Shaping our future – Lewisham’s sustainable community strategy sets out the vision for Lewisham and the priority areas for action between 2008 and 2020. Shaping our future reflects the challenges our citizens face as well as their aspirations for the future. It is based on a thorough understanding of the borough and its citizens as they are today as well as what the borough and its population will look like in the future. The strategy establishes two cross-cutting principles, that will underline all partnership work in the borough, and six priority outcomes that describe sustainable communities in Lewisham.
Our principles
- Reducing inequality – narrowing the gap in outcomes for citizens.
- Delivering together efficiently, effectively and equitably – ensuring that all citizens have appropriate access to and choice of high quality local services.
Our priority outcomes
- Ambitious and achieving – where people are inspired and supported to fulfil their potential.
- Safer – where people feel safe and live free from crime, antisocial behaviour and abuse.
- Empowered and responsible – where people are actively involved in their local area and contribute to supportive communities.
- Clean, green and liveable – where people live in high quality housing and can care for and enjoy their environment.
- Healthy, active and enjoyable – where people can actively participate in maintaining and improving their health and well-being.
- Dynamic and prosperous – where people are part of vibrant communities and town centres, well connected to London and beyond.
Opportunity and well-being for all – Lewisham’s Local Area agreement
Opportunity and well-being for all is ;Lewisham’s Local Area Agreement (LAA). It is an agreement with central government that establishes challenging targets which address the key inequalities that Lewisham and our citizens face. The Lewisham Strategic Partnership has agreed the LAA and all partner organisations will work to ensure that the targets are met. The LAA is one of the key tools which will allow us to measure how well we are delivering against the priorities of Shaping our future.