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COMMUNITY PLAN QUESTIONNAIRE

Parish Parish (or Community-Led) Plans create a shared vision for how the community wants to develop, and identify the action needed to achieve it. They provide a way for you to have your say on all aspects of life in your community, whether environmental, social, economic or cultural. These needs and aspirations are then translated into an action plan showing who, how and by when these priorities will be tackled.


Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete the questionnaire, we will publish the results once they are collated.

Localism – Moving Forwards 
(by Cambridgeshire County Council)

The Localism Bill is expected to be enacted in autumn 2011.  The Community Engagement team has established a cross-directorate Localism and Community Engagement board to coordinate the council’s response.

Localism affects us all, so colleagues from across the council are working together on this, as well as teaming up with partners.

Here is a taster of some of the work which comes under the Localism banner, quite a broad range…

Shape Your Place – A website which has now rolled out to all the market towns in Fenland designed to work with communities to improve their neighbourhoods.  On the site people can:

  • find out what’s going on in their neighbourhood
  • Report a community issue or suggest ideas
  • Receive a response from service providers and neighbours.  Local councils, the police and fire service commit to responding within 10 days.

Cambridgeshire Future Transport – Cambridgeshire Future Transport is a partnership initiative to achieve better value for money, and greater community outcomes, from public spend on supported passenger transport. Here we are taking a new approach to delivering the transport that is needed to achieve better value for money. Communities need more freedom to determine how transport services are delivered and what local needs are.  This project aims to explore and help deliver this.

‘Our Somersham, Our Call’ – There are two complementary pilot projects running in parallel in Somersham.  Firstly, ACRE are leading a project to trial a new approach to Community Led Planning.  The aim is to engage more of the community in the parish planning process by using visual methods, for example, members of the community will be venturing out to take photos of the things they like best in their community and images capturing what they would like to change.  This will inform the local priorities.

Secondly a Time bank is being established with funding from Skills for Care.  It is a way for people to come together to help others and help themselves at the same time. Participants 'deposit' their time in the bank by giving practical help and support to others and are able to 'withdraw' their time when they need something done themselves.  Time banks help  to build cohesive communities. 

If you would like to find out more about Localism, please join the Community of Practice site.  Link below:

http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/welcome.do

You need to quickly register the first time you visit, then search for ‘Cambridgeshire Localism’.  Please do come and join the discussion.

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