consultation: Partnership seeks your views on priority issues for North Yorkshire, respond by 31 March 2010

The North Yorkshire Strategic Partnership (NYSP) is seeking the views of North Yorkshire’s residents about what it should be focussing on as its top priorities for the county’s communities from 2011.

The NYSP brings together all of the key agencies from across the public, business, voluntary and community sectors in North Yorkshire with the common aim of promoting the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the county’s communities.

The Sustainable Community Strategy 2008/18 sets out the NYSP’s long-term vision for North Yorkshire, focussed around ten themes, including issues such as “community safety”, “economy and enterprise” and “older people”.  Each of these priorities links to a specific target which is deliverable through an agreement between local authorities and other partners and central government.   

The Sustainable Community Strategy will be refreshed during 2010 to ensure that it continues to reflect the needs and priorities of the county’s communities from 2011 onwards.

Views are now being sought on:

• Whether the ten priorities of the Strategy still reflect the needs of local communities;
• Whether there are other priorities which need to be included in this list;
• Whether any of the current ten priorities are no longer critical to local communities for the medium term.

For more details on the current priorities of the Sustainable Community Strategy and details of how to respond to this consultation see either the NYSP website at www.nysp.org.uk or visit the NYCC web site at www.northyorks.gov.uk/consultations or alternatively contact 01609 532750 for further details. 

The consultation ends on 31 March 2010.