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FOR THE MANY,<br />
NOT THE FEW<br />
SOUTHAMPTON LABOUR GROUP<br />
OUR LOCAL ELECTION<br />
MANIFESTO PRIORITIES FOR 2018<br />
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Our Top 20 Manifesto Pledges in Brief<br />
Housing and Homes<br />
Labour will:<br />
1. build a minimum of a thousand council<br />
owned homes to rent over the next five<br />
years<br />
2. establish its own house building factory<br />
which employs local people to build<br />
homes for local people<br />
3. complete its current citywide<br />
programme of fitting sprinklers to all<br />
council high-rise blocks<br />
4. ensure that the HMO licence scheme in<br />
the central wards is renewed and we<br />
will also seek to use compulsory<br />
purchase powers on long-term empty<br />
homes to bring them back into use<br />
Our Environment<br />
Labour will:<br />
9. launch its own council owned energy<br />
company (CitizEN) and reinvest its profits<br />
into alleviating fuel poverty for<br />
Southampton’s residents<br />
10. press neighbouring local councils to<br />
expand the County’s waste recycling<br />
facilities to allow a wider range of<br />
materials to be recycled (e.g. plastics)<br />
11. tackle air pollution with a range of<br />
measures including introduction of a<br />
Clean Air Zone by 2019 with charges for<br />
the most polluting HGV’s taxis and buses<br />
Economy and Employment<br />
Labour will:<br />
15. bring forward plans to regenerate large<br />
sections of our city centre creating 4,000<br />
homes and exciting leisure and job<br />
opportunities<br />
16. progress construction of a state-of-theart<br />
Leisure and Health hub at Bitterne<br />
precinct<br />
17. increase the number of local<br />
apprenticeship opportunities directly<br />
within the Council and with<br />
organisations where we have contracts;<br />
we will also provide a minimum of fifty<br />
well paid council apprenticeships a year<br />
Roads and Transport<br />
Labour will:<br />
5. invest in an improved pothole repair<br />
service where we will see potholes fixed<br />
in days rather than weeks or months<br />
6. increase spending on roads and<br />
pavement resurfacing; we pledge to<br />
complete a hundred schemes next year<br />
focusing on small residential roads and<br />
cycle routes<br />
7. clean up Southampton by investing<br />
£400,000 in extra street cleaning;<br />
amounting to over 20,000 extra hours of<br />
work to spruce up our city<br />
8. explore opportunities for ensuring<br />
subsidised bus pass provision for women<br />
denied by Government fair access to<br />
their pensions as highlighted by the<br />
campaign group Women Against State<br />
Pension Inequality (WASPI)<br />
Care for our Most Vulnerable<br />
Labour will:<br />
12. help Care Leavers to support their start<br />
into independent living by exempting<br />
them from paying Council Tax<br />
13. increase investment in advice services<br />
for those most impacted by the<br />
Government’s benefit changes<br />
14. sign up to UNISON’s Ethical Care and<br />
Residential Care Charters ending 15-<br />
minute care visits and providing care<br />
workers with paid travel time<br />
Our Communities<br />
Labour will:<br />
18. continue its programme of investing in<br />
Council play parks starting with Mansel<br />
Park and then Riverside Park<br />
19. invest in Christmas lighting for our main<br />
district shopping centres in Shirley,<br />
Portswood, and Woolston<br />
20. ensure that Southampton remains a<br />
welcoming city to our many diverse<br />
communities and adopt a zero<br />
tolerance approach to hate crime by<br />
promoting a third party reporting<br />
scheme<br />
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Southampton has strong and sustainable economic Growth<br />
Our Top Priorities:<br />
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Labour will build a minimum of a thousand council owned homes to rent in<br />
the next five years<br />
Labour will bring forward plans to regenerate large sections of our city<br />
centre creating 4,000 homes and exciting leisure and job opportunities<br />
Labour will establish its own house building factory which will employ local<br />
people to build homes for local people<br />
Labour will progress construction of a state-of-the-art Leisure and Health<br />
hub at Bitterne precinct.<br />
Other Key Commitments<br />
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Labour will update the Council’s ethical procurement model by drawing<br />
on the approach pioneered successfully by the Labour Council in Preston<br />
in order to source more goods and services locally<br />
Labour will establish a Local Authority Trading Company (LATCO) to bid<br />
for commercial work and then reinvest profits into other Council services/<br />
projects<br />
Labour will work with a range of partners to build a new state-of-the-art<br />
water sports centre next to the Itchen Bridge<br />
Improved Economic Development and Employment<br />
The way out of poverty is through well paid work. We have created more jobs in the<br />
