What We Do

Introduction

Pride of Place, the Sustainable Community Strategy for East Sussex

The Local Area Agreement (LAA)

Community Planning in East Sussex

Community planning gives local people the opportunity to shape local services and the places where they live, work and spend their leisure time. We see it as a way of helping communities become safer, stronger, healthier, wealthier and more sustainable in the long-term.

There are five districts and boroughs in East Sussex (Eastbourne, Hastings , Lewes, Rother and Wealden). Each of these has a Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) which, like East Sussex Strategic Partnership (ESSP), coordinates community planning and partnership working in their areas.

Each of the five district and borough councils, in partnership with their LSP, are responsible for producing the Sustainable Community Strategy for their area. These strategies are set out in Pride of Place , the Sustainable Community Strategy for East Sussex . They are informed by a variety of local plans in your area, including:

• Parish, Town and Neighbourhood plans which deal with important issues that affect your local area. This could be anything from more activities for young people to better community facilities. These plans, which local people will have been involved in creating, are used to inform community strategies and Local Development Frameworks for your district or borough.

• Local Development Frameworks (LDF) are a collection of policies and plans affecting a local area and, in East Sussex , each of the five districts and boroughs will have its own LDF. Your LDF will, for example, guide how much development there is in your area, where it is located and what infrastructure services are needed to support it.