A Village Plan for Tunstead and Sco-Ruston was first promoted by the Parish Council. However, it must be stressed that it is the village residents, acting independently from the Parish Council who have compiled this Village Plan.

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MESSAGE FROM THE STEERING GROUP

„How can we improve on what we don‟t have?‟ This quote from the questionnaire referred to the need for a bus service, but could have been directed at so much else that is lacking in the village. The Tunstead & Sco-Ruston Village Plan is our community’s vision for the future. The plan addresses matters of concern for residents and provides a collective voice for the two villages. It outlines actions we can undertake as a community, shows where action has already been taken, and highlights areas of concern. It is essential to point out that the data collated from the questionnaires originates from 2009, and while there has been some updating, the statistics must stand as a record of the time. 224 households and 532 people responded to the questionnaire, which represented 70% of the households in the village. This is a far higher return than most villages that went through the same process and suggests that the people of Tunstead & Sco-Ruston are determined to influence their Village Plan. However, it is important to note from the onset that the data used in this plan is compiled from the respondents and cannot therefore be regarded as fully representative of the entire village. We wish to thank those who came along to the meeting at Tunstead Primary on November 4th 2009 to chat over new and revived initiatives for the village. We have given due consideration to the weight of opinion at that meeting, subsequent discussions with parishioners and the analysis of preferences in the questionnaires before writing this plan. 71% of questionnaire respondents believe that the building of a new village hall is essential to meet the needs of interest groups, help foster community spirit and create an identity for the village. Action to help achieve this is a high priority, but we wish to emphasise that action has already been taken for other high scoring preferences. 66% of respondents were concerned with speeding traffic through Market Street: a Market Street Speed Watch Team was set up, though has recently been disbanded through lack of support. 75% wanted a village newsletter: this has been delivered on a quarterly basis since Christmas 2009, though due to its high costs, it was temporarily suspended while a change of format was implemented. Publication has recently been renewed. 33% wanted a village website: we now have a community website and online forum – www.tunstead-sco-ruston.info. It is our hope that the Tunstead & Sco-Ruston Village Plan will also make a positive contribution to debates on wider issues and influence the powerful forces which impact on our village life, such as Councils, planners and developers.

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BRIEF HISTORY OF TUNSTEAD & SCO-RUSTON

Kindly provided by historian Peter Brice of Worstead

In recent times some prehistoric artefacts have been found in Tunstead, such as a Mesolithic flaked axe and two blade like flakes. However there are not enough finds to suggest an early settlement, even though a Roman road passed close by through Sloley. Tunstead probably became a settlement in Anglo Saxon times, albeit a rather scattered one in clearings in the then extensive woodland. Its name derives from the Old English tun (meaning enclosure, settlement or farm) and stede (meaning place). In late Saxon times the local administrative unit was the hundred. Tunstead gave its name to the local hundred, though unusually the hundred’s meeting place was not in Tunstead itself but further north close to the boundaries of the North and South Erpingham hundreds. The Little Domesday Book of 1086 names the lord of the manor in the time of Edward the Confessor as one Alfer, a thegn of the last Saxon King Harold, who died at the Battle of Hastings. The manor, valued at £10 in 1066, but at £11 in 1086, was given to the Norman lord, Roger of Poitou (Poitiers). It seems he lost most of his lands by supporting Robert of Normandy, William the Conqueror’ son. He recovered most of them, but perhaps not Tunstead, because by Henry II’s reign (1154 -1189) the manor belonged to the de Grelley family. In 1260 Thomas de Grelley was granted a weekly market: it was no longer operating by the seventeenth century, but is commemorated by Market Street. There were other landowners in the parish, but the de Grelley manor had passed to Nicholas de Meldon by 1315. In 1327 it was sold to John Stretch, who conveyed it to the Duke of Lancaster in 1353. When Duke Henry of Lancaster became the first Lancastrian king in 1399, the manor became part of the Duchy of Lancaster.

The Church of St Mary – ‘a large and handsome pile’ according to Blomefield’s History of Norfolk – belongs to the Decorated and Perpendicular periods of medieval church architecture, where an earlier, smaller church was rebuilt on profits from open field farming on Tunstead’s good soil and from Tunstead’s share of the weaving industry. Worsted

manufacture flourished in parishes north of Norwich in the fourteenth century despite the Black Death of 1349 and the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. A series of bequests indicate that the rood screen was painted in 1470-90, with images of the Apostles, including St Paul and of the

