Criticisms
Similar to many other villages in Britain (particularly Southern England) Newton Saint Loe has not been exempt from accusations of class bias in the management of community life. The village was once a working class area full of farm labourers, estate workers and even miners. Today however the picture has dramatically changed with a major decline in community participation. The village hall and social club struggles regularly to keep its head above water to survive. Many newcomers to the village haven't appeared to engage with its working class roots. It is considered by some to be a new "yuppie ghetto". The limited range of community activities have also been regarded as indirectly undemocratic in its approach to serving the interests of only a select number of people in the village who are prepared to conform to the stereotypical English middle-upper class rule.
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