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    Local Strategy Themes

    1. Unsustainability  How LSPs and SCSs can address global unsustainability at the local level.

    2. Participation  How LSPs and SCSs can involve communities in decision making – particularly about sustainability issues.

    3. SCS Themes  Identifying and grouping Strategy themes, and LSP theme groups.

    4. Community  Including social inclusion, young and old, ethnic and cultural diversity, narrowing the gap, VCO involvement.

    5. Community Safety  Crime and disorder.

    6. Education  Including lifelong learning, student led initiatives, ESD.

    7. Health  Including wellbeing, complementary medicine.

    8. Economics  Including local economy, social economy, employment, town centres, ethical consumerism, SCP.

    9. Environment  Including natural environment; access to green space, habitat and species biodiversity, pollution, maintaining and increasing natural features, urban trees.  Also built environment; housing, planning and development, infrastructure, sprawl.

    10. Transport  Including traffic, road calming, buses, trains, passenger information, integrated transport initiatives, cycling, pedestrian issues, freight, air travel, parking, car sharing, socialised costs.

    11. Waste  Including waste, recycling: disposal facilities and provisions, packaging.

    12. Climate Change and Energy  Including energy conservation, renewable sources, global impacts on local environment, economy and communities, transition and energy descent, renewables.

     

    Please send LINKS any existing Local Strategic Partnership or Council resolutions you would like to bring to the attention of all those working on S&P and LSP processes elsewhere.

     

    Unsustainability

    LSP Sustainability Mission Statement

    “To develop and establish with the community both a sustainable vision for (the area) and the means to achieve it.”

                                                                                                                                 North East Lincolnshire LSP

    LSP Sustainability Policy

    The Partnership Team recognises its responsibility to the sustainable future of Nuneaton and Bedworth and its inhabitants.  Member organisations of the Partnership will ensure that al joint activities and partnership working will endeavour to ensure a good quality of life for all.  They will protect the environment and environmental resources; key considerations will be the need to:

    1. Use energy, water and other natural resources efficiently and with care, and strive to achieve an equitable distribution of these resources

    2. Minimise waste, then re-use or recover it through recycling, composting or energy recovery, and finally dispose of what is left

    3. Promote and sustain a vibrant local economy that gives access to satisfying and rewarding work without damaging the local, national or global environment

    The Partnership team is committed to actions being undertaken within the group to address the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change.

    Under the Community Plan the eight theme groups will formally adopt the above policy, monitor and review the progress of the theme groups in relation to the policy on a quarterly basis and report back to the Partnership team and the Community Forum.

                                                                                                                                 Nuneaton and Bedworth LSP

    Sustainable Development

    This statement has been published by Coventry VSC.  Versions of it could be devised by other infrastructure organisations and promoted through their affiliates.  It could also be considered for adoption by areas’ LSPs.

    Sustainable Development: meeting the needs of the people today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

    CVSC is committed to:

    Minimising waste and resource use:

    1. We will strive to conserve resources through the efficient use of electricity, water and all other in-puts to our premises.  Energy efficient practice will be communicated to all staff and volunteers.

    2. Waste, wherever practicable, shall be re-used, recycled or disposed of according to the most appropriate environmental option.

    3. We shall aim to keep our premises and surroundings clean, tidy and well maintained.  All staff will be expected to participate in CVSC bi-annual clear-up days, which will include maintaining electronic documents.

    4. We shall consider environmental issues when purchasing or replacing equipment and fittings or making changes to our premises, choosing these products where the cost is within 10% of commercially available resources.

    5. Where practicable, energy efficient, waste reducing, robust, environmentally friendly, recycled and recyclable gods will be purchased.  For example, environmentally friendly washing up liquid, dishwasher tablets.

    6. Fairtraded products and sustainable products (tea and coffee) will be used for all office-based hospitality, ordered in bulk online by the executive support officer and stored in the training suite once delivered.

    Monitoring progress:

    1. An existing or newly formed time-limited sub-group will conduct an environmental audit of CVSC once a year.

    2. We will monitor the frequency of recycle bin collection and the amount of paper based resources ordered / used.

    3. Any suggestions from staff or volunteers around managing waste and energy and sustainable development can be taken to senior management team in the first instance.

     

    Participation

    COMMUNITY

    Local Sustainable Communities Bill

    (This is included as an indication of the sort of resolutions LSPs can pass in order to aid their local communities: the Bill became law on 23 October 2007, so this actual resolution would have to be modified for present usage.)

