On Monday 21 November, the Council’s Cabinet will be asked to approve a refresh of the Thriving Neighbourhoods Strategy.
The Strategy illustrates how the Council will continue to put communities at the heart of everything they do to ensure Rotherham residents can feel happy, safe and proud.
Cabinet approved the initial Thriving Neighbourhoods Strategy in November 2018. The updated Strategy now aligns with the ambitions set out in the Council Plan (2022-2025) under the ‘Every Neighbourhood Thriving’ theme and acknowledges that the Council’s neighbourhood working model needs to evolve to meet the needs of communities across the borough.
The refreshed Thriving Neighbourhoods Strategy focuses on how the Council will take a ‘place-based’ and ‘strengths-based’ approach when working with local communities.
In doing so, it promotes the role of Ward Councillors as community leaders, who act as a driving force and catalyst for bringing residents, community groups and those that provide services together to tackle locally identified ward priorities. Building on the strengths, skills, resources and knowledge within local communities, Councillors will continue to work with partners to address issues such as anti-social behaviour, the environment, and the cost-of living crisis.
Councillors will be promoting the Thriving Neighbourhoods Strategy across their communities in early 2023, which will provide residents the opportunity to shape how it is delivered as well as discuss local issues that could shape future ward priorities.
Councillor Sarah Allen, Deputy Leader of Rotherham Council and Cabinet Member for Neighbourhood Working, said:
Strategies can be very dry documents but this one is genuinely exciting because it shares with residents, our partners, and our staff exactly how we want to engage in our neighbourhoods. It reinforces our aspiration to make every neighbourhood a thriving place with a sense of identity that is shaped by the people who live and work there.
“It is very much about Councillors working with their communities to identify local priorities and to work together on addressing them using their combined talents. It is very much about developing activities on residents’ doorsteps, which feel real and important. The Strategy is a document which is describing change and ways of bringing it about whilst keeping people and neighbourhoods at the forefront of our efforts.”
Find out news and events in your neighbourhood at: www.rotherham.gov.uk/neighbourhoods
You can view the Cabinet Report at: https://moderngov.rotherham.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1103&MId=15664&Ver=4