THE SHADY GARDEN PROJECT QUESTIONNAIRE

What do you think?

The Totnes Public Space Forum would welcome your views and comments on its plans for improving the Shady Garden.

Please answer the questions in the five sections below by clicking in the square boxes and add your own comments or
suggestions in the spaces provided. If you’re short of time, you can answer the questions in Section 1 only.

1. AIMS OF THE PROJECT
The overall aim is to improve the existing space and encourage people to make more use of it.

•     Do you agree with this aim?        Yes       No
  
•     Would you be likely to use the space yourself?       Yes      No

If you disagree with the aim, would you prefer to:

•     Leave the space as it is?      
  
•     Put the site to a different use altogether?      

If so, please specify here:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

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2. USES FOR THE SPACE
The proposals in this exhibition are aimed at providing an attractive public space for a range of day-to-day activities,
including those listed below. Please tick any that might be of interest to you:

•     A place to sit, rest, watch the world go by       
  
•     Somewhere to meet people      
  
•     A place to wait for the Community Bus (Bob the Bus)      
  
•     Somewhere to find out information about the town      

The space might also be used for uses such as:

• Pop-up stalls       
  
• Small-scale events (such as street theatre or art/craft displays)       
  
• Busking or other small-scale performance       

Please add here any other uses you’d like to suggest: ………………………………………………………………………………

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3. THE DESIGN

The items listed below and shown on the exhibition drawings are only a suggestion of what might be provided in the space.
Please tick any you would like to see ─ and make your own suggestions too:

• Bench seating      
  
• Evergreen hedges      
  
• Surfacing with gravel & stone block paving      
  
• Artwork or sculpture       
  
• Information board       
  
• Night-time lighting       
  
• Drinking-water fountain      

Please add here any other features you’d like to suggest…………………………………………………………………………………………

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Public information

If a display board is provided for local information, please tick any that you’d find useful:

• Town map      
  
• Public transport information       
  
• Guide to historic buildings and sites      
  
• Local events      
  
• Places to shop and eat       
  
• Town trails       
  
• Information about the Town Council      

Please add here any suggestions of your own: :…………………………………………………………………………………………

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4. A NAME FOR THE SPACE
The Shady Garden has been known by various names over the past 50 years.
Some people have suggested it should be renamed the Shady Corner or Brutus Place
(a reference to local history and to the Brutus Stone located a short way up the street).

Please click in one box below to indicate your own preference,
or add your own suggestion for a name, e.g.: Leave name as it is (Shady Garden).

Shady Corner      

Brutus Place        

Your own suggestion:………………………………………………

5. ABOUT YOU
Are you:

Living in Totnes?      

Working in Totnes?       

A frequent visitor to Totnes?      

A tourist or infrequent visitor?      

Other (please specify):……………………………………………………..

Have you used the Shady Garden in the past six months?     Yes     No

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You’ve finished – thank you for your help!

You can fill out this online questionnaire by clicking boxes then click on Select All and Print but, if wish to add suggestions, you will have to write them in the spaces provided on a printed copy of the questionnaire. The completed questionnaire can be placed in the box provided at the Exhibition in the United Free Church on Friday & Saturday 12th & 13th July

Or you can copy it into your email message sender and send it to: ed@totnesdevelopmenttrust.org.uk

Or post it on completion to Totnes Public Space Forum, c/o Totnes Guildhall, Ramparts Walk, Totnes TQ9 5QH.

If you have further comments that are not catered for in the questionnaire, please email them to: ed@totnesdevelopmenttrust.org.uk

If you’d be interested in joining the Public Space Forum or the Working Group for the Shady Garden project, please leave your
name and email address at the Exhibition so we can contact you or email direct to: ed@totnesdevelopmenttrust.org.uk

The Public Space Forum is a community organisation acknowledged as an advisory body to Totnes Town Council.