Priorities reviewed for a new Sustainable Community
Strategy
The Suffolk Coastal Local Strategic
Partnership (LSP) has reviewed its priorities for a new
Sustainable Community Strategy, the document which sets out
the goals for how the district should develop over the next
decade.
The LSP last updated its priorities in 2005 and recognised that
it was time to review them to take account of any significant
changes. It came up with its list of the ten key issues facing us
over the coming years, and consulted with people living in the
district to find out if they agree and whether there are things
they think are more important.
Four of these issues are already being tackled by the LSP and
its partners:
- Community safety.
- Estuary and coastal management.
- Housing.
- Providing support for vulnerable people of all ages to allow
them to live independent lives in our community.
A further six proposed priorities are the ones that the LSP will
now concentrate its efforts on:
- Access to services.
- Climate change and the environment.
- Community development.
- Economy, learning and skills.
- Health and well-being.
- Young people.
The LSP is made up of representatives from business, voluntary,
community and statutory organisations. More
information
about the work of the LSP (new window) can be found on its
website.
Have your say on the draft Sustainable Community Strategy
These priorities have been incorporated into the LSP's
draft Sustainable Community Strategy. The draft strategy sets
out the overall strategic direction and long-term vision for the
economic, social and environmental well-being of the Suffolk
Coastal district, and in a way that will be sustainable. The
LSP is now seeking views on its draft strategy from anyone who
lives or works in the district.
The full draft strategy can be found on the
LSP’s website (new window) along with an online
form that you can use to give your comments. The period for
responses closes on 10 October.
Suffolk Coastal 2021
In 2005, the publication 'Suffolk Coastal 2021' outlined the
LSP's vision for the district's future and the key issues that need
to be addressed to promote the social, economic and environmental
well-being of its communities. It also stated
the partnership's shared vision for the future of the
Suffolk Coastal district:
'building on the best of the present, it should be a
district where people want to live and to invest, to care for
others and the environment'.
To achieve this vision 'Suffolk Coastal 2021' identified twelve
key issues that need to be addressed:
- Feeling safe/being safe from crime.
- Affordable housing.
- Providing support for vulnerable adults and young people.
- Estuary and coastal management.
- Developing tourism, maritime and high technology
industries.
- Older people living in their own homes/communities.
- Tackling regeneration in priority areas like Felixstowe.
- Young people.
- Community development.
- Access to services.
- Healthy lifestyles.
- Economy, learning and skills.
The LSP adopted five of these issues as its priorities,
where it believed that the work of the partnership could make a
unique difference. These were:
- Young people.
- Community development.
- Access to services.
- Healthy lifestyles.
- Economy, learning and skills.
The other issues were being addressed by existing partnerships
and organisations such as the Suffolk Coastal Community
Safety Partnership and Suffolk Coastal District Council.
The LSP is monitoring achievements in these areas and
supporting the work of the partners where appropriate.
Follow this link to view the
'Suffolk Coastal 2021' (new window PDF
296KB) document in full.
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