Page Aim
Sustainable Community Strategies are intended to engage communities in defining a vision for their areas and deciding the ways in which this vision will be realised. Shorter term Action Plans are then published setting out an appropriate programme for the next three years or so.
The assessments focus on one subregion's Strategies’ positive proposals, ignoring their failure to consider the sea-change implications of climate change and other aspects of the environmental, economic and social collapse that are becoming increasingly evident to us all..
It would be unfair and ill-considered to be unduly critical of individual area SCSs and those involved in their production. Notwithstanding the impressive engagement processes some LSPs establish to produce their Strategies, at the end of the day the final documents are funding bids, a means by which the Government rolls out its national policies.
So, is participation an elaborate illusion? Are local Sustainable Community Strategies simply a vehicle for rhetoric? Do they provide no more than a local public services Charter?
Or do they give communities a genuine opportunity to become involved in decision making? And do they provide baseline statistics and outcome targets that enable citizens to subject their programmes to measurement and decision makers to scrutiny?
Outline Contents
General SCS information is included under these first four headings:
Background
Information.
Government
Requirements.
SCS
Accessibility.
How
to Conduct Your Own S&P Audit.
Document Store
Coventry
& Warwickshire’s Current Strategies
The following Strategy audits are available as pdf documents:
Coventry – the Next Twenty Years. The Coventry Sustainable Community Strategy 2008 – 2026.
Assessments of the five Warwickshire districts’ current Strategies are being prepared for inclusion as pdf documents.
Coventry
& Warwickshire’s Earlier Strategies – Did
they Deliver?
These assessments of earlier Strategies are being prepared for inclusion in the document store:
Coventry: 2008 – 2026.
North Warwickshire: 2004 – 2007.
Nuneaton and Bedworth: 2007 – 2021.
Rugby: 2007 - 2010.
Stratford: 2004 – 2014.
Warwick: 2005 – 2020.
Warwickshire: 2005 – 2008.
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