Kempsford Parish Affordable Housing Needs Survey

People of Kempsford Parish - including Kempsford, Whelford, Dunfield and Dudgrove - please tell us about your housing needs, and whether you think there is enough suitable and affordable housing for everyone in your area.

We've just mailed an Affordable Housing Needs Survey to every household in your Parish.

In the coming days, every household in your parish will receive an Affordable Housing Needs Survey.

We really need your whole household to take part in this vital survey, so please ask everyone who lives in your household to think about the questions on the survey and contribute to your response.

The surveys provide the opportunity for any resident to self-identify as being in affordable housing need, which can then help to make a case for affordable housing projects to be planned and delivered, if more affordable housing is needed in your area.

GRCC is an independent local charity which has been asked to conduct this survey on behalf of Kempsford Parish Council.

There are many benefits to creating affordable housing in rural areas:

• Affordable Housing makes rural communities more sustainable - giving them a long term future
• Affordable Housing makes it more likely that a local area can have all the services available nearby that people need, such as schools, shops, cafés, health services, and bus services
• Affordable Housing gives younger people more of a chance to live in rural areas

Affordable Housing Needs Surveys help us find out the following:

Housing Needs - what type of housing is needed, and whether the current housing is suitable for the community's changing needs

Affordable Housing- the survey can help with making plans to create affordable housing where it is needed

The survey process consists of the follow steps which we at GRCC will carry out, working with your Parish Council:

• We distribute a survey to every household in the parish
• We provide information about what we are doing and why, and advertise the survey
• We provide guidance on the survey process and timescales
• We analyse the survey data
• We create a detailed report for the Parish Council.

Please help us to help you. Please fill in and return the Affordable Housing Needs Survey to us, so that your voice is heard.

GRCC will be sending out Affordable Housing Needs Surveys to other parishes too in the next few days:

9th September: Highnam

16th September: Sandhurst and The Leigh.

Others will follow in the coming weeks.

If you have any questions, please email us via info@grcc.org.uk or call us on 01452 528491.