Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone Local Vision
Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone Local Vision delivering neighbourhoods where people want to live 2010
delivering promises, improving lives
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Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 1.
Area Overview................................................................................................ 4
2.
Key Facts About the Area ............................................................................. 6
3.
2.1
Crime, antisocial behaviour (ASB) and young people .............................. 6
2.2
Cleaner estates ............................................................................................ 8
2.3
Quality of homes and estates ..................................................................... 8
2.4
Community involvement ............................................................................. 9
2.5
Education and employment opportunities............................................... 11
2.6
Health awareness....................................................................................... 12
Working Towards Neighbourhoods Where People Want to Live ............ 13 3.1
Environmental quality................................................................................ 13
3.2
Built environment ...................................................................................... 14
3.3
Community involvement ........................................................................... 15
3.4
Education and employment opportunities............................................... 17
3.5
Health awareness....................................................................................... 17
Local Vision – High Level Key Actions ................................................................ 18
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Introduction In April 2006 Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) launched its Vision to 2020 to ‘create confident communities’. This created an opportunity for regeneration with no barriers between residents and our tenants. The first milestone is ‘to create neighbourhoods where people want to live’ by 2010. WDH covers a wide geographical area made up of various communities that are diverse in nature, all experiencing different issues, and all having different needs and aspirations. To give local focus to the Vision to 2020 and lead us to our first milestone we have developed Local Visions. The Local Visions enable ‘local solutions to local issues’ to be made and give each community a real opportunity to reach its full potential.
Background Underpinning the overall Vision is the Regeneration Model that uses Local Visions as a vehicle to deliver our promises but reflect local issues. The Regeneration Model is made up of six stages that aim to understand local needs (challenges), by assessing levels of disadvantage and to deliver confident communities (outcomes). Our process is: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Develop local capacity. Define and produce a Local Vision. Undertake ‘blueprint’ planning. Review investment decisions. Introduce a sustainable management plan. Develop role models through community leadership.
Our aim is to create a community picture into an actual photograph. To underpin this knowledge WDH has actively engaged communities and other partner agencies, fostering tenant and resident involvement to develop capacity within each community These activities have highlighted that people not only want their views listened to, but acted upon to benefit the needs of their individual estates and communities. Local Visions were launched and commenced development at the Local Challenge Events held during November and December 2006, across each of the five areas that make up our district. This was an important first step where Local Management Committee (LMC) and WDH Board Members engaged with a variety of individuals, local community groups, tenant associations, partner agencies such as Groundwork and West Yorkshire Police. The focus for the events was to seek views from those attending on what was required for WDH to deliver its first milestone by 2010 and ‘create neighbourhoods where people want to live’.
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To make this milestone a reality, there are actions that WDH can deliver direct and those where we will need to try to influence the actions of partner agencies. In October 2006 we undertook a full Tenant Census to identify areas where we could improve our services, moving towards supplying tenants with a ‘bespoke’ service. We are using the information from the Tenant Census to ensure that we are more proactive in the services offered to customers. We will also be able to identify the best ways of reaching all of our tenants to obtain their views of our services, by enabling us to identify and engage with hard to reach groups. During October and November 2007, all five Local Visions were reviewed at each of the five Local Challenge Events. This review of the Local Visions is a key step to engage with tenants, residents, LMC members, and other partner agencies to assess the progress made since the launch of the Visions. The review was also used to gather views and suggestions to guide the next steps for the Local Visions. Following the event, the views and suggestions were gathered and the direction of the Visions were adjusted accordingly to represent these views of the local communities. The creation of Local Visions and information from the Tenant Census can only lead to successful regeneration within the Wakefield area. This will be delivered by complementing our major Investment Programme with substantial environmental and economic improvements. Empowering individuals and communities in this process will encourage inclusion, pride and sustainability for an estate and a real improvement to people’s lives. Above all Local Visions provide local solutions to local issues leading us to 2010 when WDH will have ‘created neighbourhoods where people want to live’ and commenced the creation of confident communities.
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Regeneration Model
ASSESS LOCAL NEEDS (CHALLENGES)
1
4
Develop Capacity
Improvements
2
5
Define Local Vision
Change the Place
3
6
Produce Blue Print
Community Leadership
CONFIDENT COMMUNITIES (OUTCOMES)
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1.
Area Overview
The Pontefract, Knottingley, and Featherstone area is a collection of over 13 communities concentrated mainly along the Wakefield to Knottingley route. There are 7,000 WDH properties in the district, which includes: Pontefract, which has mainly lowrise properties, but has some high rise flats in the town centre. Close to the M62 motorway, this historic market town dates back to Saxon times. A prominent feature of the town is the Race Course with banqueting and conference facilities attracting visitors to Pontefract from further afield. Famed for its confectionery, Pontefract is the home of Haribo, a major employer in the area. Darrington is a rural village which has just 29 WDH dwellings, traditionally built. Comprising 11 two bedroom bungalows, nine two bedroom flats and nine three bedroom houses. This desirable area is on the eastern border of the district adjoining Selby. Ferrybridge sits below the giant cooling towers of the power station and is split into two by the A1 motorway. Properties are spread across small estates. Construction is largely traditional, apart from a small number of Tarran system built properties in the Wentcliffe area. The Wentcliffe area is being redeveloped with new build, two and three bedroomed houses. The first phase is scheduled to be complete by 2008. Knottingley sits between the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Canal. Post war housing development has been mainly to the east and the south and includes the large Simpsons Lane / Warwick Estate, built primarily to house incoming mine workers. Expansion took place in the war years due to the growth in the electricity, mining and glass industries and as a result, much of the housing stock was developed after 1919. WDH’s housing stock is a variety of traditional lowrise dwellings. The largest estate, Warwick, has recently undergone redevelopment to remove the open plan frontages and improve vehicular access. Featherstone rid itself of much of its old industrial housing. Following extensive slum clearance in the early 1970s WDH’s housing stock is mainly traditional pre and post war houses and bungalows and a small number of flats built after 1974. This busy little town has good road and rail links to Wakefield and Pontefract, a high street of shops, leisure facilities and a rugby ground. Ackton is a small village in a rural location on the outskirts of Featherstone. There is only one WDH estate – 107 modern houses and bungalows. Streethouse Estate is mainly traditionally designed family housing. The estate is between Pontefract and Wakefield.
