Biodiversity and Council Delivery

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Biodiversity and Council Delivery

• David Stamp
• Head of Parks and Green Spaces

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A Journey for Parks services

• To Boldly Go!............

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Parks and Green Spaces Strategy For Warrington
2002-2007

• For all its parks and green spaces
• To create accessible, attractive, clean and safe
  environments
• To improve the quality of life
• Contributes to nature conservation and
  biodiversity
• Supports delivery of key town priorities
  including health, culture community safety
  Enables sustainable land management

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Management and delivery - Options, priorities
and decisions with actions that...

• Are Targeted to meet identified needs and
  priorities
• Provide measurable improvement and real
  benefit
• Engage and sustain community involvement and
  partnerships
• Conserve and further improve site and habitats
• Promote the value and contribution of Parks and
  green spaces

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Improvement planningAreas of focus and
achievements to date

• Community vision - park redevelopment
  schemes and project work
• Green Flag - Civic Trust award scheme
• Community Involvement and partnerships
• Resources and capacity building
• Reorganisation
• Comprehensive performance assessment
• Greenspace North West development plan

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Challenges ahead

• Reorganisation within budget allocation
• Financial support
• Skills, knowledge and expertise
• Raising service profile and contribution to
  quality of life
• Retaining effective partnership and
  enabled communities
• Understanding and responding to changing
  needs and priorities

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Delivery and performance

• New performance management arrangements as
  part of service planning process
• Development of service charters
• Reporting publication of actions, targets and
  performance
• Review and change

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The next steps.

• Launch new Parks and Green Spaces Service
• Finalise service plans, actions, targets and
  objectives 06/07
• Progress integration of operational staff to
  site based park teams
• Implement marketing strategy for Parks and
  Green spaces
• Prepare for review and update of a new Park
  strategy for 08/12

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