Our vision and priorities

Our vision

"West Lancashire Local Strategic Partnership: Improving Quality of Life for All"

We will do this by working together to be:

the cleanest, safest, healthiest and greenest place in the country to live, work and enjoy;
a place where everyone is valued and has the opportunity to contribute; and
a place with excellent, easily accessible and sustainable jobs and services.

Our key objectives:

To improve safety and ensure that people feel safe (safer communities).
To build on the solid foundations of a strong voluntary and community sector and to develop community participation and pride in our neighbourhoods (stronger communities).
To improve health outcomes, promote social wellbeing for communities and reduce health inequalities for everyone (improved health for all).
To provide more appropriate and affordable housing to meet the needs of local people (affordable housing).
To provide good quality services that are easily accessible to all (quality and accessible services).
To contribute to sustainable development through the wise use of natural resources (sustainable development).
To provide opportunities for young and older people to thrive (young and older people).
To create more and better quality training and job opportunities to get more people into work (the economy and jobs).
To protect and improve West Lancashire’s environment including safeguarding our biodiversity (better environment)

Over the next few years, the following key issues will help us to achieve our key objectives and ‘narrow the gap’ for West Lancashire’s residents.

Key Issues:

Alcohol misuse;
Employment/Income (narrowing the gap);
Crime – Serious Acquisitive Crime/Violence/Fear of Crime (narrowing the gap);
Affordable Housing;
Health – Mortality Rates;
Planning for Future Service Needs – The Changing Demographic;
Civic Participation/Influencing Decision-Making;
Young People’s Issues – Tackling Through Activities; and
Climate Change (LCC).

Over the next 2-3 years, we will focus our efforts on addressing these priorities for action:

Developing employment opportunities for young people;
Promoting volunteering and citizenship;
Health (emphasising the need to address alcohol misuse); and
Strengthening and protecting CCTV provision.

We will do this by:

1. Delivering our Key Projects

2. Delivering our Executive Work Programme

3. Making the best use of the resources available to the LSP

Our vision and priorities are laid out in full in the Sustainable Community Strategy.