A tranchet axe head, probably

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Four Latin Doctors (Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory and Jerome). The rood screen and the rood beam survived the Reformations of the sixteenth century, although in the reign of Edward VI (1547-53) much of the church’s colourful medieval decoration was destroyed and the service books, vessels and vestments used in the medieval mass were confiscated. One chalice and one of three bells survived. In the reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603) the people of Tunstead became accustomed to Protestantism and in 1603 the then vicar, Jeffrey Briggs, reported that the church had ninety communicants. Tunstead’s vicar was a rector until the mid fourteenth century when the Duke of Lancaster granted the rectory (the right to collect tithes) and the advowson (the right to nominate the vicar) to the prioress and convent of Campsey Ash in Suffolk. When Campsey Ash was dissolved in 1536, Henry granted Tunstead’s appropriated rectory and advowson to John Corbet, who was prominent in the dissolution of monasteries in Norfolk. Tunstead gained a reputation for Puritanism in the mid to late seventeenth century. Tunstead Independent (Congregationalist) Church was formed in 1652 and nominated a member to the short-lived Barebones Parliament in 1653. John Green became a member of the Yarmouth Independent Church in 1655 and Vicar of Tunstead in 1657. In January 1660 as the restoration of Charles II became ever more likely, he became pastor to the Tunstead Independent Church, losing his vicar’s freehold in Tunstead soon after May 1660. In 1669 he was reported to be illegally officiating at the house of Christopher Appleby in Tunstead. When Charles II issued his Declaration of Indulgence in 1672, Green was licensed as a Congregationalist minister in Dilham and at his own house in Tunstead. From 1785 the village was included in the Tunstead and happing Poor Law Union and its poor entered the House of Industry (later Workhouse) built in Smallburgh.

Tunstead and Happing one penny and half-

penny workhouse tokens of 1812. The

workhouse was sited in Workhouse Road, off Anchor Street

Hawthorn Cottage in Mill Lane, virtually unchanged over 6 decades.

Former chapel, c 1830, once attended by over 100 parishioners every Sunday, now a grade II listed English Heritage building. Construction: shuttered clay on flint plinth course

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A LIFETIME IN TUNSTEAD Derek Kirk’s account of growing-up in Tunstead.

I was born in 1939, in a bungalow in Anchor Street, which has since been demolished to make way for what is now Bracken View. I was too young to remember very much about the Second World War, although I have a vivid memory of being in the garden with my mother, who was picking raspberries, when a German bomber flew very low over the house. It dropped three or four bombs a couple of fields away, before crashing over towards Wroxham, It was a slower pace to life in the mid to late 40s. We walked to school in Sloley, which was about 2 miles each way. I hated those early years at school and ran home several times. Life was far more interesting watching the men working on the farms or those who came around with the Threshing Turnouts. As boys we could keep track of the time of day by whoever came down whichever road we happened to be on. The Post Van around 9.30am; Grimes Baker’s Van between 10 and 11am and around 1.30pm, it would be Mr Reid from Smallburgh Post Office starting his deliveries. One day, my pal Bill and I whipped our wooden tops from our bungalow, all the way down Anchor Street, to the turn to High Street Sloley and back, without meeting any traffic.

Village life in those days was mostly associated with the farm. There were sixteen men and two women working full time on Fir Tree Farm and twenty six men working on Daniel Brothers Farm, which was later to become Tunstead Farm. Now there are none! All the work is done by contractors with massive machines, operated by only a handful of men. Apart from the farms, there were eight or nine ’Little Doers’ – small holders farming 30 to 50 acres. After a hard day on the

land, spring and summer, the ol’ boys would spend evenings working in their gardens, perhaps taking half an hour to lean over a gate or fence to yarn with neighbours or anyone who happened to pass by. Then they would slip down to ‘The Grome’ (Horse & Groom) for a quick pint, where Ted Bristo would play the squeeze box, or tap out a tune on the spoons. In 1952 there was great excitement in the village when Sir Edward Preston, the High Sheriff of Norfolk, opened our Village Hall. The entertainment was provided by Sidney Grapes who writ the ‘Boy John Letters’ in the EDP. Tuesday nights saw the hall crammed full to watch the travelling pictures. In those days we had one of the best youth clubs in Norfolk, thanks to Mr Hewitt, the school headmaster. The hall was used by the Women’s Institute and for dances, whist drives, bingo and many other activities. It was a time in the village when everyone knew everyone. Progress has not helped village life. Shops have closed and the pub, as we knew it, has gone. There used to be a regular bus service, but that’s gone too. At least we still have the school and a football team playing in Tunstead, after many years without one, but, what we need more than anything else to bring a spark of community spirit back into the village is a new Village Hall.

