ANSWER S1 Q1: The total population of the Civil Parish of Yateley and the parishes of Eversley and Hawley is about 26,000. The population of the 3 Yateley wards within the Civil Parish of Yateley was 15,395 in the 2001 census. The population of Yateley is evenly spread throughout the 3 Yateley wards, each having a population about 5,100. The census has split each ward into 3 LSOAs of between 600 and 750 people. Most of the population lives on post WW2 housing estates. The population of the whole of the Civil Parish of Yateley, including the Frogmore & Darby Green ward was 21,011 in 2001.

 

Yateley's Frogmore & Darby Green Ward is separated from the 3 Yateley wards by a 'stategic gap', but this ward has no separation with the Blackwater Ward of Hawley. Blackwater, Hawley, Cove and Minley used to be included, with Cove, in the original Parish of Yateley, which was historically split into inner and outer tythings, the present civil parish being, more or less, the old inner tything. All these towns and villages now form, with Eversley and Sandhurst, the northern part of the Blackwater Valley Towns. Sandhurst has some links with Yateley, but has not be included in Yateley's hinterland since its focus tends to be to Berkshire and to Camberley. Cove is now contiguous with Farnborough.

This is an additional question

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SEEDA List of Small Market Towns in the South East

ANSWER S1 Q1A: Yateley appears on the SEEDA list as eligible to carry out a Market Town Heath Check, listed as one of the category D towns in Hampshire. Category D status implies that Yateley has a population of between 15,000 and 20,000. SEEDA's information sheet states No towns over the limit of 20,000 population have been included. The town must have a hinterland and serve several smaller rural communities.

 

Yateley Civil Parish had a population of 21,011 in 2001. Yateley grew rapidly from a rural village of 4,469 inhabitants in 1961 to its present population of over 20,000 by 1981. Yateley has continued to grow in numbers of new houses built, but the population has been stable for 25 years because of decreasing family size. Because of it rapid, mainly unplanned expansion Yateley is still an overgrown village with no comparison shopping and very little conventional employment. Many local people will critise Yateley for being without the proper ameities and facilities for a town of its size. Most people therefore commute from Yateley for employment, shop elsewhere for anything more than convenience goods, and seek leisure and sports activities in the surrounding larger towns. Yateley is therefore itself the hinterland of other towns, and might not be expected to be included in a list of so-called market towns.

However SEEDA's list of qualifying towns contains a list of criteria which towns must meet. Yateley fully meets all these criteria. Surprisingly Yateley not only serves smaller local rural communities but it also plays a considerable local, regional, national and even international role in very special provisions.

 

We therefore answer how Yateley complies with SEEDA's criteria:

 

(a) Yateley has two medium sized supermarkets: Waitrose and Somerfield. Waitrose attracts customers from nearby villages, and from Hartley Wintney and Hook. Yateley also has two Tesco Express stores, a Coop and a One-Stop -- all late opening attracting trade from surrounding villages and passing trade. A survey by Jones, Lang, Lasalle in 2002, for the Health Check Snapshot, concluded that Yateley had a reasonable range of national retail chains. Blackbushe Sunday Market is the largest Sunday Market in the country. It has been claimed that a Sunday Market operating one day per week on a Sunday does not make Yateley a market town. This is true in the conventional meaning of 'market town'. However many market towns qualify for the name by holding a small market on a single weekday.

 

(b) Yateley has a good range of key services: their is a good library, two branches of clearing banks, firms of accountants and solicitors, and a health centre and two other large practices serving a wide area locally. The Red Cross Centre's ambulance in one of only two in Hampshire. There are also a very wide range of leisure facilities, ranging from Blackbushe Airport where you can learn to fly; water sports, including waterskiing, jetskiing, and sailing; a Health Centre at Frogmore; coarse fishing lakes which are internationally renowned; a 9 hole golf house and extensive sports fields in Sean Devereau Park; many facilities for horseriders including livery, informal riding and a longstanding eventing site,providing regional finals which as been visited by royalty and subsequent olympic participants on their way to Badminton and Horse of the Year Show.

 

(c) Although employment workplaces in Yateley are not sufficient to meet Yateley's overall needs, Blackbushe Business Park is the home to long established specialist manufacturers having international standing in their markets. The largest employer is British Car Auctions. The action site spans the border between Yateley and Eversley. BCA also owns Blackbushe Airport and runs Blackbushe Sunday Market. Sims Metal, an Australian company, has taken over the business of Blackbushe Metals, having a very large metal fragmentiser to recyle cars and other sources of metal.

 

(d) Yateley still has two schools providing full secondary education, although the 6th Form of Frogmore is destined to close. This makes Yateley fairly unique in Hampshire. Yateley Manor School is a large private preparatory school licensed for up to 550 pupils. Its catchment area extends to Odiham, Hartley Wintney, Hook, Camberley, and Bracknell. The school operates an extensive private coach service to these towns.

