Area Improvement Group
THIS GROUP HAS NOW BEEN MERGED AND IS NOW PART OF THE PEOPLE & PLACES GROUP.
The work of this group is particularly relevant to the “Place Shaping” aspects of the Sustainable Community Strategy. It will continue the work in Priority Neighbourhoods which started under the previous Community Strategy and which seeks to work with local people to improve quality of life in defined specific areas with a significant concentration of inequalities at Borough level. Neighbourhood improvement techniques may also be applied in other neighbourhoods which are identified as having complex problems that need co-ordinated multi-agency interventions. This group’s objectives are:
- To continue to co-ordinate partner activity to deliver tangible improvements in neighbourhoods identified through analysis as requiring priority attention due to significant and complex issues affecting residents’ quality of life and well-being.
- To ensure partner resources are directed to tackle both immediate and longer term underlying issues through the creation of Neighbourhood Action Plans to be delivered by Neighbourhood Action Teams in consultation with Neighbourhood Forums and/or Area Forums.
- To co-ordinate the development and delivery of neighbourhood improvement across all targeted areas of the Borough including performance management of activities.
- To promote neighbourhood improvement activity and achievements to partners, the public and residents of the neighbourhoods.
- To ensure that residents of neighbourhoods are engaged effectively in the creation of action plans and during their delivery.
- To ensure close links to multi-agency initiatives to tackle environmental crimes such as fly tipping, fly posters, graffiti, dog fouling etc.
- To contribute to the development of schemes that seek to regenerate land and facilities within or including priority neighbourhoods, for instance in Eastern Loughborough.
- To co-ordinate with the activities of other sub-groups, in particular the Community Safety Partnership and the Stronger Communities Sub-Group.
Strategic Objectives within remit
- SO1 - to reduce social exclusion and deprivation and increase educational attainment particularly in those parts of the within remit Borough identified as areas of relatively higher need, for example the priority neighbourhoods of Loughborough East, Loughborough West, Mountsorrel and South Charnwood.
- SO3 - to secure the provision of accessible facilities and services to meet the needs of all local people, having regard to the particular needs of the young, old and “hard to reach”.
Priority Places for this Group's work
- Priority Neighbourhoods – East Loughborough, West Loughborough, Mountsorrel, South Charnwood (parts of Syston and Thurmaston – Borough wide).