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TUNSTEAD & SCO-RUSTON TODAY

The most recent figures available for the population of the parish of Tunstead come from Norfolk Insight (a demographic survey website issued by Norfolk County Council), which states that the parish supported 692 in 2009. With the recent completion of the Market Close development, the number of households in the parish may have increased by a further 50+, bringing the population to the mid 700s. Age Groups:

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The following data is provided by North Norfolk District Council, and can be found on www.norfolkdata.net

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AMENITIES

Village Shops It is well recognised that the loss of shops, post offices, schools and public houses has torn the heart out of local communities. The shop in Crowgate and Mrs Kerry’s shop in Sco-Ruston closed in the mid 1950’s.

Site of the former Crowgate shop

The Post Office had existed in the same site (The Old Post House) for over 100 years when it closed in May 1990.

A year later, in May 1991, the Post Office opened in its new site at The Country House on Market Street, under the management of Mr and Mrs Jackson. It ran for 6 days per week for 7 years and at a reduced 4 days for a further 2 years, until March 2000, when the Jacksons retired and the Post Office closed.

Alan Chambers, the then Chairman of the Parish Council, cutting the ribbon with Mrs Jackson at the opening of the Post Office.

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The issue of a village green featured strongly in the questionnaires. And while it is uncertain how a village green can be created in a village where there has never been one, there being no natural space (apart form the playing field), it must be recorded that 85 households would like one. There were 21 unsolicited requests for a village store/post office, so we are left to wonder what that figure could have been had a specific question been included. The Horse and Groom Public House closed in 2004. It was converted to a restaurant/bar, renamed The Olive Branch, which opened in 2007. A coffee shop was added in 2009 which developed into a delicatessen, post questionnaire. We understand that the management aims to gradually increase on stock lines and basic grocery items. No mention was made of the Roadside Nature Reserve, jointly managed by Norfolk County Council countryside team and the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. It is one of 103 RNRs in the county and is distinguished by hosting one of the country’s rarest orchids, the leopard spotted fen orchid.

Quote from questionnaire: “Let‟s have a playing field makeover.” Playing Field/Village Green The playing field was acquired for the village in 1986. Cricket and football teams were quickly established together with a play area with swings and a slide. These have been added to over the years. The cricket team folded in 1995. Regular football ceased in 2005 but the football pitch was maintained and in 2009, a team, formed in nearby Worstead began to use the pitch on a regular basis. That team has now made Tunstead its permanent base, though its pledge to start junior training and a veterans’ team has not materialised. In the Junior and Youth sections of the questionnaire there was strong support for a better play area, with a skate/bike park with jumps and a cage football court high in the list of preferences.

Quote from questionnaire: “There‟s a desperate need for a village hall”

Village Hall The Village Hall was demolished in 1971, making way for the building of Granary Way, but remains a contentious issue for older members of the village. The building was acquired with money allocated for the men of Tunstead returning from the 1939-45 war. To a man, they gave that money to the village for a village hall, which was officially declared open by Sir Edward Preston in 1952. It stood on land leased from Norfolk County Council, now occupied by numbers 10, 11, 12 and 13 Granary Way. The 21 year lease was due to expire in June 1971, but a clause in the agreement provided for a 19 year extension, which was not taken up. It would seem that by 1970 the County Council had

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already earmarked that land for development and there remains a belief in the village that pressure was applied to the Parish Council to ensure that the lease was not renewed.

The portakabin on the playing field is the latest in a long line of temporary village halls. Initiatives have been taken over the years to replace the old one with a permanent structure, notably in the late nineties when a concerted effort was made to tap into the Lottery Millennium fund. Unfortunately this was unsuccessful and all plans were put on hold.

The Village Plan questionnaires revealed that a huge majority in the village - 70% - would like a proper village hall. This is our main priority and to that end a Village Hall Focus Group has been looking at various options. Although originally favouring a 40m x 12m wooden structure which would reduce cost by allowing for a large element of self-build, there have been recent plans for a modern brick built structure with eco-friendly features drawn up and approved by NNDC. While the project would still have to rely upon a sizeable National Lottery Fund contribution, other funds are being investigated. Substantial fundraising would still be required, and ideas for this are on-going.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Post Office/Stores

Medium Look into possibility of Post office counter in Olive Branch deli. Or a Community-run post office in new Village Hall

Steering Group to make contacts and evaluate options

Playing Field/ Village Green

Medium Improve play area. Use soil from new village hall foundations to landscape skate/bike park.

Village Hall & Playing Field Committee.

Village Hall High NNDC planning dept for on-site advice. Excavate and build foundations as soon as planning permission is received. At same time commence active fundraising campaign.

Village Hall Focus Group to lead, liaising with PC and Village Hall & Playing Field Committee as required.

