The Community Plan for Lyneham is a long-term initiative to promote the social, economic and environmental well-being within North Wiltshire. It is a big building block, to deliver an improved quality of life along with other strategies. It has been developed by the Wiltshire Council - a forum for partners from the private, public, voluntary and community sectors who operate in our area.

Wiltshire Council have a duty to prepare a Community Plan to promote or improve the economic, social and environmental well being of the area. This is, however, much more than just a plan of the Local Authorities current and future actions. It covers a broad range of priorities and actions identified through a partnership approach, much of which has been led from the community level.

The Plan has been developed and prepared by the Northern Community Area Partnership of the former North Wiltshire district Council, on behalf of the community, that is the people who live and work in Lyneham and also those who visit the area. The aim of the Plan is simply
to improve the quality of life for everyone in our area and it is based on the things the community has told the team that are important to them.

The Community Plan is a broad strategic document rather than detailed and all embracing. It is not intended to cover every local service or activity. Detailed and specific activities are dealt with in existing strategies and plans, such as Development Plan and the Local Transport Plan, etc. However, the Community Plan acts as an overarching framework for these plans and strategies and they will be expected to take forward and implement its vision, priorities and actions.

The objectives of a Community Plan are:

To enable local communities to articulate their aspirations, needs and priorities;
To co-ordinate the actions of the Councils? and of the public, voluntary and community and private sector organisations that operate locally;
To focus and shape the existing and future activity of those organisations so that they effectively meet community needs and aspirations.

The Community Plan must have 4 key components:

A long term vision for the area focusing on the outcomes that are to be achieved;
An action plan identifying shorter term priorities and activities that will contribute to the achievement of the long-term outcomes;
A shared commitment to implement the action plan and proposals for doing so;
Arrangements for monitoring the implementation of the action plan and for periodically reviewing the Community Plan.

Community Involvement
The main underlying principle of the Community Plan is that it should deal with the issues that the local community think are important to their economic, social and environmental well being. The main issues arising from consultations are contained within the Priorities for Action which appear next... More..