Amid howling wind and torrential rain, Bookham Vision team members helped with the rest of clear up early on Saturday, but were obliged to postpone the event. Nevertheless they set up a small collection point in the pub for visitors to drop off their survey forms. Despite the appalling conditions many people still turned out to do this.

 

“We’ll repeat the event in the New Year when we’ll be able to tell people about the plan and give initial feedback on the surveys we’re getting in now”, said Trevor Sokell, Chairman of the Bookham Vision Steering Committee, “in spite of the weather we still had people coming to give us their views. We now have over 300 completed surveys, and more are still coming through the drop-off points around the village. It shows how important this plan is to the people of Bookham. We need and greatly appreciate the input.”

The team are in the process of collating and analysing the thousands of comments in the surveys and hope to report back on these initial views when the event is reconvened in January. Details for that event will be made public as soon as the date and venue are confirmed.