city and now need to work with groups furthest from a return to work to help them<br />
play their part in the city’s growing economy. We also need to close the pay gap<br />
between those that are employed in the city and those that live here. Southampton<br />
residents should get the benefit of economic growth.<br />
The City Council is increasingly dependent on business rates to support vital public<br />
services, so bringing investment into the city to regenerate areas of the city centre is<br />
vital. The more we can grow our business rates, the more we can fund vital services<br />
to residents without relying on cash from Westminster.<br />
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Labour will work with partners to build a conference and concert venue as part of<br />
the redevelopment of the waterfront. Labour will work with our universities and sports<br />
clubs to build a water sports centre next to the Itchen Bridge. Labour will continue to<br />
progress with the construction of a State-of-the-art Leisure destination on the east of<br />
the city with extra-care affordable housing built on freed up sites.<br />
We inherited the worst industrial relations in local government from the previous Tory<br />
administration. We have worked hard to improve these and ensured that workers<br />
representatives are consulted about all major decisions. We have not lost one day<br />
to strike action in five years. We are committed to investing in our staff and<br />
promoting from within. We will establish the LATCO to bid for commercial work, as<br />
we have confidence in our staff and the services provide, and reinvest the profits<br />
into council services/projects.<br />
Housing Regeneration – Affordable Homes for sustainable Living<br />
The country is in a housing crisis and hasn’t built enough homes to house our<br />
population for thirty years. This shortage is driving up prices both to buy and rent. We<br />
need a public sector -led home building programme to deliver eco-friendly homes<br />
of all tenures.<br />
Labour will bring forward plans to regenerate large sections of our city centre<br />
creating 4,000 homes as well as exciting leisure and job opportunities. Labour will<br />
safeguard industrial land and use our land ownership and planning powers to bring<br />
the high tech industries of the future to Southampton.<br />
A Labour Council will invest in homes to rent; our target is to build a thousand homes<br />
in the next five years, all of them rented out by the council. We could do much more<br />
if we had a government committed to affordable housing.<br />
Labour is committed to building further Extra Care housing, especially on the east of<br />
the city where there are shortages. Labour will work with housing associations and<br />
Private Rented Sector housing providers to add a further thousand homes to rent<br />
over the same period.<br />
We will renew the HMO licencing scheme for Bargate, Bevois, Swaythling and<br />
Portswood, running alongside a similar scheme in Freemantle, Bassett, Millbrook and<br />
Shirley. We will explore extending licensing to the rest of the city. We will also simplify<br />
the process for making complaints about landlords and increase awareness of this<br />
valued service.<br />
Devolution and greater Local Democracy<br />
Following Brexit it is essential that we see the devolution of powers and responsibilities<br />
to local decision-makers. The case for transport, skills and infrastructure investment<br />
being passed to local authorities is very strong. We will work with other Solent<br />
Councils to establish a mayoral combined authority.<br />
We also believe that we need to bring real community decisions – small capital<br />
schemes, community grants and environmental improvements closer to the people<br />
and will investigate whether urban parishes are a way to achieve this. We will<br />
consider piloting the establishment of urban community councils which allow local<br />
people a bigger say about how their local environment can be enhanced and<br />
improved.<br />
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Building on the success of the Southampton Youth Forum set up by Labour to ensure<br />
young people have an influence on local policy, we will re-establish the role of a<br />
Member of Youth Parliament for Southampton, to give local young people a voice<br />
in national forums too.<br />
Priority Areas for Further Development<br />
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Labour will work with a range of partners to build a conference and<br />
concert venue as part of the redevelopment of the waterfront<br />
Labour will ensure that any Southampton resident applying for a job with<br />
the Council who meets essential criteria might expect an interview<br />
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Children and Young People get a good start in Life<br />
Our Top Priorities:<br />
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Labour will increase the number of local apprenticeship opportunities<br />
directly within the Council and with those organisations where we have<br />
