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Originally Posted by Chris Cross
...This decision by HBC was based on a consultation with a total response of less than 1000 (great response HBC)...
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It's only when producing (meaningful) statistics that you need to make sure you're working from a large sample. If just one person responded to a consultation, theirs is the only opinion that is considered. Everyone else is deemed to "not care".
It's only a council consultation, anyway. The decision had probably already been made and the consultation was one of those irritating legal obligations they have to undergo to make the population feel like their voice is being listened to.