Local economy - development
Pride Partnership
Pride Partnership is Rochdale Borough’s Local
Strategic Partnership that is bringing together all of the key
groups and organisations responsible for providing vital services
within the borough. This Partnership, made up of the Council, PCT,
Police and organisations within the business, community and
voluntary sector, ensures that there is effective and co-ordinated
work between all the partners by building on the successes of
existing work and helping to develop long-term joint policies and
strategies.
The Partnership's vision
Our Vision is of a thriving place
where people want to live, work, visit and do business – a place in
which we can all take pride.
The Partnership’s aims
Our aims are that by 2021 the Borough will be a place where:
- Our towns and villages are surrounded by countryside and have
parks and open spaces that are accessible, well maintained and well
used.
- Our people feel safe because we have reduced the level of
crime, drugs misuse and neighbourhood problems, in our towns and
villages to no higher than the regional average.
- Our roads and streets are safe, clean and well maintained.
- We have reduced our impact on the local and global environment
by reducing pollution and waste, and saving energy and water.
- There are more jobs – and better-paid ones – throughout the
Borough so that local people have more money, and poverty and
deprivation are falling. Our businesses are competitive, diverse,
dynamic and well supported.
- We have better lifelong education and training for all ages, so
that people are confident in learning new skills and gaining
knowledge, so that they can achieve their full potential and
aspirations.
- We enjoy good health and well being in all our neighbourhoods
and communities, and have reduced health inequalities.
- We all enjoy warm, safe and secure homes, with choice of
location, size, price and tenure.
- We have access to good shops and arts and leisure facilities,
and events and activities are taking place in all areas.
- We celebrate our ethnic and cultural diversity, and have good
race relations and positive links with other parts of the world. We
respect and maintain our heritage.
- We are well connected to the whole of Great Britain by our high
quality transport system – especially public transport – and by our
electronic and business links.
- Local people are active citizens and shape their future. We are
seen as a national model for partnerships between local people and
organisations.
All of these aims contribute to each other. All of the issues
they cover matter to local people. Some matter more than others do
for some people. But overall, they identified the following
priorities:
- Tackling crime and improving community safety
- Better learning and training outcomes
- Improving the local environment
- Better and more jobs
Pride of Place Community Strategy
2003-2007
In 2003, Pride Partnership developed Pride of Place
which is a community strategy for Rochdale Borough that
outlined improvements required to take place within the Borough
from 2003 to 2007. It set out what needed doing, when and who would
do it.
View the Pride of Place Community
Strategy
Updated and revised
This year the strategy is
being refreshed to reflect the needs of today's Rochdale and
it will continue to focus on all aspects of life in the Borough
including crime, health, employment, education and the
environment.
Pride of Place will include:
- A long term vision and future aims for the Borough in 2021
entitled ‘Vision 2021’
- An action plan to help ensure progress is made towards these
aims over the next few years.