Local Economic and Community Plans LECP | Guidelines 2021
Community Elements of the LECP Nature and purpose of the Community Elements of the LECP The main principles guiding the formulation of the plan under the economic element detailed above also apply to the Community related High-Level Goals. The purpose of the community elements of the LECP is to promote local and community development and to ensure the coordination of relevant public- funded local and community development actions in a way that reduces duplication, targets available resources where they are most needed and maximises benefits for communities. The focus of the community elements of the LECP should be on the social and economic issues that have relevance and can be addressed at a community level. Determination of relevant community concern should involve community engagement and participation, address the specific needs of communities, identify areas of priority and indicate the most appropriate programmes or other resources to be linked with each particular priority. In drafting the community elements of the Plan, regard should be given to the need to:- promote and mainstream equality; develop and implement Sustainable Community Objectives; maximise returns from available resources and reduce duplication; ensure meaningful participation by communities in the planning process, and consultation and engagement with communities generally; utilise community development principles
Content of Community Element The Sustainable Community Objectives (SCOs) may include for example:- improved quality and increased frequency of community-based services available to promote social inclusion and tackle poverty and disadvantage; physical, social, economic and environmental regeneration of deprived urban and rural communities; community building to support sustainable communities e.g. from a housing perspective, objectives that will support the provision of appropriate supports for new housing developments; enhanced education and training infrastructure; the creation of new jobs, especially in the low carbon and green economy; increased access to and use of high quality information and communication technology; and the contribution which communities can make to addressing climate change through mitigation and adaptation and through targeted actions or the inclusion of climate change considerations in actions targeted at other outcomes. These and other relevant objectives should be included in the Framework LECP with the actions to support the achievement of these objectives detailed in the Implementation Plan process (see section B). Identifying Sustainable Community Objectives (SDOs) The achievement of specific objectives based on key priorities for communities will require communication between agencies/local delivery bodies. It will also require greater clarity of responsibility within particular areas of activity, with a willingness by agencies/ delivery bodies to coordinate funding and other interventions in a more collaborative way so as to contribute towards outcomes which may not be theirs alone or may not have been a priority of that particular agency.
in the LECP development process specifically and the work of LCDCs generally; and
set the local context for mainstream funding programmes such as local development/social inclusion programmes, community services programmes, etc.
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