Community

Category Background

To ensure that the development supports a vibrant, diverse and inclusive community which integrates with surrounding communities.

Designing in accessibility and information for new and existing residents is an essential approach to achieving a healthy populace, maintaining a healthy environment and ensuring a healthy economy.

Regional Spatial Strategy – Living in the North West: Ensuring a Strong, Healthy & Just Society (Section 5.4)

Building sustainable communities and achieving regeneration in the North West is a national, as well as regional, priority. A key component of this is to ensure that health and education services and good quality housing are available to all within the North West.

RSS Policy L3 Existing Housing Stock and Housing Renewal

Plans and strategies should designate areas, where necessary, for comprehensive regeneration as part of a broader course of action to regenerate local communities, reduce health inequalities, improve the sustainability and resource efficiency of the housing stock and its local environmental quality and increase numbers of and access to local jobs and services. The approach to be adopted, whether clearance, or renewal and refurbishment, or a mix of these, will depend on local circumstances.

Regional Economic Strategy – Ensuring a strong, healthy and just society

Meeting the diverse needs of all people in existing and future communities, promoting personal well-being, social cohesion and inclusion, and creating equal opportunities for all.