Comments collected during Petersfield Festivities - August Bank Holiday 2007

• A lovely event. Let’s have more of them. Very well organised. The Square needs to be closed to traffic permanently.
• Please keep the Square and through traffic facilities as they are.
• Why, why - has The Square & High Street not been pedestranised years ago?
• More youth activities!!!
• Cut down the fir trees near the old loos, or at least some of them.
• Cycle route especially Stroud to Petersfield linking Langrish School to Petersfield.
• The centre of Petersfield should be traffic free - particularly at the weekends.
• Please can we have residents parking in Penns Road - thank you
• Great use of of a lovely Square
• What a fabulous weekend - Petersfield together
• Fantastic day - to build a greater sense of community.
• Concern re intensification of built up area - lots on site of one house. Pressure on houses - are sold, developers move in.
• Examine and review Station Road use and future reduction of traffic.
• Close off The Square every weekend.
• Turn the pavement on the A272 to East Meon into a cycle way.
• Why not close High Street and Square every Saturday and Sunday.
• Please think re skate park in Love Lane/Moggs Mead! Close to houses, nursery school, sound!!
• Petersfield Tomorrow has been a great innovation - do it more often.
• Please remove William on his horse.
• Sheep Street + St Peters Road one-way (opposite to what is currently the main use) No traffic either side of The Square. Remove statue + replace with bandstand. Nice to see mixed generations on The Square.
• Rural transport required, give bus passes out but can’t use as everything stops at 6 pm so can’t go out in the evening. Public transport required. Cinema - need to maintain.
• Improve pavements in roads off square.
• Sheep Street one way
• A splendid successful idea - good thing it is dry.
• Great efficient use of town space - increasing social interaction (and trade!)
• The Square needs to be made a traffic free area.
• One off event - though consider creating a one way system of traffic via Chapel Street, Swan Street, Charles Street, Lavant Street will create greater volume of traffic through the streets, noisy for residents &bad for Lavant Street Street Shops. Buses cannot operate from bus stops that exist. People can not alight safely in Swan Street.
• Why can’t The High Street be closed every Saturday night from 6 pm.
• Really loved Friday evening. Please do it again. Nice to see families out, no worries of cars.
• Petersfield festivities was a great success. Should become an annual event - live music on Saturday evenings should go on until midnight - perhaps less noisy bands though.
• Petersfield Town Centre - vote for pedestrianisation.
• The Corrie site in Frenchmans Road should never have been turned down for residential use. An industrial site virtually in the centre of town is never right.
• Would be a good thing to close Square to traffic at weekends.
• Excellent event - suggest it be done regularly (maybe also in Liss & surrounds!)
• May we have a more pretty square please? Surrounded by trees and a few wooden benches like France!
• Music FAR TOO LOUD on Saturday & Sunday. Drove me out of town!!
• Younger people can’t afford to live in Petersfield. More houses needed to balance the cost of housing. More High Street independent shopping also.
• Godalming Town Council put on open air concerts every Sunday in the summer in the park. The music is sponsored by local business and a collection is made for a roof for the band stand. Maybe The Square could be used in the same way.
• Keep it open on holidays - very good.
• I was very disappointed that the 20 mile speed limit does not extend along Swan Street passed the front of Castle Garden flats.
• Traffic free zone is an excellent way forward.
• Let’s have more of this every weekend for starters!
• Great, fantastic event.Brilliant organisation. The weather really made it. Hopefully a huge success. Do it again! May Day bank holiday is always good weather - do another one then.
• Good use of The Square and High Street. More needed!
• Pedestrianise the town centre more often - in fact keep it this way.
• I consider any loss of parking is a mistake. It is useful to the elderly to be able to park close to the shop they wish to visit. Double up parking in Swan Street with one or two more storeys.
• Ensure dropped kerbs are properly accessible i.e. road + kerbs flush so no need to lift wheelchairs etc. to cross. Flat rather than sloped access helpful.
• I have lived here for 54 years and this weekend has been one of the best I have seen. Everyone has enjoyed themselves and no trouble anywhere! Let’s hope that we see many more the same.
• I support the initiative to pedestrianise the town centre of Petersfield but the extent of this week to be carefully considered and if it is for the whole week or selected days only.