Sustainable Community Strategy

Local authorities have a duty to produce a Sustainable Community Strategy. The strategy should promote the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. The Community Strategy is the overarching strategy for the area and provides the main framework for all other strategies. It also gives direction for partnership working in Oxfordshire.

Sustainable Community Strategy Development

Since 2007 we have been working on the new Sustainable Community Strategy for Oxfordshire. The strategy will outline the long-term vision for Oxfordshire and will identify common priorities that partner organisations will work together to achieve in the short to medium term. It is developed in consultation with a wide range of people and organisations.

The priorities will be arrived at through a process of analysis of data and consultation. It is a partnership plan not a council plan and draws on evidence and data, regional, sub-regional and county plans and strategies (for example the Regional Economic Strategy, Children & Young People's Plan, report on Public Health, the Oxfordshire Rural Framework etc)

This will feed into the development of the new Local Area Agreement (LAA2) for which a strong evidence-based approach is needed. For details visit the LAA2 section of the website. 

A multi-agency project group has overseen development of the Sustainable Community Strategy. This group supervises the gathering of evidence and analysis of existing plans to present to the Oxfordshire Partnership Board for discussion and agreement. Membership of the project group (.pdf format, 34 Kb)

The Partnership will agree the strategy in November 2008 following a twelve week period of public consultation which is due to take place in July 2008.The project document sets out the scope and detailed plan for the project. Sustainable Community Strategy project document (.pdf format, 150 Kb)

Twelve thematic briefing papers informed the development of the strategy. The briefing papers are designed for any individual or organisation interested in finding more about Oxfordshire and can be downloaded from the Sustainable Community Strategy briefing papers page.

For more details about the project go to the strategy development page