Your Neighbourhood Your Area

Neighbourhood Management - bringing the Council closer to you

The Council has made a commitment to strengthening Nottingham's neighbourhoods.

Update

After consultation with a wide range of partners, the City Council has agreed a model for delivering neighbourhood management across the City.  The report proposing the changes was agreed by the Executive Board on 20 November 2007 and can be found by clicking this link.

At the heart of the Neighbourhood Management Approach is improving outcomes for local people through the delivery of locally responsive services which meet the needs of diverse communities. Implementing it across the Council (and across the City) will be challenging. It is challenging because this is not merely about influencing structures but influencing people and culture.

The Council is committed to looking at ways to improve the local accountability and local delivery of a wide range of services and strengthening local governance arrangements that will ensure we build on the success of area working to date.

An important part of this will be ensuring that Area Committees have the capacity and resources to provide local leadership for the Neighbourhood Management Approach.

Local Councillors are well placed to champion local issues and offer constructive criticism, where it is justified. They can help managers make the strategic links between services at a neighbourhood level and are well placed to identify duplication or where it may make more sense to prioritise or pool resources.

Nottingham City Council is committed to:

• Listening to and acting on local problems, issues and concerns about where you live, where you shop, where you play and where you work. The school, the street, the park, the shopping precinct, the industrial estate, the doctors, etc
  
  
• Developing more opportunities for you to influence and be included in local decision-making, how services are run in your neighbourhood, what is spent and where. Creating opportunities for you to contribute to future plans for your neighbourhood, discuss and influence neighbourhood priorities and actions
  
  
• Supporting the new Neighbourhood Management area teams that will take responsibility for the improved coordination and delivery of many of your local services. Supporting front-line councillors, as your area and neighbourhood representative, to address your problems and listen to your suggestions.
  

Nottingham City Council is developing more effective ways of working with working with neighbourhoods and communities through a Neighbourhood Management Approach. We have recently restructured services to enable us to better support the current needs of communities and we have a new dedicated Local Communities service located in the Community and Culture department.

Nottingham City Council is also providing specific support to the voluntary and community sector through grant aid, staff, buildings, advice and information to provide a comprehensive service to communities throughout the City. You can find out more about this on the community development web pages.

For more information on Neighbourhood Management contact:

Interim Services Director
Lianne Taylor
Local Communities
Community and Culture
Isabella Street
Nottingham


Email: helen.aulton@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

For more information on Community Development
Alan Hose
Community Development
Community and Culture

Radford Unity Complex
203 Ilkeston Road
Radford
Nottingham
NG7 3FW

E-mail: alan.hose@nottinghamcity.gov.uk