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Sharlston is a rural village on the main Wakefield to Pontefract Road. The housing is pre and post war and includes both traditional and non traditional houses, together with bungalows and independent living flats for older people. Both villages have good road and public transport links giving rise to employment opportunities. This Local Vision is based on a framework of five key themes that people have for their estates and communities. The key areas contain specific issues and actions, they are:
· · · · ·
Environmental quality. Built environment. Community involvement. Education and employment opportunities. Health awareness.
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2.
Key Facts About the Area 1
2.1 Crime, antisocial behaviour (ASB) and young people One of the most important issues for tenants is the ASB on their estates. Table 1, shows that 29% of tenants perceive there is a problem with teenagers hanging around the streets and 20% of tenants perceive there is a problem regarding vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage. Nuisance incidents April – December 2006 in Area 3 Red 26 to 47 Cerise 14 to 26 Orange 8 to 14 Yellow 4 to 8 Blue 1 to 4 Green 0 to 1 Map 1 : Nuisance Incidents Shown by Output Area (OA) April to December 2006 Source : WDH 2006
Table 1: Tenants perceptions of fairly or very big problems in their area Area 3
Average from all five areas
%
%
Teenagers hanging around on the streets
29
28
Vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage
20
20
Drug dealing
16
14
People using or dealing drugs
11
10
7
7
10
8
People causing damage to your home
8
6
People being attacked because of the colour of their skin
4
3
Racial harassment
2
1
Problems with neighbours People being drunk or rowdy in public places
The Home Office defines ASB as ‘a variety of behaviour covering a whole complex of selfish and unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of community life’. The definition covers a range of behaviours including rowdiness and yobbishness, nuisance neighbours and people who dump rubbish or misuse fireworks. In 2005/2006, there were almost 15,000 ASB incidents reported to the police in the whole of the Wakefield district. When these figures are limited to WDH estates, the majority of incidents took place in Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone area.
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Area 1 Lupset, Ossett and Horbury Area 2 Castleford, Airedale and Normanton Area 3 Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone Area 4 Hemsworth, South Elmsall and Crofton Area 5 Wakefield city and Rural
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Table 2: Recorded incidences of ASB Area 3 Estates
%
1,389
24.8
Figures from West Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership and WDH (Table 3) show that from the period 1 April to 31 July 2006, the Warwick, Priory and Chequerfield Estates had the most criminal damage and ASB during that period. Table 3: Criminal damage and ASB
Estate Name
Criminal Damage Estate 1 April – Population 31 July 2006
Criminal Damage Incidents per 1,000 Population
ASB 1 April – 31 July 2006
ASB Incidents per 1,000 Population 1 April – 31 July 2006
Warwick
2,369
279
117.77
60
25.33
Priory
1,776
115
64.75
13
7.32
Chequerfield
2,669
109
40.84
37
13.86
The highest amount of Nuisance Complaints (Table 4), taken during the same period was for Warwick, Priory and Wentcliffe Estates. Nuisance complaints, per 1,000 population, balance the scorecard and shows that Warwick Estate was the most reported within those dates. Table 4: Nuisance complaints (Source WDH) Estate Population
Nuisance Complaints 1 April to 30 September 2006
Nuisance Complaints per 1,000 Population
Warwick
2,369
100
42.22
Priory
1,776
50
28.16
571
47
82.32
Estate Name
Wentcliffe
Warwick, Priory and Chequerfield Estates were the highest ranking in the area for ASB (Table 5). Table 5: ASB totals (Source WDH) Estate Name
Estate Population
ASB – 1 April to 30 September 2006
ASB per 1,000 Population
Warwick
2,369
115
48.55
Priory
1,776
67
37.73
Chequerfield
1,669
53
31.76
Wakefield Community Safety Partnership shows that for the period 2005/2006 there were a total of 1,244 incidents of reported crime across the whole of the district carried out by 807 individuals aged 17 or under. This equates to 13% of the total under 17 population. Crimes they are committing are not necessarily on the estate where the offenders live. Girnhill, Carleton Glen and Warwick Estates rank the highest for the area.
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Table 6: Offences by 17 year olds and under Estate Name
Estate Population
Incidents
Offences by 17 Years and Under Resident on Estate per 1,000 Population
Girnhill
266
6
22.56
Carleton Glen
619
9
14.54
2,369
33
13.93
Warwick
2.2 Cleaner estates Our tenants state that the cleanliness of the area is important to them. Table 7: Tenant perceptions on environmental issues (Source Tenant Survey 2005) Area 3 % Vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage
20
Litter and rubbish in the streets
14
Table 8: Environmental issues that are important to Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone tenants (Source Tenant Survey 2005) Area 3 % Cleanliness of the area
93.9
Upkeep of open spaces
90.1
The upkeep of the outside of your home
88.1
2.3 Quality of homes and estates According to the Tenant Survey 2005 over a fifth of WDH’s tenants rate their property as poor. The main reasons given include: Table 9: Condition of property All WDH % Needs modernising
25
Property is in need of major improvements
23
Needs new windows / doors
22
Problems with damp
14
Draught proofing needed
12
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Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone area are working with Strategic Partners to bring peoples homes up to a decent standard. New and current schemes are expected to be complete by 2010/2011. WDH Improvement Programme in Area 3 Green Amber Red
2005 / 2006 2006 / 2007 2007 / 2008
Map 2 : WDH Improvement Scheme Source : WDH 2006
Table 10: Areas in the Decent Homes Standard programme (Source WDH programming) Completed Schemes
Current Schemes
Imminent Schemes
Heating / Window Replacements – Current and Completed
Pontefract
3 Knottingley
2 Pontefract
Broomhill
Featherstone
1 Pontefract
2 Ferrybridge
Knottingley
Knottingley
1
Huntwick
Featherstone Pontefract
Current Scheme Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge
New build two and three bedroomed houses
2.4 Community involvement Resident involvement is about making sure that all residents – especially those that do not normally become involved – have the opportunity and choice to have a say in the decisions that affect their homes and communities.
