Our Aims:
We want to build and support strong, active and inclusive communities across the Parish to encourage people to take an active part in making decisions, deliverying and influencing services across the Parish.
What is a Community Action Plan?
A Community Action Plan is a parish or town strategy outlining the future vision for a particular community.
Two main types of Community Action Plan exist; these are Parish Action Plans and Market Town Health Checks.
Benefits of a Community Action Plan
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The community can assess what its residents want or need.
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It can assist in influencing the organisations / groups servicing your community.
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Can be used as a tool to attract more external funding to your community
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It may increase community development skills.
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The process brings people together, heightens awareness and can increase levels of social inclusion.
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It increases understanding of local democracy, government structures and responsibilities
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It enables local people to shape the future of their village.
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It can be used as reference documents when planning the community strategy.
The Actions are inputted into the Action in rural Sussex Action Plan Database and reports are generated for relevant authorities and Local Strategic Partnerships, who can use the results for their strategic planning.
Parish Design Statement
A new draft Design Statement based on the Action Plan and other local research is now available for review.
You will see the document is in two parts - the first half describes the Parish as is (with some background history and contextual description) and implicitly or explicitly the preferred designs, styles and scenes found in Southwater Parish. The second sets out specific Design Guidelines.
Your comments whether concerning the first part or the Design Guidelines are requested. It would be helpful to know if people feel strongly in favour of for example specific measures for traffic calming or have preferences for building styles, materials etc. If we know and you say why we can collate and accommodate in the final version before it goes forward for adoption by the Parish and District Councils.
The consultation with the Parish is for a six week period until 6th August 2010. Please email comments to Mrs Juliet Tydd, Secretary juliet_tydd@hotmail.com
Southwater Cycle Network Review 2009
- 4.85 MB
Southwater Parish Design Statement
- 4.65 MB
Southwater Action Plan Results May 2009
- 1.73 MB
Final Responses Document
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Community Partnership Memorandum of Understanding
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Southwater Action Team Constitution
- 45 KB