DRAFT North Somerset Sustainable Community Strategy 08 - 26.pdf

About our Sustainable Community StrategyThe purpose of a Sustainable Community Strategy is to improve theeconomic, social and environmental well-being of an area, and tocontribute to the achievement of sustainable development in the UK 1 .North Somerset Partnership has developed this Sustainable CommunityStrategy, its vision and six shared priorities, by bringing together our strongevidence base of local views and statistical data. It is our long-term planto improve quality of life and opportunities locally by joining up servicesand tackling complex issues in a coherent and integrated way, tosupport the development of sustainable communities.Our vision:‘That North Somerset is a place of sustainable, inclusive, safe, healthycommunities, thriving in a quality environment’.Our shared prioritiesTo reach our vision, we have developed six shared priorities. They are:• Tackle disadvantage and promote equality of opportunity.• Developing strong inclusive communities.• Ensuring safer communities.• Improving Health and Wellbeing.• Developing a prosperous economy and enterprising community.• Living within environmental limits.Each of these shared priorities has a section in this strategy, except ourpriority to tackle disadvantage and promote equality of opportunity,which threads throughout all the shared priorities. In this way, ourcommitment to an ‘improved quality of life for all’ is put into practicethrough all our work programmes.To develop these priorities we considered:• National, regional and local trends.• Data and views from across our partnership.• Partner organisations’ consultations and key issues identified in localparish plans.• The views of people who joined in our consultation activities andevents. (For further information about our consultation programmeplease see appendix *.)Insert photos of consultation events5