DRAFT North Somerset Sustainable Community Strategy 08 - 26.pdf

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Strategies and Plans that will support our progressSecuring the Future: UKGovernment SustainableDevelopment StrategyClimate ChangeStrategy and ActionPlan (Dec 2006)Sustainable CommunitiesStrategy: Building for theFutureLiving within environmentallimitsSouth WestBiodiversity ActionAction for Nature,North SomersetBiodiversity ActionPlan 2005Local DevelopmentFrameworkStrategic Flood RiskAssessmentWasteDevelopmentFrameworkLiving within environmental limitsHow you can support our work programme:• Find out more about recycling opportunities in North Somerset. Tel: 01275 888802.• Don't forget the fortnightly green box collection will collect paper, glass, steel andaluminium cans, aluminium foil, textiles and shoes.• Buy a composter. Tel: 01275 888509.• Encourage wildlife into your garden. Contact the North Somerset Wildlife Wardens Tel:01761 462276.• Reduce the amount of energy you use in your home – for advice contact 01934634807.• Report pollution and fly-tipping Tel 0800 807060.50
Delivering our Sustainable Community StrategyThis Sustainable Community Strategy is our planning framework for improvingquality of life and opportunities across the area. It brings together our sharedpriorities and key aims for the area, with illustrative examples of improvements wewill consider and prioritise through the development of our delivery plans andfollowing action. It will:• Influence development of new strategies and plans for North Somerset.• Reduce duplication of effort by bringing together key actions that contribute toour wellbeing.• ‘Add value’ to existing and future work where appropriate.• Inform other plans at a sub regional and regional level to enable NorthSomerset priorities to be recognised and prioritised accordingly.Through the implementation of our strategy, we will demonstrate how our strategicaims translate into practical action to make a real and lasting difference topeople living in, working in and visiting our area.The North Somerset Partnership (NSP) Delivery StructureNSP BoardThe Board membership includes a range of public, private, community andvoluntary organisations. It will oversee the work described in this strategy and hasultimate responsibility for it, through reviewing and evaluating progress. Thepartnership will receive quarterly updates on actions and will consider successesand any short falls in progress to determine how these can be addressed together.NSP Delivery Partnerships and ForumsThe Board works with thematic delivery partnerships/forums with membership alsodrawn from across sectors. This gives a broad range of views to inform andinfluence the direction of our work, and oversee its delivery.Each delivery partnership works to prioritise, plan, and deliver key work thatsupports their specific theme. The delivery partnerships work together to achievesynergy between partnerships when delivering cross-cutting shared objectives.Where the aims and improvements agreed by NSP are not already part of anexisting delivery plan, these will be reviewed and prioritised by the relevantdelivery partnership and new actions will be determined and agreed. DeliveryPartnership progress is monitored quarterly.NSP Stakeholders and North Somerset CommunitiesNSP holds a stakeholder event every year to discuss progress and consider futurework. This event is open to all organisations and community representatives withan interest in NSP work, and provides a wider opportunity to link complimentarywork programmes and influence the direction of this strategy.Communities across the area contribute to our work programme in a range ofways, through community led activities such as parish/town planning or theircontributions to public and voluntary and community services, projects andinitiatives. Local people have helped to shape this work programme and willcontinue to do so through consultation and engagement during itsimplementation.51
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Page 41 and 42: Aim:Grow and develop business anden
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Page 47 and 48: Aim:Conserve resources and reducewa
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