contracts; we will also provide a minimum of fifty well paid council<br />
apprenticeships a year<br />
Labour will help Care Leavers to support their start into independent living<br />
by exempting them from paying Council Tax<br />
Other Key Commitments<br />
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Labour will establish a Southampton Education Partnership which will work<br />
across all our schools to drive up standards and achieve 90% of all schools<br />
rated by Ofsted as either ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’<br />
Labour will continue to reduce the high numbers of children in need –<br />
inherited as a legacy of the last disastrous Tory council administration –<br />
through development of a new ‘Edge of Care’ service<br />
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Labour will work with early years providers and others to promote<br />
opportunities for greater links between the generations e.g. by locating<br />
nurseries in new extra care housing schemes for older people<br />
Improving Education, Skills and Learning<br />
Schools in Southampton are facing the first real-terms cuts to their budgets for over<br />
twenty years. The Conservative government claims there is more money than ever<br />
for education, but head teachers are making tough decisions when government<br />
funding doesn’t cover costs. Labour fully supports the parent-led Fair Funding for<br />
Schools campaign, and we have lobbied MPs and ministers to properly support<br />
schools so we can secure the best outcomes for children in our city.<br />
Labour commits to providing for our growing school population by ensuring every<br />
child is guaranteed a secondary school place.<br />
We will deliver better educational and employment outcomes for our Looked After<br />
Children and care leavers by strengthening our corporate parenting capabilities<br />
and our ‘Virtual School’.<br />
We will work to create an Education Quarter which will champion inclusive lifelong<br />
learning, in order to better equip Southampton’s citizens for life as one of the top five<br />
cities for growth in the UK.<br />
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Whenever a development happens we will use our planning powers to guarantee<br />
job opportunities and apprenticeships for local people. We will also develop with<br />
local Universities and Colleges career pathways which allow our employees to<br />
progress to more skilled better paid jobs.<br />
Protecting our more Vulnerable Children and Young People<br />
Labour will continue to deliver our commitment to keep all Sure Start centres open<br />
at a time when government cuts are closing on average one centre every week<br />
across the UK.<br />
We will continue to reduce the high numbers of children in need through the<br />
development of an Edge of Care service and reduce the numbers of Looked After<br />
Children by ensuring more children are adopted and fostered. We will reduce the<br />
numbers of Looked After Children in high-cost residential care and – as part of this –<br />
we plan to restructure our ‘Short Breaks’ offer for children with disabilities in order to<br />
increase the number of children able to access them.<br />
Together with our NHS partners we will direct more resources to the neglected<br />
Children’s Adolescent & Mental Health Services (CAMHS); we will radically upgrade<br />
and enhance these vital services to make good the 20% cuts incurred since 2010 by<br />
the Tory government.<br />
We recognise the need for local action – together with schools and health services -<br />
on reducing childhood obesity, poor dental health and avoidable admissions to<br />
hospital caused by injuries in the home and on our roads.<br />
Working with the police and others we will take a proactive approach to preventing<br />
radicalisation of our young people targeted by extremist organisations. We will also<br />
work closely with the Youth Offending Board and Hampshire Constabulary to<br />
develop effective crime diversion programmes for young people as an effective<br />
alternative to custody.<br />
Priority Areas for Further Development<br />
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Labour will provide ten paid internships every summer to young people<br />
who either live in Southampton or attend one of our universities<br />
Labour will work with early years providers and others to promote<br />
opportunities for greater links between the generations e.g. by locating<br />
nurseries in new extra care housing schemes for older people<br />
Labour will explore opportunities for introducing locally the tried and<br />
tested ‘Pause Project’ supporting women who are at particular risk of<br />
having their children taken into care<br />
Labour will work with local schools and the wide range of criminal justice<br />
agencies to promote restorative practice models throughout the city<br />
thereby minimising avoidable exclusions and absences<br />
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People in Southampton live safe, healthy, independent Lives<br />
