Local Development Framework

Overview

This is a 10 year strategy to 2020, but it is being guided by One Nottingham’s longer term 20 year Vision for the City of Nottingham for 2030, which is this:

Go ahead Nottingham: Safe, clean, ambitious, proud

Nottingham in 2030 will be a city which has tackled deprivation and inequality by:

• Being one of Europe’s top ten cities for science and innovation, sport and culture
• Making every neighbourhood a great place to live
• Giving the best start in life to all of our children and young people
• Making poverty history

We will do this by being radical, bold and daring to be different

We are proud of our city and confident in its future. We want the city to forge ahead over the next twenty years, squarely facing its challenges and showing ambition in everything we do.

Right at the heart of this vision – and this strategy – is a determination that over the next two decades we will fashion a new direction for Nottingham where accelerated wealth creation goes hand in hand with a decisive breaking of the cycle of inter-generational poverty through early intervention, so that more of our children grow up to benefit from the city’s wealth and with higher aspirations.

In 2030, Nottingham must not only be wealthier, but fairer. The true test of whether we have succeeded will be how many of our children grow up to achieve more than their parents.

Our twenty year Vision is that by 2030:

• Nottingham will be firmly established as one of Europe’s leading cities for science and innovation, with a reputation for world-class research and a thriving knowledge-based economy that provides high quality jobs for local people as well as attracting the brightest talent from across Europe.
• We want Nottingham to be a city where every neighbourhood is an attractive, sustainable and safe place to live and grow up, with each neighbourhood having its own unique character.
• Nottingham will be recognised nationally as an aspiring and family-friendly city where all of our children and young people grow up to be ambitious and equipped to succeed.
• We will break the inter-generational cycle of poverty that exists in too many communities by tackling causes not just symptoms through early intervention, and achieve a new level of social mobility so that every child in the city can aspire to the same heights.

These are big aspirations. We will not achieve them by "muddling through" or by sticking to conventions. We will need to be radical in our analysis of what we must do, bold in our willingness to act and not afraid to be different.

Involvement

This strategy has been developed in full consultation with a wide range of residents, businesses, community, voluntary and faith groups and public agencies across Nottingham.

In 2007/8 One Nottingham ran a major public consultation and visioning exercise – I’maginiNG Nottingham – asking people what they wanted their city to look like in the future, and what they valued about it today.

The consultation process involved discussions:

• In focus groups, open events and one-to-one conversations
• Across every area of the city
• With residents, voluntary, community and faith groups, businesses, agencies

The findings of this research were analysed and drawn upon in helping to shape this strategy’s vision and priorities. Partners in One Nottingham have also been closely involved in shaping the vision, priorities and the strategy itself through workshops and a series of collaborative work streams in the autumn of 2008. This strategy was also extensively consulted upon, across One Nottingham’s members, during the spring of 2009.