Meeting Rooms Survey

Location:  Painswick, Stroud Road

Room name:  Library Meeting Room (upper floor).

1.  Publicly availability:

Please indicate whether room is generally available for public hire, whether there are any time or other restrictions on its use.

Yes.  Restricted to 40 people.  No dancing..

2.  Room size:

Please indicate floor area and shape, and ceiling height.

Appoximately: 22ft x 28ft; 13ft high (beams across).

3.  Appearance:

Please describe the decorative state of the room (e.g. style and when last decorated).

Adequate decorative state.  Last decorated quite a while ago.

4.  Lighting:

Please describe the nature of artificial lighting and its effectiveness.  Please also describe whether darkness can be created during the day e.g. for slide shows etc and its effectiveness.

6 fluorescent strip lights.  Good effectiveness.  Large windows for daylight.

Blinds on only some windows.  Do not provide darkness during daylight.

5.  Heating:

Please describe the room heating arrangements and their effectiveness in cold weather.  Please also comment on any ventilation or air conditioning available and its effectiveness.

Gas central heating – effective.

No air-conditioning.

6.  Seating and Tables:

Please describe how many seats are available, and indicate their style (eg wood/foldaway/small/benches/etc) and quality.  And similarly for tables.

Tables (8 – of which 3 are smaller card tables).

Chairs (about 50).

7.  Toilet facilities:

Please indicate the number of toilets available and their nature

1 WC upstairs.

8.  Parking:

Please indicate what parking arrangements are available

None at library building itself.  Stamages Lane car park close by.

9.  Presentation facilities:

Please describe what presentation equipment is available.  Presentation facilities include: projectors for slides and/or film and/or computer images, screens, microphones and audio equipment (including for recorded music), staging and special lighting for staging, etc.  Please also indicate its effectiveness, and whether users are allowed to bring and use their own equipment.

None.

10.  Kitchen facilities:

Please describe what kitchen facilities are available.  Eg crockery / glasses / washing up / fridge & freezer / cooking.

Kitchen:  17ft x 8ft.

Kettle and sink.  Crockery: about 3 dozen cups/saucers and plates.

11.  Bar facilities: 

Please describe what bar facilities are available and any restrictions.

None.

12.  Foyer facilities:

Please describe what foyer facilities are available (outside the meeting room itself)

Small entrance area.

13.  Storage facilities: 

Please describe what storage facilities are available for users. 

None.

14.  Disabled access:

Please describe what disabled access arrangements there are.

No.

15.  Other facilities:

Please describe any other facilities or features available at the meeting room.  This might include staff on site, sports equipment, entertainments license, picture rails, etc

Piano.

16.  Occupancy levels

Please indicate occupancy levels (ie % of time used)

Exhibitions during summer, otherwise little used two evenings a week.

	Week-days	Saturdays	Sundays
Mornings	20%	20%	20%
Afternoons	20%	20%	20%
Evenings	50%	20%	20%

17.  Changes planned:

Please indicate any changes or improvements planned and their status (e.g. wish list, planned but no funding, etc).  Exclude general maintenance.

Potentially part of the Gateway Project.

Name of person completing pro-forma:  Kath Pritchard.

Date: 3 February 2009