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ENVIRONMENT Quote from questionnaire: “Farmers should maintain ditches” Conservation Projects 24% indicated that they would like to be involved in conservation projects although such projects other than maintenance of ditches were not specified. There was a view that this was the responsibility of farmers.

Flooding 25% In certain areas in the village flooding has caused problems, specifically in Fletcher Close, in Weavers Loke and in Watering Pit Lane where flooding can lead to sewage pollution.

Footpaths 47% thought footpaths and bridleways are adequately maintained. 18% thought not and the remainder did not know. Are there enough specific comments of neglect to warrant investigation? Would a map encourage the ‘don’t knows’ to use them and have an opinion? There was a suggestion for a footpath to Wroxham and this is echoed in the road safety section.

Litter & Dog Fouling There is considerable concern in the village about litter and fly tipping. However, more people object to dog fouling with the majority of complaints relating to fouling on footpaths.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Conservation low Call meeting for those interested in

Conservation Steering Group

Flooding high NNDC

Footpaths med NCC Countryside Management

Litter/dog fouling med NCC Highways for bins; dog-owners for ultimate responsibility.

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COMMUNICATION

Quote from questionnaire “Broadband is painfully slow”

Broadband Connections 26% of households report a problem with their broadband connection, but the questionnaire does not tell us how many have a connection. It would seem that the households linked to the Smallburgh Exchange receive an adequate service. It is those linked to Coltishall Exchange who have most cause for complaint. However, in May 2011, Norfolk was given Governmental funding to improve broadband speeds and access; Tunstead needs to register its interest in being included in this upgrade of exchanges. (This has recently been done.) Newsletter 73% thought that communication would improve in Tunstead/Sco-Ruston through a regular newsletter. This has been delivered on a quarterly basis since Christmas 2009 and has been well received. However future funding became an issue and a more affordable format is being investigated. (A new format was trialled and accepted in October 2011.)

Website 35% wanted a village website. This has now been delivered and ideas on how to promote it need to be explored.

Notice Boards 32% think that notice boards should be updated on a regular basis and that new sites should be looked into.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Broadband High The parish needs to ensure that it is

included in the Broadband upgrading currently being submitted by Norfolk CC.

Parish Council has registered interest in a faster Broadband service.

Newsletter High Encourage groups to submit their own articles and recruit additional news gatherers.

Newsletter Focus Group/PC

Website Done Encourage and educate. PC/Interested villagers

Notice Boards High Encourage Parish Council to install new/refurbished notice boards and identify new sites.

Parish Council.

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CRIME & SECURITY Quote from questionnaire “We never see police in Tunstead”

Police Response/Presence 60% of responding households feel that police presence in Tunstead/Sco-Ruston is inadequate. 24 reported that they were victims of local crime, though over what period of time was not made clear; this figure did not match the official Police data on reported local crime. However, of the 24 respondents, 10 thought the police response time poor and 5 only fair. 5 thought it good and 4 excellent. The statistics provided by the Safer Neighbourhood Team can provide information on crime in each of Tunstead and Sco Ruston as far back as 2006. In the 5 years from 1st September 2006 to 7th October 2011, 59 and 4 crimes were recorded respectively in the 2 areas; from 1st October 2010 and 1st October 2011, 8 and 1 crimes were recorded respectively. These are all separately reported crimes and may disguise the fact that more than one crime may have been perpetrated against one person, therefore possibly skewing the impression that crime is more widespread than it is.

Neighbourhood Watch For some reason, perhaps remote location, 35 households did not answer this question. Of the others, 126 thought a Neighbourhood Watch scheme would help them feel more secure.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Police Presence/ Response

Med Make representation through PCSO Parish Council

Neighbourhood Watch Med Make representation through PCSO Parish Council

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EDUCATION

Village School Tunstead Primary School continues to thrive. In the autumn 2011 register there are 95 pupils, with 29 and 2 of those residing in Tunstead & Sco-Ruston consecutively. There is an extremely active ‘Friends of Tunstead School’ association which runs seasonal events to raise funds and help generate a community spirit.

Pre-School A well-attended pre-school and nursery group is active in Dilham village hall, but planning is underway to incorporate this group into Tunstead school, with its own dedicated area.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Village School Medium Support & encourage ‘Friends of

Tunstead School’ activities. Tunstead school and Friends of the school group.

Pre-school High Planning underway Tunstead school

Aspects on the school‟s thriving gardens and grounds, reflecting its rural neighbourhood.

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TRANSPORT AND ACCESS TO SERVICES Quote from questionnaire “Free bus pass – but no buses!” 23% of all households say that their activities are restricted by lack of transport. Recently, a bus service has been operating to Wroxham twice weekly.

