What We Do

Introduction

The East Sussex Local Area Agreement (LAA)

Community planning and local strategic partnerships in East Sussex

The Sustainable Community Strategy for East Sussex

Local authorities are required by government to work with partners to produce a sustainable community strategy. We need to show how local organisations and agencies will work together to improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of their area while safeguarding the prospects of future generations.

In East Sussex, the six local authorities and six Local Strategic Partnerships in East Sussex have worked together to produce one, integrated strategy - Pride of Place. For information on how we developed this strategy, go to sustainable community strategy development and reviews.

What is Pride of Place?
Pride of Place sets out a shared vision for East Sussex in 2026 to create places where everyone can prosper, be safe and healthy, and live in a high quality environment. 

The strategy contains countywide strategic objectives and priorities to help achieve this vision. There are also detailed sustainable community strategy chapters for each of the districts and boroughs within the county, setting out a clear local vision, local objectives and local priorities. To read the strategy go to Pride of Place.

What are the main priorities?
Through extensive research and consultation, the following issues have been identified as being important to local people. These have been adopted as the main priorities in Pride of Place.

• Developing our economy, creating jobs and increasing prosperity
• Providing high quality education, learning and skills opportunities
• Improving travel choices and access to services
• Providing high quality affordable housing
• Protecting our natural and built environments and adapting and responding to climate change
• Improving health and well-being
• Ensuring people and communities are safe and secure
• Creating strong communities and community leadership
• Enabling people to enjoy culture, sports and leisure

Older people and children and young people also require particular attention because East Sussex has a large and growing older population, and because children and young people are our future.

We also know that, in relation to everything we do, we must:

• reduce inequalities and narrow the gap between the least and most deprived individuals and communities, while raising the quality of life for everyone
• be sustainable as we aim to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits
• provide and deliver effective, high quality, customer-focussed services which meet people's changing needs wherever they live

There will be a number of action plans that help address these priorities, one of which is the Local Area Agreement.