As you are aware SMILE recently carried out a survey of village residents to demonstrate the need for a village hall for Stoney Middleton. The purpose of this was to enable us to approach funders, to generate the still significant shortfall in funds to enable the build to proceed

However, the results of the survey have indicated that whilst there is a real desire for increased connection and cohesion amongst village residents, it did not evidence anything like the sort of demand that would c...