 

(e) Yateley Town Council administers local government from its offices on Yateley Green.

ANSWER S1 Q2: The size of the population of Yateley aged over 65 in 2001 was considerably smaller than either in the South East Region or nationally. The over 65s in Yateley West Ward only amounted to 35% of the national percentage. Yateley East contained the highest number of older people at just over 80% of the national percentage.

Ward	Over 65	Percent	Aged 60-64	Percent
Yateley West	291	5.7%	20	4.0%
Frogmore & DG	520	9.3%	298	5.3%
Yateley North	48	9.5%	274	5.4%
Yateley East	694	13.4%	262	5.6
South East Region	832,774	16.4%	386,002	4.8%
	England&Wales	1,308,622	16.0%	2,544,754	4.9%

 

 

The above table shows that about 5% of the population of Yateley in 2001 was aged between 60 and 64 years old. If these people have remained in Yateley they will now be mostly retired. However even if we add these to those over 65 in 2001, and this group are all still living in Yateley, the total over 65 in 2006 will still be below the national and regional norms. About half those in the 60-64 age bracket in 2001 would have been females. We have not answered question S1 Q2 as put, prefering to find out those residents actually retired in 2001.

 

ANSWER S1 Q3: The size of population of Yateley aged under 16 in 2001 was larger than either in the South East Region or nationally. Wards which had smaller populations over 65 had larger populations under 16

 

Ward	Under 16	Percent
Yateley West	1,184	23.0%
Frogmore & DG	1,257	22.4%
Yateley North	1,112	21.9%
Yateley East	1,056	20.4%
South East Region	1,594,219	19.9%
England & Wales	10,488,736	16.0%

ANSWER S1 Q4: (a) The total number of people employed in the Yateley wards in 2001 is given in the table below, divided into the three Yateley wards. This table also provides data on full and part-time employment, and distinquishes between employees, and the self employed with and without employees.

 

		Yateley East	Yateley North	Yateley West	Yateley Total
All people Employed		2736	2886	3139	8761
Employees	Part time	563	641	715	1919
	Full time	1824	1926	2101	5851
Self-employed without employees	Part time	65	52	63	180
	Full time	190	177	168	535
Self-employed with employees	Part time	16	18	15	49
	Full time	78	72	77	227

Source: Census 2001

 

Answers (b),(c),(d) and (e): The table below shows how many people were employed in 2001 with residences in the three Yateley Wards split into each of the Standard Occupational Categories (SOC) 2000 edition. The bottom two lines of the table sums the data for professional & managerial jobs and semi-skilled, manual and unskilled jobs respectively, calculates the percentage of the total population in each of these two larger occupational groupings, and compares the Yateley results with Hart District and national percentages.

 

The largest category of Yateley employees (about one fifth) fall into the top category of managers and senior officials (SOC1). Almost half of Yateley employees are in professional and managerial jobs. However at 47% of the total Yateley falls almost exactly half way between Hart (54%) and the national figure of 40%. Just over a quarter of Yateley's employees are in SOC categories 6 to 9. This is slightly higher than Hart but considerably better than the national figure

 

Employment by occupation	Yateley East	Yateley North	Yateley West	Yateley Wards	Yateley %	Hart %	GB %
1. Managers & senior officials	524	573	664	1761	20.6	22.3	14.9
2. Professional	306	359	438	1103	12.9	15.2	11.2
3. Associate professional & technical	374	396	456	1226	14.4	17.0	13.9
4. Administrative & technical	396	457	483	1336	15.7	13.7	13.2
5. Skilled trades	317	300	290	907	10.6	9.1	11.8
6. Personal services	173	187	174	534	6.3	5.6	6.9
7. Sales & customer service	172	205	246	623	7.3	5.9	7.7
8. Pocess plant & machine operatives	134	134	125	393	4.6	4.1	8.7
9. Elementary occupations	235	213	203	651	7.6	7.1	11.8
TOTAL	2631	2824	3079	8534	100.0
1-4 Professional & managerial	1204	1328	1558	4090	47.9	54	40
6-9 Semi- unskilled & manual	714	739	748	2201	25.8	23	35

 

Source: NOMIS 2003 based on 2001 census results

 

The results for the split in occupational classes in Yateley in 2001 appears to indicate a significant change in socio-economic status from the 1991 census. In 1991 individual socio-economic grouping were categoried differently (SEGs 1-11), the results included the Frogmore & Darby Green Ward, and they were calculated from a 10% sample. However it seems that Yateley people had improved their socio-economic status in the ten years between the two census dates.

