Drop-In Day

The Parish Plan Committee arranged a Drop-In Day on Saturday, 17th January 2004 in Danbury Village Hall from 10am to 4pm.

The event was held to allow the people of Danbury to come and see how the information they have provided has been collated into the draft Parish Plan Report to the Parish Council; thus enabling them to see for themselves the work that has been going on behind the scenes on their behalf. Those attending also had the opportunity to make comments on the draft documents before they are published.

The event was set up by the Danbury Parish Plan Team with thanks to Michelle Pye of the RCCE for her help and the loan of their folding display boards. Doors opened at 10 AM and the first residents burst in eager to see what was going on. They were a bit overwhelmed by the mass of information on display.

Norman Bartlett booking-in a resident. In the order of 200 people turned up.
All Drop-In Day photographs taken by John Bowen

View of the Doris Potter Room in Danbury Village Hall showing the screens displaying many photographs, graphs and aerial pictures of Danbury.
Alongside many of the display pictures were Resident' comments - included honestly given comments about what they liked and didn't like about Danbury.

Residents viewing some of the hundreds of photographs taken at the Photographic Open Day in 2002. The photos were used as a basis for assessing the character and landscape of the village and were an integral ingedient in formulating the report along with the questionnaire input, the business questionnaire, shools workshop and various 'post it' notes from the village workshop.

Ladies reading the Draft Plan document - many pages of interest and containing many facts & figures, some of which were a surprise to the readers.

From left to right, Enid Walsh, Clerk to Ongar PC - John Winslow from the Local History Group and Jill Coward, Vice Chair of Ongar PC.
Ongar are just starting with their Parish Plan.
They visited to see what Danbury had acheived and to pick up tips - good idea.

Also present was the Neighbourhood Watch & The Danbury Society.

Tea, coffee etc was provided free of charge.

The expressed views of those attending the drop-in day were overwhemingly positive with many congratulations being offered to the Parish Plan Team for the amount of hard work that had obviously gone into producing the draft doucmentation which was universally commended.

The Drop-In Day has been judged a complete success - thanks to all involved.