Wychavon Community Strategy 2007 - 2010

In October 2007, we launched the last Wychavon Community Strategy (597.64 KB), ‘Shaping the future together’.  This contained the vision and priorities for the Wychavon district from 2007 to 2010.  It set out how the organisations involved in preparing it would work together to improve the quality of life for everyone who lives in, works in or visits the district.

Wychavon is already a good place to live, with beautiful countryside, a rich historic heritage, low crime and life expectancy higher than the UK average.  But there are challenges too, including an annual shortage of affordable housing, recovering from the recent major flooding and limited transport options in rural parts of the district.

Agencies from across the public, private, community and voluntary sectors, plus the district’s three Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) came together to develop this plan to make Wychavon an even better place for everyone.

The strategy followed the same themes that as other community strategies in Worcestershire:

• Communities that are safe and feel safe
• A better environment – for today and tomorrow
• Economic success that is shared by all
• Improving health and well-being
• Meeting the needs of children and young people
• Stronger communities: this theme covers a range of issues including, housing, inclusion, leisure, culture and transport.

For each of the six themes the strategy contained:

• a set of shared priorities, or outcomes that we developed from an in-depth analysis of a range of intelligence about the district, recent market research and consultation.  Sources included:
  • Worcestershire Citizens’ Panel surveys;
  • completed Parish Plans;
  • the Wychavon health profile;
  • research commissioned by Wychavon District Council and the South Worcestershire Crime and Disorder Audit.  
• examples of some things we were already doing to contribute to the priorities, which partners on the Community Plan Core Group identified through a stocktake (85.57 KB) of their current activities and business plans.  
• partnership actions that we will commit to deliver over the life time of the plan, plus other ideas about ways we can work together to contribute to the delivery of the shared priorities.  
• measures of success to help us track the impact of the strategy over its lifetime and beyond.  

We launched Wychavon’s Community Strategy at a partnership event in October 2007.  At the event partners made a public commitment to delivering the Community Strategy by signing up to the shared priorities.  They were also invited to commit to working with others on taking forward some of the ideas for action set out in the plan.  

We are now working with the Worcestershire Partnership to develop a single Community Strategy for Worcestershire.

Further Information

For more information contact:

Cherrie Mansfield
Strategy & Communications
Telephone: 01386 565508 between 9am-5pm, Monday - Friday
Email: cherrie.mansfield@wychavon.gov.uk