Wealden Local Plan – Town Centre Evidence Study

Wealden District Council has commissioned work on a Town Centre Study by experts Nexus Planning to feed into the Local Development Plan.

Part of the information gathering will involve asking residents about their shopping and leisure preferences. A telephone survey, involving around 1,000 households in the council area and its wider catchment, will be conducted by NEMS Market Research, who are based near Newcastle.

The information provided will help give the council a better understanding of how and where people like to shop, spend their leisure time and use the town centres in the council area.

The survey should take approximately six or seven minutes to complete. Most approaches will be made outside normal working hours in order to make sure working households can take part.

No personal information will be collected other than age and gender. However, participants will be asked to provide their full postcode to ensure the survey covers accurate geography.

Any information you provide will be used in statistical form only, so that it will not be possible for you to be identified from your answers.

We would welcome people taking part in the survey and greatly appreciate all responses, but anyone contacted is under no obligation to take part. If anyone who receives a call has concerns at any point, they should hang up and report it to us via email.  

If you would like to know more, please contact the Planning Policy team on 01892 602 008.