Tenant and Residents Associations in Area 3 Licence 1000043931
Map 3 : Tenant and Residents Source : WDH 2006
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WDH actively promote tenant participation through various tenant consultation events and representatives from the Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone Management Team regularly attend community group meetings offering a supporting role. The Tenants Survey 2005 states that 52% of the area’s tenants are aware of WDH’s efforts to promote tenant participation and 68.9% are satisfied with participation in management decisionmaking. Table 11: Promotion and participation of tenants (Source: Tenants Survey 2005) % Promoting tenant participation
52.0
Participation in management and decision making
68.9
Table 12: Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone participation Activities
Support
Community Groups in the area 19 Community football Estate Walks Clean up days Sponsored Walks Healthy Living Social Practical help Tenant Involvement the area
Area Housing Forums LMC Meetings Local Tenant Challenge Day
The Knottingley, Pontefract and Featherstone area is very active in terms of the number of tenants’ and residents’ groups that represent our estates. The groups are very diverse with each developing their own projects which have included estate clean up days, street football tournaments, to teach leadership skills, arts and craft sessions, bingo sessions and trips for the young and old. Such efforts are not only having an impact both on the lives of the young people who are engaged, but also on the people within the community as everyone works together to bring about positive change. By working closely with partners such as Groundwork, local groups have been involved in all stages of planning environmental improvements to their estates. This is reinforced by a programme of estate walks with Estate Management employees where local residents can identify their issues and make suggestions about what other improvements they would like to see.
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2.5 Education and employment opportunities Unemployment claimant count sourced from Wakefield Council, Wakefield District Key Economic Indicators, March 2006, show that the percentage of people claiming unemployment benefit in the Wakefield district is almost twice the national average 23.4%. Evidence suggests that as many as 65% of tenants in the social rented sector can be described as ‘economically inactive’, that is retired or permanently sick or disabled (source ODPM, Survey of English Housing, 2003/2004). Those people defined as economically active include people who are employed and people who are unemployed but looking for work. The average figure for all tenants working full time is 22% across England. The average for WDH is ten points below this 12%. Table 13: Percentage of economically active tenants in the area (Tenant Survey 2005) Full Time
Part Time
Self Employed
Unemployed
Total %
12
7
1
8
28
One of the aims in the Vision to 2020 is to develop an educated, skilled and flexible workforce. Currently, the picture of educational achievement in the Wakefield district overall is relatively poor. Wakefield Road, Eastbourne and Warwick estates are in the top 10% of the most deprived super output areas in England for Education, Skills and Training. The 2001 Census reveals by ward, the percentage of population aged 1674 without qualifications within Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone. Working Age Adults with No or Low Qualifications Indicator Red Cerise Orange Yellow Blue Green
69 to 78% 62 to 69% 56 to 62% 48 to 56% 39 to 48% 22 to 39%
Map 4 : Working Aged Adults with No or Low Qualifications Indicator
Table 14: Percentage of the population in the area aged 1674 without qualifications Ward
%
Knottingley
48
Featherstone
46
Pontefract North
41
Pontefract South
34
The National Average stands at 29%; Wakefield Average stands at 39%.
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2.6 Health awareness The health of people in the Wakefield district is relatively poor and the health of tenants is poorer still. The Decent Homes programme has always been about improving the health of tenants and it will provide some obvious benefits. For example, improvements to insulation, is likely to reduce the prevalence of fuel poverty and illnesses that are related to it. However, there are some aspects of health that the programme will not be able to address and these will require other interventions. In these cases examples of good practice have shown that they can have the added effect of improving the local area. It is anticipated that successfully increasing levels of activity will reduce both the number of working days lost to sickness and the impact on the NHS. Generally, there is a link between deprivation and poor levels of health. This latter point is significant because it is in the interests of the local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to reduce sickness, particularly in deprived areas. Table 16: Health by ward (Source Census 2001) All People
Good Health
Fairly Good Health
Not Good Health
%
%
%
Featherstone
14,175
61.21
24.25
14.55
Knottingley
13,503
61.05
25.21
13.74
Pontefract North
16,226
64.36
23.23.
12.41
Pontefract South
13,523
66.41
22.29
11.31
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3.
Working Towards Neighbourhoods Where People Want to Live
The Local Vision for Knottingley, Pontefract and Featherstone, has been developed from information contained within the Tenant Survey 2005 and from key issues and suggestions obtained from the Local Tenant Challenge Day and Employees Challenge Day 2006.
3.1 Environmental quality ·
Clean, safe and attractive estates
People would like an environment that presents a clean, safe and attractive place to live. Tenants and residents can directly control the environment within the envelope of their own home but have less control of the environment outside of their home. Although some estates have more owners than tenants people nevertheless expect WDH to take the lead role in improving the estate environment. Tenants and residents would like us to reduce the amount of ASB on our estates with particular attention to hot spot estates within our area. Youths hanging around estates at night and making people fearful continues to be a particular issue. Under the key theme Community Involvement, shown in the Action Plan, there are suggestions to address this issue. Estate Management Officers continue to work closely with the Tenancy Support Team, the Police and Community Groups to combat nuisance and ASB.
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Estate Officers continue to monitor the condition of estates and individual gardens on a regular basis. As a last resort we will look to take Court action against tenants and owners of sold properties who have an untidy garden and fail to bring their garden up to an acceptable standard. We will continue to encourage tenants and residents to maintain a tidy garden and through our Estate Impact Team we will try and provide assistance to people who need help with their gardens. The winners of the annual garden competition have recently been published and we will seek to encourage as many nominations as possible for next year’s competition. We will inspect all public open space on our estates and prepare plans to upgrade sites that are in need of upgrading. If public open space is not aesthetically pleasing and does not add value to the estate then it is in need of upgrading. We will continue to work in partnership with Groundwork Wakefield to develop Environmental Blueprints for our estates. Environmental Blueprints are presently being developed for Huntwick Estate, Featherstone and Cobblers Estates, Pontefract. We will continue to develop and carry out small environmental schemes of work outside of the Blueprint arrangements.
3.2 Built environment ·
Improve the quality of our homes and estates
People would like quality homes in an attractive estate environment that meet needs and aspirations. We will continue to bring homes up to a Decent Standard and identify substandard housing that is in need of replacing. There will always be better houses and estates than others but through demolition and new build we will try to bridge the gap between what is good and bad.