    This Local Strategic Partnership:

    a)  Expresses its concern at;

    1. The decline of local services and facilities which affects local communities and in particular the elderly and people on the lowest incomes;

    2. the resulting decline of local jobs and local economies and the resulting extra traffic and pollution caused by the need to travel further.

    b)  And notes that this combination of factors increases people’s feelings of exclusion and lack of involvement, and so;

    c)  Supports measures to reverse this process and

    d)  Supports the concept of local sustainability as envisaged in the Sustainable Communities Bill, namely;

    1. The promotion of local economies

    2. The promotion of local services and facilities

    3. The protection of the environment

    4. The reduction of social exclusion and

    5. Measures to increase involvement in the democratic processes

    e) And accordingly resolves to support the Sustainable Communities Bill which;

    1. Requires the Government to assist councils and communities in promoting local sustainability in ways decided by them; and

    2. Sets up a participative process whereby councils and communities can drive the way in which government uses its power and influence to assist with the promotion of local sustainability; and

    3. Notes that this Bill is therefore fully in accord with current thinking in local government in that it impacts on central authorities and does not impose any new  duties on councils but instead enables them to influence how government uses its resources and influence to help councils and communities; and

    4. Specifically provides that where councils themselves decide to take action to promote local sustainability that they should be given the resources to do so; and so

    f)  Further resolves;

    1. To inform the local media of this decision

    2. To write to local MPs asking them to support the Bill; and sign EDM 641, and

    3. To write to Local Works, the Campaign behind the Bill expressing its support

    Based on the draft local authority resolution circulated by Local Works

    94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF

     

    Community Safety

     

    Education

     

    Health

     

    Economics

    Fairtrade Area Status

    This Local Strategic Partnership actively supports and promotes the concept of Fairtrade – ensuring that producers from developing countries get affair price for their goods and labour.

    The Partnership resolves to:

    1. Promote awareness of Fairtrade issues amongst local people, business and other organisations concerning the worldwide impact of unfair trade and the opportunities that Fairtrade provides to promote sustainability.

    2. Establish, or work with an already existing, local Fairtrade steering group to help achieve Fairtrade Area status for (this area) and to appoint a representative willing to liaise with this group on a regular basis.

    3. Use fairtrade products, that is those carrying the Fairtrade mark, when catering for Partnership meetings and events.

    Based on standard Fairtrade Area Status Council resolution

      

    Environment

     

    Transport

     

    Waste

     

    Climate Change and Energy

    See Nottingham Declaration for more information.  If your local authority is one of the 289 in England that had signed this up to the beginning of 2008 your Partnership should already be on board. However there are still 100 councils who have not yet signed up.  Perhaps your LSP could prompt some action?

     

    Nottingham Declaration

    This Partnership recognises that Climate Change is likely to be one of the key drivers of change within our community this century.

    We acknowledge that:

    1. Evidence continues to mount that climate change is occurring.

    2. Climate change will have far reaching effects on the UK’s economy, society and environment.

    We welcome the:

    1. Social, economic and environmental benefits which will come from combating climate change.

    2. Recognition by many sectors, especially government and business, of the need for change.

    3. Emissions targets agreed by central government and the programme for delivering change as set out in the ‘Climate Change – UK Programme’.

    4. Opportunity for LSPs to lead the response as a local level and thereby play a major role in helping to deliver the national programme.

    5. Opportunity for us to encourage and help local residents and local businesses - to reduce their energy costs, to reduce congestion, to improve the local environment and to deal with fuel poverty in our communities.

    6. Additional powers to address the social, economic and environmental well-being of our communities contained within the Local Government Act 2000, which will assist in this process

    We commit our Partnership to:

    1. Work with local and central government to contribute, at a local level, to the delivery of the UK climate change programme.

    2. Incorporate in Community Strategy processes the means for our area to address the causes and effects of climate change and to secure maximum benefit for our communities

    3. Publicly declare, within the plan, the commitment to achieve a significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from our own authority’s operations especially energy sourcing and use, travel and transport, waste production and disposal and the purchasing of goods and services.

    4. Encourage all sectors in the local community to take the opportunity to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions and to make public their commitment to action.

    5. Work with key providers, including health authorities, businesses and development organisations to assess the potential effects of climate change on our communities, and to identify ways in which we can adapt.

    6. Provide opportunities for the development of renewable energy generation within our area.

    7. Monitor the progress of our plan against the actions needed and publish the results.

     

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    Partnership Chair

      

     Website links

    Visitors can follow through the same twelve S&P themes on the pages listed below.  

    S&P Information Resources for LSPs – lists some UN documents, Government papers, books and publications from a variety of other sources in order to help inform SCS and LSP theme group discussion and decision making.

    Model Resolutions for LSPs etc  – gives LSPs and third sector organisations a chance to network on S&P concerns.

    Model Sustainable Community Strategy – sets out the S&P overview that it’s necessary to bring to different local SCS themes and those involved in their LSP’s associated theme groups.