Our Top Priorities:<br />
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Labour will complete its current citywide programme of fitting sprinklers<br />
to all council high-rise blocks<br />
Labour will increase investment in advice services for those most<br />
impacted by the Government’s benefit changes<br />
Labour will sign up to UNISON’s Ethical Care and Residential Care<br />
Charters ending 15-minute care visits and providing care workers with<br />
paid travel time<br />
Labour will explore opportunities for ensuring subsidised bus pass<br />
provision for women denied by Government fair access to their pensions<br />
as highlighted by the campaign group Women Against State Pension<br />
Inequality (WASPI)<br />
Labour will ensure that Southampton remains a welcoming city to our<br />
many diverse communities and adopt a zero tolerance approach to<br />
hate crime by promoting a third party reporting scheme<br />
Other Key Commitments:<br />
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Labour will work with the local NHS to redevelop and expand services at<br />
the Western Hospital and the RSH – including extra care/ key worker<br />
housing<br />
Labour will take further action on preventing the City’s unacceptably<br />
high suicide rate linked to action on mental health stigma and<br />
discrimination; we will also develop an integrated model for supported<br />
housing (Housing First) that addresses problems for people with drug and<br />
alcohol dependency<br />
Labour will implement in full recommendations of the scrutiny inquiry<br />
looking at drug-related litter in parts of the City<br />
Labour will tackle the increasing problems associated with off-road<br />
motor cycle riding in a number of Southampton neighbourhoods<br />
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Better Health and Social Care<br />
Councils will see their grant funding from the Tory-led government reduce by a<br />
staggering £16 billion between 2010 and 2020. Councils face a funding gap of £5.8<br />
billion by 2020, with at least £1 billion of this related to adult social care.<br />
The consequences of chronic underfunding in social care has created an<br />
increasingly insecure provider market, growing unmet need, further strain on informal<br />
carers, less investment in prevention, continued pressure on a care workforce at<br />
breaking point, meaning that social care will struggle to reduce pressure on the NHS.<br />
The City Council under Labour has done its utmost to protect vulnerable adults, and<br />
despite crippling cutbacks, the City Council in 2016/17 was able to provide longterm<br />
care to 2,780 adult social care clients (costing around £61 million) including:<br />
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1,470 people with physical disability/mobility support needs/ sensory<br />
impairment (£25.5 million)<br />
580 people with learning disabilities (£21.5 million)<br />
315 people with memory or cognition support needs/dementia (£10 million)<br />
350 people with mental health issues (£4.25 million)<br />
Looking ahead, Labour plans to consult widely with disabled people and their<br />
organisations, carers and service users about the Government’s much-delayed<br />
proposals for long term funding for adult social care which is now expected in a<br />
‘Green Paper’ in Summer 2018.<br />
We will use our public health budget to reduce the number of people admitted to<br />
hospital from preventable conditions and continue to reduce the number of<br />
delayed transfers of care, working with valued partners in NHS. At a community and<br />
neighbourhood level, Labour work with our local NHS to establish integrated primary<br />
care hubs in Shirley and Bitterne.<br />
Safer Communities<br />
Since the Tories came to power, our police service has seen big cuts in frontline staff.<br />
Hampshire’s police are dangerously understaffed, overworked and overstretched<br />
and communities are becoming less safe as a result. Between 2012 and 2016,<br />
Hampshire Constabulary lost almost 1,000 police staff including 551 frontline officers.<br />
Hampshire Police have been forced to cut £82 million (24%) from their annual<br />
budget since 2010 with a further £25 million demanded by the government over the<br />
next four years. As a direct result, crime has started to rise.<br />
In 2016/17 Southampton police recorded 30,728 crimes – a significant increase on<br />
the previous year. Southampton, along with Portsmouth, have the highest recorded<br />
crime rate amongst its 15 comparator areas with 120 crimes per 1,000 population,<br />
compared to 73 for England.<br />
Labour in Southampton will make best use of its position on the Hampshire & Isle of<br />
Wight police and crime panel to help secure a fairer share of the financial resources<br />
from Government for the county’s police force whilst also pressing home the case<br />
for more action in Southampton on neighbourhood crime, road safety, antisocial<br />
behaviour and youth programmes.<br />
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We will work with police and NHS partners to address the challenges identified in the<br />