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Through our Asset Management Strategy we will try and develop regeneration opportunities to deal with unsatisfactory housing at The Island Flats, Knottingley, The Avenues, Pontefract and Eastbourne Terrace, Pontefract. Our new build scheme at Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge is well underway. Other new build schemes are planned for sites located at Ladybalk Lane, Pontefract, Love Lane and Pontefract and at Eastbourne, Pontefract. We will continue to identify potential sites for new build schemes within the area. Lack of offstreet car parking and traffic congestion is becoming an increasing problem on our estates. Most of our garage sites have suffered from a lack of investment and this has resulted in garages and sites where people are reluctant to park their cars. We will inspect our sites and prepare schemes of work that will include the provision of street lighting and resurfacing work.
3.3 Community involvement ·
Young People
People continue to feel that more needs to be done to engage with young people. We should encourage good behaviour and provide recreational facilities so that young people do not have to hang around estates. At the Local Challenge Day tenants and residents felt that WDH should focus on investigating the type of activities young people would like on their estates. We are in the process of carrying out extensive consultation with young people on the Warwick Estate, Knottingley to support a Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) bid for a detached youth worker project on the estate.
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The project is intended to run alongside the Adventure Playground Centre that provides play activities for children under 14 years of age. We are working in partnership with NACRO and the Youth Services so that we can deliver an effective service. We are working alongside the Council and Residents to provide a multi use games area and youth shelter on the Priory Park at Featherstone. Extensive consultation has been carried out with young people on the estate. In partnership with Groundwork we will continue to engage with young people in the design and implementation of blueprint and other environmental work identified for specific estates.
We will apply for any external funding that is available to provide facilities for young people on our estates. External funding has been obtained to create a community garden and children's play area on public open space at Monkhill Estate, Pontefract following extensive consultation with young people and residents on the estate.
We will encourage young people on our estates to become involved in the Community Leadership Programme. We will arrange community litter pick and awareness days involving young people on our estates.
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We will continue to work in partnership with the Police and Wakefield Council’s Antisocial Behaviour Unit in arranging community events aimed at high school pupils to raise their awareness of the affects of ASB.
3.4 Education and employment opportunities ·
Encourage local residents into formal education
We will act as a signposting service, such as Northern College, to involve residents who wish to pursue formal education qualifications. We will continue to participate in the Active Learning for Resident qualification and work with the Central Engagement Team to access internal training opportunities for committee members of local community groups.
3.5 Health awareness ·
Maximise the awareness of healthy eating and healthier lifestyles
We will work with community groups to maximise the amount of funding available from organisations promoting healthy living and awareness. We will negotiate access to communitymanaged buildings leased by WDH for health promotion sessions and events.
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Organise five clean up days Provide clean, Create pride in our on estates. safe and neighbourhoods and attractive sustain overall Continue to work with estates. tenant satisfaction Groundwork on Blueprint with WDh over 90%. schemes.
A3 and S32
Upgrade sites that are in need of upgrading.
Monitor the standard of grass cutting services during grass cutting period.
Take appropriate action where there have been breaches of tenancy agreement in relation to gardens.
Carry out a full annual Garden Survey on our estates.
Utilise the Estate Impact Team to by moving dumped rubbish and graffiti.
Target
Action (what and how)
Ref
Outcome
Measureable
Specific
Neighbourhood Partnership Manager
Estate Manager
Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
L
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
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A3 and S33
Continue to identify potential sites for new build.
Work closely with the Regeneration Team on the Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge new build and other new build schemes at Ladybalk Lane, Love Lane and Eastbourne, Pontefract.
Utilise the Asset Management Strategy by developing regeneration opportunities such as The Island Flats, Knottingley, The Avenues, Pontefract and Eastbourne terrace, Pontefract.
Estate Officers continue to work closely with the Tenancy Support Team, the Police and community groups to combat nuisance and ASB.
Be responsive to utilising the Target Hardening Team when peoples' homes are not secure.
Outcome
Bring homes up Create places to a decent where people standard and want to live. identify sub standard housing in need of replacing..
Target
Ref
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific
Neighbourhood Manager
Area Manager
Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
L
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Progress to date
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A3 and S32
Target
Ref
Continue to encourage young people on our estates to become involved in the Community Leadership Programme.
In partnership with Groundwork, continue to engage with young people in the design and implementation blueprint and other identified work.
Continue to work alongside Wakefield Council and residents to provide a multi use games area and youth shelter on the Priory Park at Featherstone
Engage with young people on our estates and Apply to CRT for funding to encourage them support a pilot programme to get involved in for detached youth workers activities. on the Warwick Estate.
Investigate the types of activities young people would like on their estates.
Inspect garage sites and prepare schemes of work that will include the provision of street lighting and resurfacing work.
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific
Reduction of ASB by creating abetter place to live.
Outcome
Neighbourhood Partnership Manager
Estate Manager
Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
L
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Various meetings with potential partners and CRT.
Consultation has been carried out for the CRT bid.
Progress to date
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A3 and S32
A3, S32 and S59
Target
Ref
Outcome
Work with community groups to maximise the amount of funding available from organisations promoting healthy living awareness.
Work closely with the new CRT signposting programme being set up in Featherstone.
Access internal training opportunities via Engagement Team, for committee members of local community groups.
Work with Central
Learning for Residents programme
Maximise the awareness of healthly eating and healthier lifestyle.
Neighbourhood Partnership Manager
Who
Resources
Awareness of Neighbourhood how to acquire a Partnership healthier lifestyle. Manager
Act as a signposting service Encourage local Increase in self to involve residents who wish residents into esteem and help to pursue formal education. formal people back to education. work. Continue with the Active
In partnership with the Police and Wakefield Council’s Antisocial Behaviour Unit, we will continue to arrange community events aimed at high school pupils to raise their awareness of the affects of ASB.
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific Cost (£)
Date
L
L
M
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Signposting services by CRT to open in November/ December 2008.
Active learning ongoing.
Progress to date
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Work with PCT and other organisations as a signposting service.
Negotiate access to communitymanaged buildings leased by WDH for health promotion sessions and events.
Outcome
Target
Ref
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Progress to date
Vision to create confident communities
Mission to inspire, transform and promote excellence
Values to be creative, inclusive and work with integrity
delivering promises, improving lives
delivering promises, improving lives
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Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................. 1 1.
Area Overview................................................................................................ 4
2.