 

Employed in 1991	Yateley Parish	%	Hart	%
High SEGs (1-5)	4,720	41.4%	19,240	49.0%
Low SEGs (6-11)	6,680	58.6%	20,030	51.0%
All SEGs (1-11)	11,400	100%	39,270	100%

ANSWER S1 Q6: The Civil Parish of Yateley contains 4 wards made up of a total of 13 Lower Level Super Output Areas:

 

LSOA	Ward	Households	Residents	Deprivation Rank	Name
Hart 001A	Yateley East	606	1494	21496	Manor Park
Hart 001B	Yateley East	627	1709	31906	CricketHill/Potley Hill
Hart 001C	Yateley East	777	1965	32281	Church End/Vigo E/Mill Ln
Hart 001D	Yateley North	618	1666	31686	Village Way & Green
Hart 001E	Yateley North	618	1530	29760	Moulsham
Hart 002B	Yateley North	741	1882	32214	Monteagle Park (Heron)
Hart 002C	Yateley West	597	1689	32469	Tudor Drive
Hart 002D	Yateley West	626	1754	32028	Wordsworth & Lymington
Hart 002E	Yateley West	601	1706	31160	Poets/Handford
Hart 003D	Frogmore & DG	505	1382	30747	Frogmore
Hart 003E	Frogmore & DG	492	1495	22382	Beaulieu
Hart 003F	Frogmore & DG	498	1365	31463	Darby Green
Hart 003G	Frogmore & DG	534	1374	31326	The Flats/Frogmore Green

 

The total number of households in the Civil Parish is 7,840 with a total population of 21,011. There are thus 2.7 persons per household.

ANSWER S1 Q7: The population of Yateley in 2001 had declined slightly since 1991 from 21,613 in 1991 to 20,011. The reason for this decline was a substantial decrease in the number of persons living in each household: 2.9 in 1991 against 2.7 in 2001. In this ten year period the number of houses had increased by almost 400.

 

In fact Yateley in 2001 had a total population in the Civil Parish only slightly greater than in 1981: 20,011 compared with 20,449 in 1981. In 1981 Yateley's dwelling stock was only 6,822, and the household size was significantly larger than now. This is not surprising considering that the dwelling stock, mainly built since 1961, was predominently of 3 bedroom semi-detached and terraced housing, as starter homes to accommodate young families. Twenty-five years later the children of those 1981 families who have stayed in Yateley will have left home, and probably Yateley.

 

In 1961 Yateley was still a rural village community of only 4,469 inhabitants. In the 20 years between 1961 and 1981 Yateley expanded by a factor of 4.5 times.

S1 Q8

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Census of Population

ANSWER S1 Q8: This is an additional question. In the Deprivation Index Hart was ranked 354 out of 354 Local Authorities based on the average deprivation scores of its constituent LSOAs, and had a rank of 349 on the income measure. Hart was thus on average the top scoring least deprived District in the country. It is therefore information to find out how Lower Level Super Output Areas in Yateley fared in each of the eight categories which make up the multiple index.

 

In the following table the results for Yateley's LSOAs and some in the surrounding district, have been sorted in HEALTH withe the poorest performing areas at the top of the table:

 

LSOA	Multiple Rank	Name or area	Income	Employment	Health	Education	Housing Services	Living Environment	Crime
Hart 001A	21496	Manor Park	12376	20128	22065	18044	29829	20386	25318
Hart 001E	29760	Moulsham	23250	30668	30905	23434	1601	326312	29616
Hart 001C	32281	Church End/Vigo E/Mill Ln	32033	30912	30914	26641	27239	29064	28541
Hart 003G	31326	The Flats/Frogmore Green	28961	31746	31495	25380	32183	22915	17318
Hart 003F	31463	Darby Green	30721	31041	31506	24957	32154	23876	16964
Hart 003E	22382	Beaulieu	12667	29833	31709	11689	2902	524640	12368
Hart 003D	30747	Frogmore	27901	30899	31836	19365	28020	25336	22115
Hart 001D	31686	Village Way & Green	27840	32152	31874	26767	27889	25392	22245
Hart 003B	30660	Hawley urban	28792	30817	31922	25713	27461	15949	21126
Hart 002C	32469	Tudor Drive	32286	32296	32112	27002	32322	28293	32357
Hart 003A	30050	Minley	31053	31813	32126	29815	5434	25457	29679
Hart 001B	31906	CricketHill/Potley Hill	30803	31379	32203	27226	22295	26596	25242
Hart 002A	27733	Eversley	27873	31878	32400	28993	5520	21037	18437
Hart 002D	32028	Wordsworth & Lymington	32114	32348	32414	30408	14513	28548	28293
Hart 002E	31160	Poets/Handford	30609	32062	32438	28289	16595	22521	21587
Hart 002B	32214	Monteagle Park (Heron)	29797	32311	32448	27304	30761	26864	24039

 

Skills & Training have been omitted and will be found elsewhere.