Local Government Community Services Perspective

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Local Government Community Services Perspective

• David Williams MRICS
• Director of Property and Assets - Responsible for
  Strategic Property Management
• Also works in design construction, acquisitions
  and disposals, regeneration, commercial property
  management
• Chris Sivers
• Director of Community responsible for Safer and
  Stronger Communities, including community
  facilities

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Swindon History

• Investment in community infrastructure
• Stand-alone community centres
• Leisure/sports
• Use of surplus assets to support
  charitable/not-for-profit activity
• Community schools
• Partnership developments

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Community Services

• Connecting People, Connecting Places
• Make use of local assets to support locality
  working
• Pinetrees Community Centre as a model
• Local people as a part of the changes we want to
  make

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Next Steps

• Quirk Report
• New thinking
• Community Asset Strategy

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Challenges

• Not one size fits all
• Challenges
• Opportunities
• The Way Forward in Swindon