Place Survey

Place Survey – Your place, everyone’s borough.

From 29 September to 19 December 2008, Walsall Partnership carried out a postal survey to find out what residents think about Walsall as a place to live and about the service provided by local public services i.e. Walsall Council, the Police and Fire services, NHS Walsall, housing providers, businesses and the community and voluntary sector.

The 'Place Survey' (0.97MB), which was carried out at the same time by all local authorities in England and Wales, was sent out to a random sample of 5,000 households in the borough. Locally it will be used to identify what residents think we are doing well, where we need to improve, as well as thoughts on what the priorities are for the services we provide. Importantly it will help us track our progress against or Local Area Agreement (LAA). The LAA represents a commitment by partners to work together to deliver on key priorities towards making Walsall a great place to live, work and invest. These results are being used by central government to check out Walsall’s progress from residents’ perspective.

Leading market researchers Ipsos MORI undertook the survey on behalf of the Walsall Partnership. All information collected was treated in complete confidence and the results analysed and reported independently. You can download a copy of the survey (PDF 137KB)

Presentation of initial findings

Ipsos MORI took part in a Walsall Partnership workshop about the Comprehensive Area Assessment on 15 May 2009, where Gary Welch presented some of the preliminary findings from Walsall's Place Survey. Please note that these findings have not yet been verified by the Department for Communities and Local Government. The final results will be posted on this website once they are available.

View the Place Survey 2008/09 presentation (PDF 2.34MB)

For more information contact:

Walsall Council
Telephone 01922 652474
Email surveys@walsall.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 19 June 2009