OUR KIND OF PLACE

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OUR KIND OF PLACE

• High Level Partnership Action Programme

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Our Kind of Place

• The Community Strategy for the Arun district,
  launched in April 2000
• Partners from the private, public and voluntary
  sectors have formed a Local Strategic Partnership

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What are the issues?

• A sharp divide between deprivation and wealth
• High levels of deprivation exist next to areas of
  comparative affluence
• A concerted need to tackle deprivation and social
  exclusion

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What are the issues?

• Broad patterns of an increase in elderly
  population, especially the frail elderly
• Pressure on social care and health agencies to
  support older people, particularly in their own
  homes

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What are the issues?

• Highest rate of children in need and highest rate
  of child protection cases in the county
• About a quarter of Aruns children and young
  people live in families receiving some kind of
  benefit

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What are the issues?

• Low levels of educational attainment in many
  schools compared with county average
• Highest rate in the county of young people
  admitted to hospital for substance misuse

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What are the issues?

• Lowest working age population in West Sussex
• Lowest average earnings in West Sussex
• Economic activity dominated by small businesses

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What are the issues?

• Considerable hidden housing need
• Growing need for extra care housing, affordable
  housing, key worker housing
• Are new housing developments meeting the needs of
  Aruns residents?

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What are the issues?

• Car ownership is high and traffic expected to
  increase by as much as 37 over next 10 15
  years
• Volumes of household refuse growing at almost
  twice the national average

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The challenge
We have to run hard just to stand still.
Concerted and creative action will be needed to
achieve a sustainable future
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High Level Action

• A 10 year programme between 2004 2014
• Short, Medium and Long Term action
• Focus on four key themes

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High Level Action

• Aruns Children and Young People
• An Ageing Population
• Liveability
• Housing

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Aruns Children and Young People

• Closer targeting of vulnerable families / young
  people where direct intervention could make a
  difference

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Aruns Children and Young People

• A reduction in the number of young people in Arun
  living in child poverty

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Aruns Children and Young People

• Closing the gap between educational attainment in
  Arun schools and the county average at Key Stages
  2, 3 and 4 working with specific schools where
  problems are the greatest

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Aruns Children and Young People

• A reduction in the number of children in Arun who
  are on the Child Protection Register to the
  county average

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An Ageing Population

• To develop services that promote health and
  independence and tackle issues around social
  isolation through improved access, transport and
  supporting people in their own homes

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An Ageing Population

• A reduction in the mortality rate of under 75s in
  Arun compared with the county average, with
  particular reference to deaths from cancer,
  coronary heart disease and circulatory disease

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An Ageing Population

• Provision of extra care housing to meet the needs
  of Aruns increasingly elderly population as
  evidenced in Housing Needs Survey 2003

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An Ageing Population

• A simpler, better-coordinated and easily
  accessible framework for information for elderly
  people

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Across the generations

• Inter-generational projects bringing older and
  younger people together for the benefit of both

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Across the generations

• A Learning for Life programme that encourages
  imaginative ways of bringing older and younger
  people together to learn from each other

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Across the generations

• Talking up the value of listening to the
  younger generation

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Liveability

• An improvement in local peoples satisfaction
  with their local environment, building
  communities, not just houses

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Liveability

• A focus on area action through Partnership
  Panels / Joint Area Committees - and the
  development of a neighbourhood management
  approach by main public agencies

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Liveability

• Sustainable and cohesive communities built in
  accessible locations, close to transport / road
  links or in areas where new housing will support
  existing communities to maintain local facilities

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Liveability

• An increase in the number of agreed Parish Plans
  and Town Visions in place between 2004 to 2014

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Housing

• A joint agency approach to providing appropriate
  housing to meet local needs, including the needs
  for key worker housing / affordable housing

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Housing

• 40 of new units from the total of all sites in
  the district to be identified for subsidised
  affordable housing

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Housing

• Development of employer led schemes, working with
  the major employers of key workers within the
  district to meet key worker housing need e.g.
  mortgage assistance, relocation schemes, links
  with Building Societies etc

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Housing

• New housing developments which meet local housing
  needs as evidenced by post-occupation surveys

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Measuring progress

• An improvement in the level of community cohesion
  within Arun, measured via a baseline survey
  carried out in September 2004 and repeated at
  three-yearly intervals

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Measuring progress

• Improvement in a set of Quality Of Life
  Indicators adopted by the Local Strategic
  Partnership

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Measuring progress

• Continuous improvement against a set of 5
  indicators of customer satisfaction (i.e. getting
  the basics right)
• Household waste collection service
• Local waste recycling facilities
• Street cleanliness
• Fear of crime
• Level of traffic congestion

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Measuring progress

• An increase in the number of people saying Arun
  is their kind of place from 75 in 2002 to 80
  in 2007 and 85 in 2012.