Colchester2020 Local Strategic Partnership

Our vision for Colchester, in 2020 and beyond, is to be:

  • Excelling as a regional centre
  • Working for sustainable economic growth and reducing carbon emissions
  • Providing opportunities for everyone to lead healthy lives and to achieve their full potential
  • A great place to live, work, study and visit.

Priorities:

  1. Promoting business, increasing employment opportunities and improving educational and skills attainment
  2. Reducing congestion, changing travel behaviour and improving the transport infrastructure
  3. Making Colchester an outstanding visitor destination and celebrating its heritage, culture and leisure activities
  4. Promoting healthy lifestyles, providing affordable housing and reducing homelessness
  5. Creating safer neighbourhoods and stronger, inclusive communities

This vision and priorities for the Borough are identified within our Sustainable Comunities Strategy.

Key Links

Colchester LSP Website

Essex Strategy and LAA objectives

The Essex Strategy

The Essex Strategy is the 10 year strategic vision for the county and is implemented alongside 12 Sustainable Communities Strategies (SCS) which are unique to each District.  However, issues exist which are common to all, identified as the 'Wicked Issues' facing the County through the 2009 Essex Strategy Review process, these are: -

  1. Reducing Health Inequalities
  2. Safeguarding the Most Vulnerable
  3. Improving Educational Attainment and Skills
  4. Improving Community Safety
  5. Strengthening Communities
  6. Promoting Sustainable Economic Growth
  7. Mitigating Climate Change

The Local Area Agreement

The Essex Local Area Agreement (LAA) is an agreement with the Government and the County’s Local Strategic Partnerships, the voluntary sector and other public services including Health and the Police. The agreement sets outcomes and targets to be achieved over a three-year period.  Essentially it is the delivery arm of the Essex Strategy with the overarching vision: -

“To support Essex people to liberate their potential to enjoy the best quality of life in Britain”

To achieve this relies on delivery at a local level.  Colchester LSP has identified the following LAA Performance Indicators which it will 'have regard to'.

Budgets controlled by the partnership

ECC currently makes available Local Area Agreement2 Performance Reward Grant (1st April 2009 31st March 2011).

Resources and systems controlled by the partnership

The LSP has a dedicated website: Colchester LSP Website

Members

People

  • Irene Swift (Colchester2020 and PSP Co-ordinator) Contact through email. Tel.01206 282348
  • Richard Aldridge (Chief Executive Citizens Advice Bureau)
  • Steve Bradshaw (Vice-Chair of Colchester2020 LSP)
  • Danny Clough (Principal and Chief Executive of Colchester Institute)
  • Ewan Dodds (Lead Partner: Promoting business, increasing employment & improving educational attainment)
  • Jo Edwards (Chairperson of the Federation of Residents Association)
  • Dee Evans (Lead Partner: Making Colchester an outstanding visitor destination and celebrating its heritage)
  • Greg Falvey (Chief Executive Colchester Borough Homes and Chair Public Service Partnership)
  • Tom Fleetwood (Garrison Commander)
  • Jane Gardner (Essex County Council Area Co-ordinator for East Essex)
  • Cllr. Jeremy Lucas (Lead Partner: Reducing congestion, changing travel behaviour & improving transport infrastructure)
  • Peter Murphy (Chief Executive of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust)
  • Adrian Pritchard (Lead Partner: Promoting healthy lifestyles, providing affordable housing and reducing homelessness)
  • Tony Rich (Registrar, University of Essex)
  • Cllr Tim Young (Colchester Borough Councillor)
  • Tim Newcomb (Chair Colchester2020 LSP)
  • Paul Watson (Chief Executive NHS North East Essex)
  • Poobie Naidoo (Director Tendring Education Trust)

Paul Watson

 

Organisations

Working groups

  • Public Service Partnership (PSP)

    The Public Service Partnership (PSP) is accountable to Colchester2020 and its membersare drawn from the major public sector bodies that are responsible for the provision oflocal public services. It exists to help encourage joint working between these organisationsby developing joint projects to invest resources in a co-ordinated way. Together, the PSPresponds to, and meets, the objectives of the Local Area Agreement (LAA) so as to bestmeet the needs of local people.

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