Alcohol Strategy and Drug Strategy via the Health and Wellbeing Board and Safe<br />
City Partnership.<br />
We will maximise opportunities for closer working with Hampshire Fire & Rescue<br />
Service to prevent avoidable admissions to hospital from accidents, burns and falls.<br />
We will also work with Southampton Football Club to address health issues for people<br />
of working age and later years like, for example, in helping to prevent admissions to<br />
hospital from falls.<br />
Greater Diversity, Equality and Fairness<br />
Labour is committed to a fairer and more equal society for everyone. There is a<br />
strong and undisputed economic and social case that reducing the widening gap<br />
between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ ultimately benefits and makes life better for us<br />
all.<br />
While Southampton is one of the fastest growing economies in the UK, some of our<br />
communities are among the poorest in the country. Sadly, a Labour Council cannot<br />
deflect all the cruel inequalities being imposed on our poorest residents by this Tory<br />
Government, but it will remain committed to ensuring they are shielded as far as<br />
possible from harsh Tory austerity measures.<br />
Labour values the role of the voluntary sector and will continue to work with and<br />
support local charities and organisations to help tackle our most urgent social needs.<br />
Labour wants everyone to have the same opportunities, respect and ambitions in life<br />
irrespective of social background, race or religion. As a port city, Southampton has a<br />
long tradition stretching back centuries of people coming to work, study, travel and<br />
trade from all backgrounds and from all over the globe. It has made Southampton<br />
what it is today: a vibrant, multi-skilled, resourceful, creative and ambitious city. We<br />
will continue to celebrate being a City of Sanctuary.<br />
Labour will work with partners to ensure we remain the welcoming and diverse<br />
community we have been for centuries and commit to advocating social cohesion<br />
through key initiatives and events, as well as being a city of zero tolerance to hate<br />
crime.<br />
Priority Areas for Further Development<br />
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Labour will pilot the use of mobile phone camera technology to better<br />
enable citizens to report environmental issues such as graffiti, overflowing<br />
rubbish bins, potholes, misuse of bike stands, illegal pavement parking<br />
etc.<br />
Labour will support requests from local Saints supporters for introducing on<br />
a pilot basis ‘safe standing’ zones at St Mary’s Stadium<br />
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Southampton is a modern, attractive City where People are proud<br />
to live and work (1) Environment, Transport & Sustainable Living<br />
Our Top Priorities<br />
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Labour will invest in an improved pothole repair service where we will see<br />
potholes fixed in days rather than weeks and months<br />
Labour will continue to increase spending on roads and pavement<br />
resurfacing; we pledge to complete a hundred schemes next year<br />
focusing on small residential roads and cycle routes<br />
Labour will work to clean up Southampton by investing £400,000 in extra<br />
street cleaning; amounting to over 20,000 extra hours of work to spruce<br />
up our city<br />
Labour will ensure that the HMO licence scheme in the central wards is<br />
renewed. We will also seek to use compulsory purchase powers on longterm<br />
empty homes to bring them back into use<br />
Labour will launch its own council owned energy company (CitizEN) and<br />
will reinvest profit into alleviating fuel poverty for Southampton’s residents<br />
Labour will continue to press neighbouring local councils to expand the<br />
County’s waste recycling facilities to allow a wider range of materials to<br />
be recycled (e.g. plastics)<br />
Labour will continue to tackle air pollution with a package of measures<br />
including introduction of a Clean Air Zone by 2019 with charges for the<br />
most polluting HGV’s taxi’s and buses<br />
Labour will invest an extra 20% of the roads budget for the repair of<br />
damage to concrete roads<br />
Other Key Commitments:<br />
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Labour will continue to roll out the green wall across the boundary of the<br />
docks and explore further locations along busy roads<br />
Labour will continue to work with partner organisations to deliver Shore<br />
Power in Southampton.<br />
Labour will offer a package of measures to support Electric Vehicle<br />
ownership in the city, such as free crossing of the Itchen Bridge,<br />
subsidised parking and recharge points<br />
Labour will work to ensure 100% renewable energy is supplied to all<br />
council buildings<br />
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Environment & Transport<br />
Labour is fully committed to building a modern transport system and will work with<br />