Access to services There are households that find it difficult to access health services, although they are small numbers: 11 for Chiropody: 12 for an Optician and 12 for a Doctor.

Transport for the elderly Is this problem being addressed?

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Access High Identify those in immediate

difficulty. Investigate possibility of holding a weekly surgery in Tunstead.

Transport Med The villagers must support the service by using it.

Villagers

HOUSING Is there a need for sheltered housing in the village? 34% thought so. 25% thought not and 41% had no view. On the question of additional affordable or social housing, 11% said yes – 27% said no – 62% had no view. On the need for affordable housing for members of existing households 14% said yes

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Affordable Housing High Market Close, recently completed,

provides AH for 14 families. All councils, working in partnership with housing associations.

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INTEREST GROUPS & CLUBS Quote from questionnaire “A Sports Club for all.”

303 people stated that they would like to be involved in some kind of activity or club but unfortunately the village does not have the facility (a proper village hall) to allow most of those activities to take place. Where the current facility would suffice, the Steering Group and PC members have been encouraging people of like interests to get together. The first success story is the inauguration of a Gardening Club with 12 founder members.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Groups & Clubs High Continue to identify possible group

leaders and bring like minded people together.

Villagers and interested people

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ROAD SAFETY

Quote from questionnaire “Parked cars near the school create an unacceptable

hazard”

Speed Watch 66% of residents believe that most of the traffic travelling through the village exceeds the indicated speed limit. This has been partially verified by the Market Street Speed Watch Team, who commenced operations in March 2010. Unfortunately, this team has had to be disbanded due to lack of volunteers.

Traffic Calming Although 37% of households would like to see some form of traffic calming, in conversation, in discussion many people are against any measures which cause road surface damage or noise pollution through low gear driving by lorries and farm machinery.

Speed Signs visibility If signs are obscured, there is an issue regarding the legality of speed restrictions throughout the village. 16% thought that repositioning of speed signs would improve road safety. An additional Speed-Activated sign has been suggested for the Hoveton end of the village.

Pedestrian dangers Although only 36% believe there is a safety problem for pedestrians in the village this has more relevance for those using the Hoveton end of Market Street, where there is no footpath.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Speed Watch High Encourage others to join both

teams. ?

Traffic Calming Med Speed is an issue. Arrange a meeting where various options can be discussed.

Steering Group

Visibility of speed signs

High Inspection and remedial action on a quarterly basis.

Parish Council

Pedestrian Footpaths High Ensure footpaths are regularly maintained.

Parish Council

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YOUTH Quote from questionnaire “There‟s nothing to do.”

At the time of the questionnaire, it was revealed that there were 20 children between the ages of eight to eleven and 21 twelve to seventeen year olds. Without further evidence, we have assumed that there are approximately 30 in each category for the village as a whole and on this basis, many of the things they would like to do in the village have a very good chance of success.. Apart from using the playing field, cycling or horse riding, most of the activities both groups are interested in take place outside of the village – definitely the organised ones. This is mainly due to lack of facilities. Many of the things the youngsters believe would make the village a better place to live in, such as a bus service, shop/post office, village hall and safe walking/cycle routes are shared by the adult population.

ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Youth activities High Identify those willing to run a club

In current facilities: interested parents; school support; dissemination of information.

Village community members, interested people.

VIEWS ON LOCAL DEMOCRACY Quote from questionnaire “Who are they?”

The questionnaires reveal a jaundiced view of local democracy. ACTION PLAN Subject Priority Action Required Responsibility Who is in the Parish Council?

High Increase profile through noticeboards, newsletters and website.

Parish Council members.

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AKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Our thanks to Peter Brice of Worstead, who researched and wrote the history of Tunstead for us, and to Derek Kirk, whose knowledge of Tunstead, both past and present, is without equal. The Parish Council who instigated the process. Volunteers who delivered and collected the questionnaires. All the villagers who took the time to complete the questionnaire. The Parish Council would like to express their deep gratitude to all those involved in bringing the Parish Plan to fruition – from the original ideas, the construction, duplicating, and delivery of the questionnaires; their collection, collation and analysis and the mammoth task of ordering, editing and presenting this document.

The parishioners were invited in to the school to add their comments and suggestions for the parish plan, 6th December 2006.

„Moving to Tunstead has vastly improved our quality of life.‟

(Mr and Mrs Aldridge and their children Jake and Kate, who moved to Tunstead 2 years ago.)

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A section of a map of Norfolk, showing Tunstead, both as village and as former

Hundred, as recorded in cartographic form, in 1549.