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Part One – The Story So Far
Sustainable
Community Strategy
The Wolverhampton Sustainable Community
Strategy (SCS) is about the people of
Wolverhampton and the places where they
live. It describes the kind of City that residents,
organisations and stakeholders would like
Wolverhampton to be by 2026:
“By 2026, Wolverhampton will be a City
where people can thrive. The economy is
transformed and the gap in health, wealth
and prosperity between communities and
neighbourhoods in the City is substantially
reduced. Wolverhampton is a place with safe,
strong, diverse and popular neighbourhoods;
a place where everyone has an improved
quality of life and the chance to reach his or
her full potential and where the benefits of the
City’s growth are widely shared.”
In short, we intend Wolverhampton to be
known as a “City where people can thrive”.
The Strategy also identifies seven targets for
the City to be achieved by 2026:
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Our population will have
grown to at least 252,000.
We will match the Government’s
target of 40% of our population
having a Level 4 qualification.
We will have built at least an
additional 10,250 homes
We will match the national
average life expectancy of age
82 for men and 85 for women.
We will have an employment
rate of at least 76%.
The majority of the City’s
residents will feel safe.
We will reduce our carbon emissions
to 4.9 tonnes per person
The LDF, including the AAP, will have a
positive impact in delivering the vision and
the targets of the SCS.
Local Neighbourhood
Partnerships
The AAP Vision also needs to be informed by
priorities identified at the local neighbourhood
level through Local Neighbourhood
Partnerships (LNP’s). There are 15 LNPs
across the City bringing together all the
interests in the area: local people, local
community groups, councillors, voluntary
and community sector partners and public
sector organisations 1 . The AAP area includes
significant parts of Bilston East and Ettingshall
LNPs and smaller parts of East Park, Bilston
North, Heathfield Park and Spring Vale LNPs.
Each LNP prepared an updated Action Plan in
2009, following extensive resident consultation,
to establish a vision, aspirations and priorities
for their neighbourhood up to 2026. These
Action plans should be reflected in the AAP
Vision and help shape the development of the
Options stage of the AAP.
The vision for Bilston East LNP is to tackle
crime and community safety problems,
improve the quality of public space and
traffic management, and increase leisure,
community and health services available to
local people, including young people.
The LNP aims to engage residents
and businesses in regeneration and
neighbourhood renewal decisions, including
joined-up working on Bilston Urban Village,
which will in turn raise aspirations of attaining
higher skill levels and economic well being.
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Further information is available from
http://www.wton-partnership.org.uk
16 Bilston Corridor Area Action Plan - Issues Paper