DRAFT North Somerset Sustainable Community Strategy 08 - 26.pdf

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Aim:Regenerate main town centresas locations for retail, civic andcultural activity with employmentand housing.‘Shopping area upgraded tolook more welcoming - plants,trees etc, building more fitting tovillage’ – Pill.related photo to be inserted?Aim:Climate Change issuesaddressed with businesses andenvironmental agencies.‘I believe that companies shouldbe made to recycle’ –Clevedon.related photo to be inserted?Improvements we want to see include:• New employment and business developmentopportunities provided to improve the balancebetween homes and jobs.• Town centre economy strengthened throughdevelopment of the night time economy and anexpansion of retail activity and leisureopportunities.• Key sites within the towns regenerated.• Town centre management arrangementsbetween public and private sectors in all maintowns.Improvements we want to see include:• Initiatives to reduce the carbon footprint ofbusinesses and help to tackle and adapt toclimate change undertaken.• Reduced energy and other resource usage,better travel planning, and better wastemanagement and effective environmentalmanagement systems.• Investment in flood defences so the area canadapt to the impact of Climate Change.• Uptake and/or development of newtechnologies to help combat climate change(new business opportunities).• Continue to promote and encourage tourismbusinesses to sign up for the Green TourismBusiness Scheme.Partnership priority: Developing a prosperous economy and enterprisingcommunity and Tackling Disadvantage and Promoting Equality ofOpportunityAim:Eradicate economic exclusion.‘Improving health & wellbeingcan be done not only throughmedical services but throughreducing poverty and bettereducation’ – Congresbury.related photo to be inserted?Improvements we want to see include:• Reduced inequalities in educational attainmentacross North Somerset.• Reduced number of young people not inEducation, Employment or Training.• Support neighbourhood regenerationprogrammes that bring together public agencies,local businesses and local people to seeksolutions that respond to local needs.• Better access to affordable communitybanking/finance initiatives.• Business start up programmes to encourage newbusiness in less prosperous areas of the district.42
Aim:Full access to learning, trainingand employment.‘I have problems findingaffordable childcare’ – Banwell.‘Reduce/subsidise fares, morefrequent services going to keyplaces e.g. colleges, library, andshopping centres’ – NorthSomerset.Improvements we want to see include:• Social enterprise to encourage a range ofpathways to work in disadvantaged areas.• Childcare and transport accessible in rural andless prosperous urban areas.• Looked after children supported after they havereached eighteen years of age in their furthereducation and employment needs.• Basic skills development for all adults who need it.• Better skills and realised potential among longtermunemployed people.How we will know if we are making progress:We will use a range of appropriate quality of life indicators to show change over time andwhere performance is to be monitored these will be identified within specific action plansdeveloped by the delivery partnerships.Quality of Life Indicators to monitor progress towards developing a prosperous economyand enterprising community• Accessibility to education facilities/health facilities & healthy food/employment.• Carbon Dioxide emissions by sector and per capita emissions.• Number of people who live in the most deprived 20% of areas nationally.• Percentage of the working-age population that is in employment.• Percentage of 15-year-old pupils in schools maintained by the local authorityachieving five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C or equivalent.• Difference between wards with worst health and deprivation indicators and thepopulation as a whole.• Percentage change in the number of VAT registered businesses.(To be shown alongside the total number of VAT registered businesses in the area atthe end of the year).• Percentage of residents who think that for their local area, over the past threeyears, that a) public transport has got better or stayed the same; b) the level oftraffic congestion has got better or stayed the same.43
Page 4 and 5: ForewordWelcome to the Sustainable
Page 6 and 7: To help us ensure that this strateg
Page 9 and 10: Managing RiskThe NSP will review ex
Page 11 and 12: people. Currently, 22% of the popul
Page 13 and 14: (some 11% of the national allocatio
Page 15 and 16: waiting for appropriate accommodati
Page 17 and 18: Improved basic skills and training
Page 19 and 20: The major development proposal for
Page 21 and 22: ‘Improve and maintain the range o
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Page 25 and 26: Strategies and Plans that will supp
Page 27 and 28: Examples of North Somerset Partners
Page 29 and 30: Partnership Priority: Ensuring Safe
Page 31 and 32: Strategies and Plans that will supp
Page 33 and 34: There is strong support for the pro
Page 35 and 36: Aim:Ensure older people haveaccess
Page 37 and 38: Quality of Life Indicators to monit
Page 39 and 40: Partnership Priority: Developing a
Page 41: Aim:Grow and develop business anden
Page 45 and 46: Partnership Priority: Living within
Page 47 and 48: Aim:Conserve resources and reducewa
Page 49 and 50: Aim:Ensure access to open spacesand
Page 51 and 52: Delivering our Sustainable Communit
Page 53 and 54: Appendix * - The North Somerset Sus
Page 55 and 56: Glossary and definitions(EGs)Afford
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