the business community through the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership to secure our<br />
fair share of government investment to fund it. During 2018/19 we will review and<br />
consult extensively on a new Local Transport Plan for the City and surrounding areas.<br />
We will continue to increase spending on our roads and maintain our commitment<br />
to freeze or reduce parking charges.<br />
We will continue to implement our bold five year programme to deliver Labour’s<br />
Cycle Strategy.<br />
Labour will introduce a new enforcement team – one that is more joined up – to<br />
tackle environmental concerns and enforce existing laws to keep the city clean. We<br />
will work with a range of partners to spruce up Southampton and invest in the<br />
necessary equipment to get the job done.<br />
Sustainable Living<br />
Labour will bring in the Clean Air Zone by 2019 with charges for coaches, buses,<br />
HGVs and taxis that don’t meet emission standards. We will no longer licence any<br />
diesel taxis by 2023. We will ensure the availability of at least 100 Electric Vehicle<br />
charge points across the city by 2020.<br />
We will continue to work with partners including Associated British Ports to deliver<br />
Shore Power to Southampton and help reduce air pollution from local ships in port.<br />
We will start work on rolling out a ‘green wall’ across the boundary of the docks and<br />
explore further locations along busy roads.<br />
We are fully committed to 100% renewable energy supplied to all Council buildings.<br />
The council's new energy company will reinvest its profits into alleviating fuel poverty<br />
and, over time, introduce a low cost renewable tariff.<br />
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Southampton is a modern, attractive City where People are proud<br />
to live and work (2) Leisure, Culture & Communities<br />
Our Top Priorities<br />
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Labour will continue a programme of investing in Council play parks<br />
starting with Mansel Park and then Riverside Park<br />
Labour will invest in Christmas lighting for our main district shopping centres<br />
in Shirley, Portswood, and Woolston.<br />
Other Key Commitments:<br />
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Labour will redevelop Southampton’s Outdoor Sport Centre<br />
Labour will support local community organisations by doubling the<br />
amount we invest in the local community small grants and working with<br />
‘friends of’ groups<br />
Labour will ensure that there are more events throughout the city for<br />
everyone to enjoy<br />
Labour will invest in the City’s heritage and cultural life, including delivery<br />
of a series of activities and events to commemorate Mayflower 400 in<br />
2020<br />
Labour will have more physical activities and improved sports facilities in<br />
our parks and open spaces<br />
Leisure and Culture<br />
Labour believes that art, leisure and culture enrich lives, which in turn transforms<br />
communities and brings cities to life. Places like Southampton are vibrant, diverse,<br />
modern, ambitious, and so much more because of the flourishing culture and artists<br />
they produce.<br />
Culture is becoming the beating heart of our city; we have art organisations helping<br />
to run our local libraries and working with our young offenders to help reduce reoffending.<br />
From the arrival of Studio 144 in Southampton’s emerging Cultural<br />
Quarter, to hosting mass sporting events and making physical activity more<br />
accessible, Labour is committed to ensuring culture is for everyone.<br />
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Labour has made Southampton a place where something is always happening. We<br />
want to create a city that we can all enjoy and be proud of, but also a place where<br />
people from around the world want to visit.<br />
With the cultural sector being the second biggest economic driver in the UK, it is only<br />
right and fitting that Labour promotes culture within our city to reap the economic<br />
benefits it brings, with job creation and business retention. Labour have also used<br />
culture and leisure to help address social needs and instil pride in our city, giving<br />
Southampton the cultural identity it needs and deserves.<br />
Labour will continue work with local people and partners to ensure we establish<br />
Southampton firmly on the map and become the leading cultural destination in the<br />
region. Labour commits to maximising key events that will be strong opportunities to<br />
showcase our City, including Mayflower 400 in 2020, Southampton 800th Mayor in<br />
2022, and even a potential bid in 2021 to become UK City of Culture in 2025.<br />
Priority Areas for Further Development<br />
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Labour will support the City’s local artists through participation in the ‘Public Art<br />
Local’ programme<br />
Labour will work with residents to protect local community buildings by listing<br />
them as community assets<br />
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