What we will focus on to achieve this ambition

• Encouraging major development projects to deliver benefits linked to the community strategy’s ambitions, including adopting a ‘good neighbour’ approach during building work and maintaining high standards of design.

• Encouraging investment that maintains environmental and heritage facilities.

• Improving access to the services and facilities available to local  communities.

• Continuing to support plans to improve towns and villages and other local community planning and partnership initiatives.

• Sharing good practice with partners, communities and agencies.

• Examining the potential effect developments in tourist and retail centres will have on the local economy.

• Helping to shape regional policies through the Regional Development Agency (RDA), the Government Office for the South West (GOSW) and the Regional Assembly.

• Insisting on the highest possible standards of design, for example in areas the public have access to.

• Promoting strong communities where people from all backgrounds mix well at work, at school and in their neighbourhoods.

•  Working with older people so their priorities are reflected in our ambitions.

•  Promoting Bath and North East Somerset’s culture, including the arts, archaeology, design,  parks and recreation.

•  Promoting the benefits of sport.

•  Recognising play as a crucial part of children’s lives.

• Making our communities better places to live by doing the small things well.

• Supporting the particular needs of carers across a wide range of services.

• Working with the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (a partnership that brings together a wide range of agencies to focus on the needs of children and young people) to make sure the five national outcomes identified in ‘Every Child Matters: next steps’ are reflected locally. 

An extract from 'Every Child Matters: Next Steps' is given below

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