Have your say on our local spaces

HAVE YOUR SAY ON THE SPACES AROUND US

The Linmere Masterplan is to create a place where wellbeing is prioritised and outdoor living becomes a way of live. Residents will never be more than 5 minutes walk from public green space.

As these green and active spaces evolve over the next few years, it’s important to bring residents into the process and help shape the environments that encourage those living here to get outside and use them.

Linmere are partnering with the University of Bedfordshire and PHD student Olivia Flemons, in a project which will explore ways of connecting with residents to improve meaningful physical activity, physical wellbeing through active landscaping and social connections.

By making Linmere the focus of research, the hope is to create an approach we can apply to Linmere ourselves and for the University of Bedfordshire to take to other communities around the UK and help more communities develop active local environments.

For Linmere and Linmere’s Masterplan, this is a novel and innovative project which provides an opportunity to demonstrate our collective ambitions – that Linmere is a place to live, not just somewhere to buy a house. Furthermore, it shows that we’re not here just to sell front doors, but help residents form an active, thriving community.

HOW TO HAVE YOUR SAY!

The most important part of this research is our residents and what they have to say. The research is happening in 2 parts. Firstly a series of research groups are being conducted at the Farmstead. Details of the next focus group, with a link to take part, are detailed below. Running alongside this is an online questionnaire, which can be completed at any time. Links to the online questionnaire are detailed below.

Every participant over the age of 18 will be entered into a draw to win £100 of shopping vouchers. Term and conditions apply, detailed further below on this page.

Focus group research

The next focus group will be held at the Farmstead Halls on Friday 13 October, from 7–8:30pm. To register your interest in taking part, please use the link on the panel below, to email Olivia Flemons, our research leader. We warmly welcome anyone joining us to have their say!

Online research

It’s really important for us to hear from residents, and neighbours, for a broad cross-section of age groups. Therefore, there are 2 online questionnaires, one for everyone over 16 years, whilst the other is specifically for those between 10 and 16 years. Please use the relevant link and we thank everyone for taking the time to ‘Have Your Say!’

Free Prize Draw – Terms and Conditions

1. By entering the prize draw, through completing the online questionnaire, you are agreeing to these prize draw terms and conditions. 2. The prize draw is being run by Linmere (Houghton Regis Management Ltd). 3. Only those of the age of 18, who participate in the online questionnaire, will be entered into the draw. 4. In entering the prize draw, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and eligible to claim any prize you may win. 5. A maximum of one entry per individual. 6. The prize draw is free to enter, by simply completing the online questionnaire. 7. Entry into the Free Prize Draw ends at 5pm on Wednesday 15th November 2023; the winner will be drawn on Friday 17th November 2023 – at random – and notified by email following the draw. 8. The winner must claim the prize by 12:00pm on Friday 24th November 2023, or the draw will be re-run to find a new winner. 9. The promoter will not accept responsibility for incomplete or inaccurate contact details. 10. The prize is £100 in Grocery Shopping vouchers – valid at a store of the promoter’s choice 11. The prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and no cash alternatives will be offered. 12. You consent to any personal information you provide in entering the prize draw being used for the purposes of running the prize draw, and for those purposes as defined within Linmere’s privacy policy. 13. All entrants may apply for details of the winning participant by contacting us at info@linmere.com 14. The winner agrees to the release of their first name to any other prize draw participants, if requested. 15. All personal information shall be used in accordance with Linmere’s privacy policy. 16. Linmere reserves the right to cancel the prize draw or amend these terms and conditions at any time, without prior notice.