Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

Vale Community Strategy

Under the Local Government Act 2000 and Sustainable Communities Act 2007, the Council is responsible for preparing a sustainable community strategy. Government guidance requires the strategy to have regard to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the Vale and to identify key priorities for action which will help secure that well being for the future.  

The strategy for sustainable communities sets out the vision for the future of the Vale; identifies the issues that will affect our future and identifies the priority actions that will help us to shape the place we live in and thus help to achieve the vision. The strategy is based on clear evidence of particular local needs but also takes into consideration the aspirations of local residents, employers and community organisations. It is also important to take into account the resources that are likely to be available to meet these needs and aspirations.

The strategy can be downloaded from the right of the page. As it is such a big document we have divided it into the following sections:

• Part 1 - foreword, introduction and developing the strategy
• Part 2 - the issues and what you had to say, the Vale today, our vision for the future and priorities for action
• Part 3 - social progress which recognises the needs of everyone
• Part 4 - maintenance of high and table levels of economic growth and effective protection of the environment
• Part 5 - appendices

The full version of the document is also available from the right of the page but please be warned this may take some time to download.

What is the Vale Partnership?

The Vale Partnership is a Local Strategic Partnership which was set up by the Council to help it prepare the first community strategy for the Vale. A Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is a way of bringing together the public, private and voluntary sectors of a local authority district to work jointly to tackle issues and plan for the future. The Vale Partnership produced the first community strategy for the District in 2004. In 2007 the Vale Partnership began to look again at how it was going to achieve genuine improvements for local people.

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