Key Facts About the Area ............................................................................. 6
3.
2.1
Crime, antisocial behaviour (ASB) and young people .............................. 6
2.2
Cleaner estates ............................................................................................ 8
2.3
Quality of homes and estates ..................................................................... 8
2.4
Community involvement ............................................................................. 9
2.5
Education and employment opportunities............................................... 11
2.6
Health awareness....................................................................................... 12
Working Towards Neighbourhoods Where People Want to Live ............ 13 3.1
Environmental quality................................................................................ 13
3.2
Built environment ...................................................................................... 14
3.3
Community involvement ........................................................................... 15
3.4
Education and employment opportunities............................................... 17
3.5
Health awareness....................................................................................... 17
Local Vision – High Level Key Actions ................................................................ 18
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Introduction In April 2006 Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) launched its Vision to 2020 to ‘create confident communities’. This created an opportunity for regeneration with no barriers between residents and our tenants. The first milestone is ‘to create neighbourhoods where people want to live’ by 2010. WDH covers a wide geographical area made up of various communities that are diverse in nature, all experiencing different issues, and all having different needs and aspirations. To give local focus to the Vision to 2020 and lead us to our first milestone we have developed Local Visions. The Local Visions enable ‘local solutions to local issues’ to be made and give each community a real opportunity to reach its full potential.
Background Underpinning the overall Vision is the Regeneration Model that uses Local Visions as a vehicle to deliver our promises but reflect local issues. The Regeneration Model is made up of six stages that aim to understand local needs (challenges), by assessing levels of disadvantage and to deliver confident communities (outcomes). Our process is: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Develop local capacity. Define and produce a Local Vision. Undertake ‘blueprint’ planning. Review investment decisions. Introduce a sustainable management plan. Develop role models through community leadership.
Our aim is to create a community picture into an actual photograph. To underpin this knowledge WDH has actively engaged communities and other partner agencies, fostering tenant and resident involvement to develop capacity within each community These activities have highlighted that people not only want their views listened to, but acted upon to benefit the needs of their individual estates and communities. Local Visions were launched and commenced development at the Local Challenge Events held during November and December 2006, across each of the five areas that make up our district. This was an important first step where Local Management Committee (LMC) and WDH Board Members engaged with a variety of individuals, local community groups, tenant associations, partner agencies such as Groundwork and West Yorkshire Police. The focus for the events was to seek views from those attending on what was required for WDH to deliver its first milestone by 2010 and ‘create neighbourhoods where people want to live’.
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To make this milestone a reality, there are actions that WDH can deliver direct and those where we will need to try to influence the actions of partner agencies. In October 2006 we undertook a full Tenant Census to identify areas where we could improve our services, moving towards supplying tenants with a ‘bespoke’ service. We are using the information from the Tenant Census to ensure that we are more proactive in the services offered to customers. We will also be able to identify the best ways of reaching all of our tenants to obtain their views of our services, by enabling us to identify and engage with hard to reach groups. During October and November 2007, all five Local Visions were reviewed at each of the five Local Challenge Events. This review of the Local Visions is a key step to engage with tenants, residents, LMC members, and other partner agencies to assess the progress made since the launch of the Visions. The review was also used to gather views and suggestions to guide the next steps for the Local Visions. Following the event, the views and suggestions were gathered and the direction of the Visions were adjusted accordingly to represent these views of the local communities. The creation of Local Visions and information from the Tenant Census can only lead to successful regeneration within the Wakefield area. This will be delivered by complementing our major Investment Programme with substantial environmental and economic improvements. Empowering individuals and communities in this process will encourage inclusion, pride and sustainability for an estate and a real improvement to people’s lives. Above all Local Visions provide local solutions to local issues leading us to 2010 when WDH will have ‘created neighbourhoods where people want to live’ and commenced the creation of confident communities.
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Regeneration Model
ASSESS LOCAL NEEDS (CHALLENGES)
1
4
Develop Capacity
Improvements
2
5
Define Local Vision
Change the Place
3
6
Produce Blue Print
Community Leadership
CONFIDENT COMMUNITIES (OUTCOMES)
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1.
Area Overview
The Pontefract, Knottingley, and Featherstone area is a collection of over 13 communities concentrated mainly along the Wakefield to Knottingley route. There are 7,000 WDH properties in the district, which includes: Pontefract, which has mainly lowrise properties, but has some high rise flats in the town centre. Close to the M62 motorway, this historic market town dates back to Saxon times. A prominent feature of the town is the Race Course with banqueting and conference facilities attracting visitors to Pontefract from further afield. Famed for its confectionery, Pontefract is the home of Haribo, a major employer in the area. Darrington is a rural village which has just 29 WDH dwellings, traditionally built. Comprising 11 two bedroom bungalows, nine two bedroom flats and nine three bedroom houses. This desirable area is on the eastern border of the district adjoining Selby. Ferrybridge sits below the giant cooling towers of the power station and is split into two by the A1 motorway. Properties are spread across small estates. Construction is largely traditional, apart from a small number of Tarran system built properties in the Wentcliffe area. The Wentcliffe area is being redeveloped with new build, two and three bedroomed houses. The first phase is scheduled to be complete by 2008. Knottingley sits between the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Canal. Post war housing development has been mainly to the east and the south and includes the large Simpsons Lane / Warwick Estate, built primarily to house incoming mine workers. Expansion took place in the war years due to the growth in the electricity, mining and glass industries and as a result, much of the housing stock was developed after 1919. WDH’s housing stock is a variety of traditional lowrise dwellings. The largest estate, Warwick, has recently undergone redevelopment to remove the open plan frontages and improve vehicular access. Featherstone rid itself of much of its old industrial housing. Following extensive slum clearance in the early 1970s WDH’s housing stock is mainly traditional pre and post war houses and bungalows and a small number of flats built after 1974. This busy little town has good road and rail links to Wakefield and Pontefract, a high street of shops, leisure facilities and a rugby ground. Ackton is a small village in a rural location on the outskirts of Featherstone. There is only one WDH estate – 107 modern houses and bungalows. Streethouse Estate is mainly traditionally designed family housing. The estate is between Pontefract and Wakefield.
