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AVON AREA COMMUNITY COMMITTEE

AVON AREA COMMUNITY COMMITTEE. 21 June 2007. PURPOSE AND CONTENT OF PRESENTATION. To provide an Area based analysis to underpin the State of The District report and the draft Wellbeing Strategy Drawing on Agreed priorities - World Class Stratford project

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AVON AREA COMMUNITY COMMITTEE

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  1. AVON AREA COMMUNITY COMMITTEE • 21 June 2007

  2. PURPOSE AND CONTENT OF PRESENTATION • To provide an Area based analysis to underpin the State of The District report and the draft Wellbeing Strategy • Drawing on • Agreed priorities - World Class Stratford project • Public views – Best Value Satisfaction Survey 2006 • Profile of Area – statistical base

  3. AGREED PRIORITIES – WORLD CLASS STRATFORD

  4. OBJECTIVES (1) • To ensure Stratford upon Avon provides an excellent quality of life and a healthy economic environment for its residents, businesses and visitors. • Centre of excellence for a range of functions, including education, culture, leisure and tourism. • Improving quality and variety of the visitor experience to world-class standards. • To be the most significant and rewarding place for experiencing Shakespeare’s legacy and genius.

  5. OBJECTIVES (2) • Achieving World Heritage Site status • Improving the ways we conserve, interpret and present historical, architectural and landscape heritage • Strong sense of place and local distinctiveness in all new development • Adequate supply of affordable housing • Co-ordinating new developments and public spaces to create a distinctive whole, integrated with the existing fabric of the town

  6. WORLD CLASS STRATFORD OBJECTIVES (3) • Suitable development that is sustainable, mixed-use, distinctive, high quality, attractive and reduces the need to travel. • Improving the public accessible areas and connectivity within Stratford in order to enhance the visitor experience and create an environment that will support business growth and job creation. • improving traffic movement in and around town, and creating an effective public transport interchange for the town.

  7. National Best Value Satisfaction Survey 2006 Answers from respondents in Avon Area

  8. What most needs improving inStratford District?

  9. POSITIVE Highest satisfaction with parks & open spaces and most likely to have visited them More likely to use sports/leisure facilities every day More likely to find out about SDC through local media More in contact in person Feel they have opportunities for participation in local decision making more than others NEGATIVE Majority of community safety aspects Less sense of belonging to neighbourhood More likely to say: Local recycling facilities got worse Sport/Leisure facilities got worse Lowest satisfaction rate with Council (48%) and say doing worse job than three years ago SATISFACTION COMPARED TO WHOLE DISTRICT

  10. NEGATIVE Less likely to use information provided by Council Less likely to contact Council by telephone and website More likely to disagree that they can influence decisions affecting local area Less likely to agree that Council is making local area a good place to live Less likely to say Council are; efficient, provide good value for money, listens & acts on concerns of residents SATISFACTION COMPARED TO WHOLE DISTRICT (CONTINUED)

  11. PROFILE OF AVON AREA STATISTICAL BASE

  12. ECONOMIC WELLBEING • 2,378 households in receipt of means tested benefits (11.8% compared to 12.6% District-wide) • Unemployment rate of 2.0% in 2001 compared to 1.1% across the District as a whole (1.3% in 2006)

  13. ENVIRONMENTAL WELLBEING • No data yet available at Area level

  14. SOCIAL WELLBEING • 4 Wards in priority for improving health (Stratford Mount Pleasant; Stratford Avenue and New Town; Bidford; Salford;) • 11.6% Social Housing in 2001 compared to 12.4% across District • 2,500 recorded crimes (67.5 per 1,000 residents) in 2006/07 compared to District average of 63 – 2nd highest rate for an Area • 1,537 Anti-Social Behaviour incidents in 2006/7 (41.5 per 1,000 residents) compared to district average of 35.8 – 2nd highest rate for an Area

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