Report - London Borough of Hillingdon

• Continuing investment in front line services including parks, the environment
and libraries
• Improvements in library stock, opening hours and in library buildings
• The Chrysalis environmental programme with £0.75m available each year
• Additional funding for Youth Services of £0.8m
• Support for improvements in our town centres
The Cultural Strategy has to work closely with the Community Plan for the borough.
Working together for a better future sets out six key aims for the Council and its
key partners, including Brunel University, the Police and the Primary Care Trust, to
regenerate and modernise Hillingdon and to develop strong, secure, self confident
and healthy communities. The aims are to make Hillingdon:
• A borough of learning and culture
• A safer borough
• A cleaner and more pleasant borough
• A borough with improving health, housing and social care
• An economically prosperous borough
• A borough where opportunities are open to all
The vision of the Local Strategic Partnership is to ensure Hillingdon is a pleasant and
vibrant place to live and work, where every member of its communities has access to
excellent services and the opportunity to fulfil their potential. This links in turn to the
vision and ambition of creating a borough 'where cultural, leisure and educational
opportunities are open to all children, young people and adults to improve their skill
levels, education and creativity so as to enhance their working and leisure lives'.
(Community Plan 2003/04).
The implementation of the Cultural Strategy is best linked with the Community Plan.
Both plans have at their core the intention to improve the quality of life of local
people, both actively seek to broaden opportunities for all sections of the community,
the delivery of both will be through a rich mix of providers and their aims and
objectives are determined by local views and aspirations. A process will need to be
developed to enable proposed cultural activities to be included in the prioritisation for
inclusion in the Community Plan.
National policy initiatives and research
Culture’s contribution to improving the well-being of communities increasingly
features in the emerging policy initiatives and proposals.
The Statement of Shared Priorities (2003) that sets out central and local
government’s commitment to improving local services through investment and
reform focuses on quality of life issues. Culture can make a substantial contribution
to the delivery of crosscutting themes such as:
• Raising standards in schools
• Improving the quality of life of children, young people, families at risk and
older people
• Creating safer and stronger communities
PART I – MEMBERS & PUBLIC (INCLUDING THE PRESS)
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