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Sharlston is a rural village on the main Wakefield to Pontefract Road. The housing is pre and post war and includes both traditional and non traditional houses, together with bungalows and independent living flats for older people. Both villages have good road and public transport links giving rise to employment opportunities. This Local Vision is based on a framework of five key themes that people have for their estates and communities. The key areas contain specific issues and actions, they are:
· · · · ·
Environmental quality. Built environment. Community involvement. Education and employment opportunities. Health awareness.
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2.
Key Facts About the Area 1
2.1 Crime, antisocial behaviour (ASB) and young people One of the most important issues for tenants is the ASB on their estates. Table 1, shows that 29% of tenants perceive there is a problem with teenagers hanging around the streets and 20% of tenants perceive there is a problem regarding vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage. Nuisance incidents April – December 2006 in Area 3 Red 26 to 47 Cerise 14 to 26 Orange 8 to 14 Yellow 4 to 8 Blue 1 to 4 Green 0 to 1 Map 1 : Nuisance Incidents Shown by Output Area (OA) April to December 2006 Source : WDH 2006
Table 1: Tenants perceptions of fairly or very big problems in their area Area 3
Average from all five areas
%
%
Teenagers hanging around on the streets
29
28
Vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage
20
20
Drug dealing
16
14
People using or dealing drugs
11
10
7
7
10
8
People causing damage to your home
8
6
People being attacked because of the colour of their skin
4
3
Racial harassment
2
1
Problems with neighbours People being drunk or rowdy in public places
The Home Office defines ASB as ‘a variety of behaviour covering a whole complex of selfish and unacceptable activity that can blight the quality of community life’. The definition covers a range of behaviours including rowdiness and yobbishness, nuisance neighbours and people who dump rubbish or misuse fireworks. In 2005/2006, there were almost 15,000 ASB incidents reported to the police in the whole of the Wakefield district. When these figures are limited to WDH estates, the majority of incidents took place in Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone area.
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Area 1 Lupset, Ossett and Horbury Area 2 Castleford, Airedale and Normanton Area 3 Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone Area 4 Hemsworth, South Elmsall and Crofton Area 5 Wakefield city and Rural
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Table 2: Recorded incidences of ASB Area 3 Estates
%
1,389
24.8
Figures from West Yorkshire Community Safety Partnership and WDH (Table 3) show that from the period 1 April to 31 July 2006, the Warwick, Priory and Chequerfield Estates had the most criminal damage and ASB during that period. Table 3: Criminal damage and ASB
Estate Name
Criminal Damage Estate 1 April – Population 31 July 2006
Criminal Damage Incidents per 1,000 Population
ASB 1 April – 31 July 2006
ASB Incidents per 1,000 Population 1 April – 31 July 2006
Warwick
2,369
279
117.77
60
25.33
Priory
1,776
115
64.75
13
7.32
Chequerfield
2,669
109
40.84
37
13.86
The highest amount of Nuisance Complaints (Table 4), taken during the same period was for Warwick, Priory and Wentcliffe Estates. Nuisance complaints, per 1,000 population, balance the scorecard and shows that Warwick Estate was the most reported within those dates. Table 4: Nuisance complaints (Source WDH) Estate Population
Nuisance Complaints 1 April to 30 September 2006
Nuisance Complaints per 1,000 Population
Warwick
2,369
100
42.22
Priory
1,776
50
28.16
571
47
82.32
Estate Name
Wentcliffe
Warwick, Priory and Chequerfield Estates were the highest ranking in the area for ASB (Table 5). Table 5: ASB totals (Source WDH) Estate Name
Estate Population
ASB – 1 April to 30 September 2006
ASB per 1,000 Population
Warwick
2,369
115
48.55
Priory
1,776
67
37.73
Chequerfield
1,669
53
31.76
Wakefield Community Safety Partnership shows that for the period 2005/2006 there were a total of 1,244 incidents of reported crime across the whole of the district carried out by 807 individuals aged 17 or under. This equates to 13% of the total under 17 population. Crimes they are committing are not necessarily on the estate where the offenders live. Girnhill, Carleton Glen and Warwick Estates rank the highest for the area.
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Table 6: Offences by 17 year olds and under Estate Name
Estate Population
Incidents
Offences by 17 Years and Under Resident on Estate per 1,000 Population
Girnhill
266
6
22.56
Carleton Glen
619
9
14.54
2,369
33
13.93
Warwick
2.2 Cleaner estates Our tenants state that the cleanliness of the area is important to them. Table 7: Tenant perceptions on environmental issues (Source Tenant Survey 2005) Area 3 % Vandalism, graffiti and other deliberate damage
20
Litter and rubbish in the streets
14
Table 8: Environmental issues that are important to Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone tenants (Source Tenant Survey 2005) Area 3 % Cleanliness of the area
93.9
Upkeep of open spaces
90.1
The upkeep of the outside of your home
88.1
2.3 Quality of homes and estates According to the Tenant Survey 2005 over a fifth of WDH’s tenants rate their property as poor. The main reasons given include: Table 9: Condition of property All WDH % Needs modernising
25
Property is in need of major improvements
23
Needs new windows / doors
22
Problems with damp
14
Draught proofing needed
12
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Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone area are working with Strategic Partners to bring peoples homes up to a decent standard. New and current schemes are expected to be complete by 2010/2011. WDH Improvement Programme in Area 3 Green Amber Red
2005 / 2006 2006 / 2007 2007 / 2008
Map 2 : WDH Improvement Scheme Source : WDH 2006
Table 10: Areas in the Decent Homes Standard programme (Source WDH programming) Completed Schemes
Current Schemes
Imminent Schemes
Heating / Window Replacements – Current and Completed
Pontefract
3 Knottingley
2 Pontefract
Broomhill
Featherstone
1 Pontefract
2 Ferrybridge
Knottingley
Knottingley
1
Huntwick
Featherstone Pontefract
Current Scheme Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge
New build two and three bedroomed houses
2.4 Community involvement Resident involvement is about making sure that all residents – especially those that do not normally become involved – have the opportunity and choice to have a say in the decisions that affect their homes and communities.
