Issue - meetings

To consider and approve the Redditch Sustainable Strategy 2011 – 2014.

(Report attached – Comments of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to follow.

Appendices to Committee Members / Key Officers only and available on the Council’s website)

Members considered the Redditch Partnership Sustainable Community Strategy 2011 – 2014 and its four associated Action Plans.

Officers reported that the Strategy had been structured around four key priorities that had been identified through the 2009 Comprehensive Area Assessment in which Worcestershire was given a ‘red flag’ for differences in the quality of life for people in Redditch compared to the rest of Worcestershire.

The four priorities had been identified as:

a)     health inequalities;

b)     education attainment

c)      the economy; and

d)     areas of deprivation

These priorities had been further developed through consultation with residents in 2010.

Concern was expressed that the comments of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee had not been made available to the Committee.  Officers apologised for the omission and confirmed that they would be made available at the next full Council meeting at which the recommendations of the Executive Committee were to be considered.

RECOMMENDED that

theRedditch Partnership Sustainable Community Strategy 2011 – 2014 be adopted.