Sustainable Community Strategy
The Local Government Act 2000 placed a duty on every local authority to prepare a Community Strategy and also introduced the concept of Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP's).
In 2001, North Warwickshire responded to this challenge and established a Local Strategic Partnership known locally as the North Warwickshire Community Partnership. This is responsible for the delivery of the North Warwickshire Sustainable Community Strategy.
Since 2001, much progress has been made to increase representation, establish a common vision, move to genuine collaborative working and address sustainable development. The Partnership has also adopted policy developments arising from the introduction of Local Area Agreements, Narrowing the Gap, Local Development Frameworks and the desire to create sustainable communities.
Promotion of the North Warwickshire Vision and ensuring that it is taken into account in all plans, strategies and initiatives is essential to the success of the Partnership, so that theme priorities are acted upon.
What does the North Warwickshire Community Partnership do?
The Partnerships aim is to improve the way that local services are planned and delivered. The local authority provides the administration and coordination for the North Warwickshire Community Partnership.
The partnership has no additional resources of its own but relies on negotiations and pooling of resources between partners.
The role of the partnership and North Warwickshire Sustainable Community Strategy is to:
- Help improve public services through improved planning between public sector agencies and partners
- Improve local quality of life through a long-term vision shared by partners
- Involve local people in decided the sort of community they want now and for future generations
- Has an action plan explaining who will be responsible for delivering priorities and when and sets out how progress will be monitored, reviewed and reported on