Tenant and Residents Associations in Area 3 Licence 1000043931
Map 3 : Tenant and Residents Source : WDH 2006
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WDH actively promote tenant participation through various tenant consultation events and representatives from the Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone Management Team regularly attend community group meetings offering a supporting role. The Tenants Survey 2005 states that 52% of the area’s tenants are aware of WDH’s efforts to promote tenant participation and 68.9% are satisfied with participation in management decisionmaking. Table 11: Promotion and participation of tenants (Source: Tenants Survey 2005) % Promoting tenant participation
52.0
Participation in management and decision making
68.9
Table 12: Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone participation Activities
Support
Community Groups in the area 19 Community football Estate Walks Clean up days Sponsored Walks Healthy Living Social Practical help Tenant Involvement the area
Area Housing Forums LMC Meetings Local Tenant Challenge Day
The Knottingley, Pontefract and Featherstone area is very active in terms of the number of tenants’ and residents’ groups that represent our estates. The groups are very diverse with each developing their own projects which have included estate clean up days, street football tournaments, to teach leadership skills, arts and craft sessions, bingo sessions and trips for the young and old. Such efforts are not only having an impact both on the lives of the young people who are engaged, but also on the people within the community as everyone works together to bring about positive change. By working closely with partners such as Groundwork, local groups have been involved in all stages of planning environmental improvements to their estates. This is reinforced by a programme of estate walks with Estate Management employees where local residents can identify their issues and make suggestions about what other improvements they would like to see.
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2.5 Education and employment opportunities Unemployment claimant count sourced from Wakefield Council, Wakefield District Key Economic Indicators, March 2006, show that the percentage of people claiming unemployment benefit in the Wakefield district is almost twice the national average 23.4%. Evidence suggests that as many as 65% of tenants in the social rented sector can be described as ‘economically inactive’, that is retired or permanently sick or disabled (source ODPM, Survey of English Housing, 2003/2004). Those people defined as economically active include people who are employed and people who are unemployed but looking for work. The average figure for all tenants working full time is 22% across England. The average for WDH is ten points below this 12%. Table 13: Percentage of economically active tenants in the area (Tenant Survey 2005) Full Time
Part Time
Self Employed
Unemployed
Total %
12
7
1
8
28
One of the aims in the Vision to 2020 is to develop an educated, skilled and flexible workforce. Currently, the picture of educational achievement in the Wakefield district overall is relatively poor. Wakefield Road, Eastbourne and Warwick estates are in the top 10% of the most deprived super output areas in England for Education, Skills and Training. The 2001 Census reveals by ward, the percentage of population aged 1674 without qualifications within Pontefract, Knottingley and Featherstone. Working Age Adults with No or Low Qualifications Indicator Red Cerise Orange Yellow Blue Green
69 to 78% 62 to 69% 56 to 62% 48 to 56% 39 to 48% 22 to 39%
Map 4 : Working Aged Adults with No or Low Qualifications Indicator
Table 14: Percentage of the population in the area aged 1674 without qualifications Ward
%
Knottingley
48
Featherstone
46
Pontefract North
41
Pontefract South
34
The National Average stands at 29%; Wakefield Average stands at 39%.
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2.6 Health awareness The health of people in the Wakefield district is relatively poor and the health of tenants is poorer still. The Decent Homes programme has always been about improving the health of tenants and it will provide some obvious benefits. For example, improvements to insulation, is likely to reduce the prevalence of fuel poverty and illnesses that are related to it. However, there are some aspects of health that the programme will not be able to address and these will require other interventions. In these cases examples of good practice have shown that they can have the added effect of improving the local area. It is anticipated that successfully increasing levels of activity will reduce both the number of working days lost to sickness and the impact on the NHS. Generally, there is a link between deprivation and poor levels of health. This latter point is significant because it is in the interests of the local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to reduce sickness, particularly in deprived areas. Table 16: Health by ward (Source Census 2001) All People
Good Health
Fairly Good Health
Not Good Health
%
%
%
Featherstone
14,175
61.21
24.25
14.55
Knottingley
13,503
61.05
25.21
13.74
Pontefract North
16,226
64.36
23.23.
12.41
Pontefract South
13,523
66.41
22.29
11.31
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Working Towards Neighbourhoods Where People Want to Live
The Local Vision for Knottingley, Pontefract and Featherstone, has been developed from information contained within the Tenant Survey 2005 and from key issues and suggestions obtained from the Local Tenant Challenge Day and Employees Challenge Day 2006.
3.1 Environmental quality ·
Clean, safe and attractive estates
People would like an environment that presents a clean, safe and attractive place to live. Tenants and residents can directly control the environment within the envelope of their own home but have less control of the environment outside of their home. Although some estates have more owners than tenants people nevertheless expect WDH to take the lead role in improving the estate environment. Tenants and residents would like us to reduce the amount of ASB on our estates with particular attention to hot spot estates within our area. Youths hanging around estates at night and making people fearful continues to be a particular issue. Under the key theme Community Involvement, shown in the Action Plan, there are suggestions to address this issue. Estate Management Officers continue to work closely with the Tenancy Support Team, the Police and Community Groups to combat nuisance and ASB.
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Estate Officers continue to monitor the condition of estates and individual gardens on a regular basis. As a last resort we will look to take Court action against tenants and owners of sold properties who have an untidy garden and fail to bring their garden up to an acceptable standard. We will continue to encourage tenants and residents to maintain a tidy garden and through our Estate Impact Team we will try and provide assistance to people who need help with their gardens. The winners of the annual garden competition have recently been published and we will seek to encourage as many nominations as possible for next year’s competition. We will inspect all public open space on our estates and prepare plans to upgrade sites that are in need of upgrading. If public open space is not aesthetically pleasing and does not add value to the estate then it is in need of upgrading. We will continue to work in partnership with Groundwork Wakefield to develop Environmental Blueprints for our estates. Environmental Blueprints are presently being developed for Huntwick Estate, Featherstone and Cobblers Estates, Pontefract. We will continue to develop and carry out small environmental schemes of work outside of the Blueprint arrangements.
3.2 Built environment ·
Improve the quality of our homes and estates
People would like quality homes in an attractive estate environment that meet needs and aspirations. We will continue to bring homes up to a Decent Standard and identify substandard housing that is in need of replacing. There will always be better houses and estates than others but through demolition and new build we will try to bridge the gap between what is good and bad.
