Community Plan

 

The Community Strategy (referred to in Pembrokeshire as the Community Plan) is the overarching long-term strategy for the local authority area and all its population, based on a thorough analysis of needs and priorities, and opportunities for addressing them.  

 

Community planning is the process of developing the Community Plan (Strategy) and its success depends on strong engagement with citizens, communities and all the partners who contribute to the delivery of the Strategy.  A Community Plan cannot realistically cover every issue that may be relevant to a local community.  It should focus on issues where partners, either collectively or individually, can add value over the longer term.

 

The Community Plan should set out a 10-15 year vision, informed by priorities set out in plans produced by key strategic planning partnerships, such as Children and Young People; Health Social Care and Wellbeing,

The Community Plan must fulfil a number of purposes, namely to:

 

• enhance the quality of life of local communities through action to improve their economic, social and environmental well-being;
• contribute to the achievement of sustainable development;
• provide a mechanism to debate locally the needs, opportunities and aspirations of local communities and establish priorities

 

WAG guidance suggests that revised community strategies should be in place by April 2010, and then reviewed on a three or four yearly cycle thereafter.  In Pembrokeshire, work on the revised community plan will be started once the Local Service Board has been established.

The work of developing a Community Plan for Pembrokeshire is led by Dan Shaw, Corporate Planning Manager at Pembrokeshire County Council, and is delivered through the Community Planning and Leadership Partnership, which consists of the Pembrokeshire County Council and 13 representatives of other statutory bodies.

Click here for more information about the membership and work of the Corporate Planning and Leadership Partnership

For more information on the Community Planning process in Pembrokeshire, visit the County Council website at www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/communityplanning