Sustainable Community Strategy

Improving the quality of life for everyone - A 2026 Vision for Stratford District

I am delighted to introduce the Sustainable Community Strategy for the Stratford District.

The strategy is yours. The Stratford District Partnership of the county and district councils, police, health agencies, private sector and the voluntary and community sector developed it. You have endorsed it.

Your strategy sets out the community’s vision for the District for 2026, and what we intend to do to improve our economic, social and environmental wellbeing – and our quality of life overall.

The vision is aspirational – but achievable. And we aim to achieve it through working together.

That will be key. The members of the Partnership have signed up to a shared vision and have committed to work together in a coordinated way to address the challenges facing us.

We need to tackle the challenges and opportunities to make the quality of life better for everyone living here, regardless of their race, religion or belief, age, disability, gender or sexual orientation.

This long term Stratgy is supported by a two year delivery plan. The Partnership has endorsed the following set of strategic issues to be pursued in the shorter term:-

create balanced communities;
promote active communities;
improve access to services;
address fuel poverty;
encourage economic growth; and
address climate change/carbon reduction.

To ensure that we achieve this a single action plan for 2010 - 2012 was agreed at the 9 June 2010 meeting and is available from the downloads section of this page.

I am confident that with all the partners and the community united around our ambition, and prepared to work together, we will be successful.

Charles Goody

Chair, Stratford District Partnership

Downloads:
Sustainable Community Strategy (142KB PDF) | SCS Single Action Plan 2010-12 (62KB PDF) | Help with PDFs