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Through our Asset Management Strategy we will try and develop regeneration opportunities to deal with unsatisfactory housing at The Island Flats, Knottingley, The Avenues, Pontefract and Eastbourne Terrace, Pontefract. Our new build scheme at Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge is well underway. Other new build schemes are planned for sites located at Ladybalk Lane, Pontefract, Love Lane and Pontefract and at Eastbourne, Pontefract. We will continue to identify potential sites for new build schemes within the area. Lack of offstreet car parking and traffic congestion is becoming an increasing problem on our estates. Most of our garage sites have suffered from a lack of investment and this has resulted in garages and sites where people are reluctant to park their cars. We will inspect our sites and prepare schemes of work that will include the provision of street lighting and resurfacing work.
3.3 Community involvement ·
Young People
People continue to feel that more needs to be done to engage with young people. We should encourage good behaviour and provide recreational facilities so that young people do not have to hang around estates. At the Local Challenge Day tenants and residents felt that WDH should focus on investigating the type of activities young people would like on their estates. We are in the process of carrying out extensive consultation with young people on the Warwick Estate, Knottingley to support a Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) bid for a detached youth worker project on the estate.
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The project is intended to run alongside the Adventure Playground Centre that provides play activities for children under 14 years of age. We are working in partnership with NACRO and the Youth Services so that we can deliver an effective service. We are working alongside the Council and Residents to provide a multi use games area and youth shelter on the Priory Park at Featherstone. Extensive consultation has been carried out with young people on the estate. In partnership with Groundwork we will continue to engage with young people in the design and implementation of blueprint and other environmental work identified for specific estates.
We will apply for any external funding that is available to provide facilities for young people on our estates. External funding has been obtained to create a community garden and children's play area on public open space at Monkhill Estate, Pontefract following extensive consultation with young people and residents on the estate.
We will encourage young people on our estates to become involved in the Community Leadership Programme. We will arrange community litter pick and awareness days involving young people on our estates.
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We will continue to work in partnership with the Police and Wakefield Council’s Antisocial Behaviour Unit in arranging community events aimed at high school pupils to raise their awareness of the affects of ASB.
3.4 Education and employment opportunities ·
Encourage local residents into formal education
We will act as a signposting service, such as Northern College, to involve residents who wish to pursue formal education qualifications. We will continue to participate in the Active Learning for Resident qualification and work with the Central Engagement Team to access internal training opportunities for committee members of local community groups.
3.5 Health awareness ·
Maximise the awareness of healthy eating and healthier lifestyles
We will work with community groups to maximise the amount of funding available from organisations promoting healthy living and awareness. We will negotiate access to communitymanaged buildings leased by WDH for health promotion sessions and events.
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Organise five clean up days Provide clean, Create pride in our on estates. safe and neighbourhoods and attractive sustain overall Continue to work with estates. tenant satisfaction Groundwork on Blueprint with WDh over 90%. schemes.
A3 and S32
Upgrade sites that are in need of upgrading.
Monitor the standard of grass cutting services during grass cutting period.
Take appropriate action where there have been breaches of tenancy agreement in relation to gardens.
Carry out a full annual Garden Survey on our estates.
Utilise the Estate Impact Team to by moving dumped rubbish and graffiti.
Target
Action (what and how)
Ref
Outcome
Measureable
Specific
Neighbourhood Partnership Manager
Estate Manager
Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
L
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
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A3 and S33
Continue to identify potential sites for new build.
Work closely with the Regeneration Team on the Wentcliffe, Ferrybridge new build and other new build schemes at Ladybalk Lane, Love Lane and Eastbourne, Pontefract.
Utilise the Asset Management Strategy by developing regeneration opportunities such as The Island Flats, Knottingley, The Avenues, Pontefract and Eastbourne terrace, Pontefract.
Estate Officers continue to work closely with the Tenancy Support Team, the Police and community groups to combat nuisance and ASB.
Be responsive to utilising the Target Hardening Team when peoples' homes are not secure.
Outcome
Bring homes up Create places to a decent where people standard and want to live. identify sub standard housing in need of replacing..
Target
Ref
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific
Neighbourhood Manager
Area Manager
Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
L
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Progress to date
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A3 and S32
Target
Ref
Continue to encourage young people on our estates to become involved in the Community Leadership Programme.
In partnership with Groundwork, continue to engage with young people in the design and implementation blueprint and other identified work.
Continue to work alongside Wakefield Council and residents to provide a multi use games area and youth shelter on the Priory Park at Featherstone
Engage with young people on our estates and Apply to CRT for funding to encourage them support a pilot programme to get involved in for detached youth workers activities. on the Warwick Estate.
Investigate the types of activities young people would like on their estates.
Inspect garage sites and prepare schemes of work that will include the provision of street lighting and resurfacing work.
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific
Reduction of ASB by creating abetter place to live.
Outcome
Neighbourhood Partnership Manager
Estate Manager
Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
L
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Various meetings with potential partners and CRT.
Consultation has been carried out for the CRT bid.
Progress to date
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A3 and S32
A3, S32 and S59
Target
Ref
Outcome
Work with community groups to maximise the amount of funding available from organisations promoting healthy living awareness.
Work closely with the new CRT signposting programme being set up in Featherstone.
Access internal training opportunities via Engagement Team, for committee members of local community groups.
Work with Central
Learning for Residents programme
Maximise the awareness of healthly eating and healthier lifestyle.
Neighbourhood Partnership Manager
Who
Resources
Awareness of Neighbourhood how to acquire a Partnership healthier lifestyle. Manager
Act as a signposting service Encourage local Increase in self to involve residents who wish residents into esteem and help to pursue formal education. formal people back to education. work. Continue with the Active
In partnership with the Police and Wakefield Council’s Antisocial Behaviour Unit, we will continue to arrange community events aimed at high school pupils to raise their awareness of the affects of ASB.
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific Cost (£)
Date
L
L
M
M
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Signposting services by CRT to open in November/ December 2008.
Active learning ongoing.
Progress to date
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Work with PCT and other organisations as a signposting service.
Negotiate access to communitymanaged buildings leased by WDH for health promotion sessions and events.
Outcome
Target
Ref
Action (what and how)
Measureable
Specific Who
Resources Cost (£)
Date
Probability Impact (When)
Risk
Progress to date
Vision to create confident communities
Mission to inspire, transform and promote excellence
Values to be creative, inclusive and work with integrity
delivering promises, improving lives
