Consultation Hub

Trafford Council asked residents 26 questions relating to themselves and the proposals for the leisure centre in Altrincham via a survey and offered online group sessions as well as key stakeholder conversations.

The consultation was promoted using the Council’s and Trafford Leisure’s social media accounts, in press releases to the local media. and across various busy sites in Altrincham.

576 people responded to the consultation

53% were female and 43% were male.

12% were under the age of 35. 66% were between the ages of 35 and 54 and 18% were over 55.

54% were physically active for over 150minutes a week.

You said the main reasons for not currently using the centre more were focused on the condition, parking options and lack of facilities.

76% of respondents welcomed the proposals for the cafe and reception.

78% of respondents welcomed the proposals for the sports halls and studios including the immersive spin studio.

74% of respondents welcomed the proposals for the fitness suite (gym) and changing rooms.

71% or respondents welcomed the proposals for the Spa / Wellbeing area.

The priority facilities / Activities were highlighted as the swimming pools followed by the fitness suite (gym), fitness classes, the spa / wellbeing area, the sports hall and cafe.

The results and outputs from this consultation have been analysed and helped to inform the designs that have been agreed at Trafford Council's Executive. The objective is to now develop the proposals in line with the feedback received with a construction partner in to a planning application later in 2022 and then is successful in to a construction period from 2023.

About how you engage with children and young people to improve your services.

Some of you had explicit strategies while others didn't. The most common ways you involved children and young people were through a suggestion box, involving them in planning and running events and having an easily accessible complaints policy. You would all be happy to sign up for a Trafford wide pledge to our children and young people.

We are currently working with children and young people to finalise our strategy going forward. This includes a pledge to our children and young people written with our children and young people. Once the pledge is finalised we will send it out for consultation with you before asking you to sign up to it.

The Access Trafford Customer Survey  was carried out for 30 days by asking residents who recently contacted Access Trafford by phone and email to complete a short survey to help us gain valuable insight into what we do well and where we can improve.  Thank you to the 150 residents who took the time to provide us with your valuable feedback. 

We asked you the following questions to help us forward plan and improve our service to you.

• Did you try to use the Trafford Council website before contacting Access Trafford by email or telephone?
• How you found the advice given by our Customer Service Advisors
• To rate the professionalism and friendliness of our Customer Service Advisors
•  How you found waiting times when contacting us by telephone.
• We also wanted to know about you, so we can better understand our customer base and ensure we are reaching all our residents. We asked, aged, ethnicity and where in Trafford you reside.

• Surprisingly over 45%  of respondents told us they had tried to find information on the website before contacting Access Trafford via email and telephone.
• 75% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that our Customer Service advisors were able to resolve their query over the phone.
• 79% rated the Customer Service Advisors professionalism either excellent or very good
• 83% rated the Customer Service Advisors willingness to help as either excellent or very good.
• 73% thought that the advisors ability to resolve the query was either excellent or very good.
•  80% of respondents agreed, or strongly agreed that calls were answered in a satisfactory time period.

As over 45% of respondents had tried to use the Council website before contacting  Access Trafford. We analysed the comments received to work on improving the Council Website.  Comments mentioned out of date information, difficulties making online payments and navigation of the website.  The information from our survey was discussed with the Web Team who working on improving the content and accessibility.

The Access Trafford Contact Centre does not deal with waste or highway issues, this is a One Trafford Service that is provided by Amey on behalf of the Council. The information regarding bin pages on the website and ordering  green waste bags has been passed to One Trafford.  Improvements have been made to the website content and processes to improve the customer experience.

The  next  Access Trafford customer survey will be winter 2021.