The Leicester Partnership and Leicester City Council set up neighbourhood management in 2006.
These pages give you information about what it is and where it is. You can find out more about neighbourhood management generally - or look at pages from each of the neighbourhood management areas to find out what is going on in each one.
If you want to find out more - or think you can work with us - look up our contact details by clicking on the links on the left.
Neighbourhood management is about everyone working together with residents in the neighbourhood to improve the quality of life for people living there. It's about building active communities and making services work together and be more responsive to people's needs. And it's about everyone pulling together to try to close the gap between these neighbourhoods and the rest of the city. Ultimately, we want to create 'sustainable neighbourhoods' - places that people choose to live in.
Neighbourhood Management is in -
- Braunstone (managed by the Braunstone Community Association)
New Parks
Saffron
St Matthews
St Marks
Neighbourhood Management was set up in six of the areas, but following a review in 2007-08 two schemes - Beaumont Leys, Abbey Rise and Stocking Farm and St Peters were wound down and wrapped in to the development of new ward based Community Meetings starting in April 2008. The relevent Cabinet report can be downloaded below.
In each neighbourhood there is -
a neighbourhood manager
a range of information and activities to involve local residents
a neighbourhood board made up of residents, councillors, service providers and the voluntary sector
a neighbourhood delivery plan that brings together action to tackle local priorities and action planned by service providers to make improve the quality of life for people in the neighbourhood
Neighbourhood management arrangements were set up in a number of other parts of the country in 2002 and 2003. The Government carried out an evaluation of these 'pathfinders' in 2006 and concluded that -
“to many practitioners, residents, councillors and service providers, it has the hallmarks of a more intelligent and sustainable approach to Neighbourhood renewal and public service improvement. It is not expensive compared
with more conventional regeneration approaches, it is grounded in its local community with a dedicated local team, and it is clearly focused on improving mainstream services – the services that matter in deprived areas – from the perspective of ‘the customer’.”
Neighbourhood Management – at the Turning Point
Communities and Local Government Department:2006
