The Craven Sustainable Community Strategy was formally launched by Craven Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) on 5 October 2007 at the first meeting of the restructured LSP board.

The Strategy contains a new vision and 5 new Priorities for Craven.

Further information about these new priorities and the work of the LSP will be added to these pages over the next few weeks.

Our Vision for Craven

We want to develop Craven as a prosperous and sustainable rural community with thriving market towns. 

We are committed to ensuring that the communities of Craven can live, work and play locally, thereby avoiding the District becoming a detached and dislocated dormitory. We will ensure provision of housing to meet local need and enhance connectivity by means of an accessible, high quality, integrated and affordable transport system.

We want to maintain a range of local shops and services, social facilities, open spaces and employment opportunities to meet the needs of a diverse community.

We will celebrate and make the best use of the considerable natural and built heritage of the District. We will encourage balanced growth in sympathy with the rural setting, and seek to secure a prosperous and self-supporting district with a distinct identity and future.

Working with partners in the private, public, community and voluntary sectors, we will improve services, create a prosperous Craven and improve the quality of life for all.

Craven Local Strategic Partnership will be responsible for driving the delivery of this vision and will form a strong partnership of key local organisations working together to achieve this aim. 

We cannot however do everything at once so we have identified the following priorities for action and this is where the LSP will focus its energy and resources over the next 2 years.

Our Priorities For Action

Building a Prosperous District

Improving Transport

Addressing Housing Need

Creating a Sustainable Future – One Planet Living

Strengthening Communities & Providing Accessible Services

The LSP also has a role to play in making sure that the general quality of life in Craven is improving especially for those people who are most disadvantaged.

We will do this by working with the key partnerships and organisations delivering services in Craven and make sure that their strategies and work plans link with the Craven Sustainable Community Strategy.

Many of the activities carried out by these organisations will also feed into the North Yorkshire Local Area Agreement which will form an important part of the future activities of the Craven LSP.