Partnerships

Team Bury - working together for a better Bury

Introduction

Team Bury is a network of geographic and thematic partnerships across the Borough which involve the public, private and voluntary sectors. This network of partnerships, co-ordinated by the Executive Board, is focused on improving the quality of life for the people of the Borough.

The Community Strategy for the Borogh is produced by the Local Strategy Partnership (Team Bury) and sets out a ten year vision, to make Bury a great place in which to live, work, visit and study". The Strategy is centred around nine ambitions that set out clearly the things we need to achieve to make our vision a reality.

Link to Community Strategy 2008-2018 (1054k, 16 pages, pdf)

For further details about "Team Bury" you can contact the Deputy Head of Urban Strategy & Neighbourhoods, Bury Council, First Floor, Town Hall, Knowsley Street, Bury, BL9 0SW. Tel: 0161 253 6356

Our Ambitions

Our ambitions for Bury are:

The place to live in Greater Manchester
An area where people feel safe and secure
Healthiest borough in the North West
Popular visitor destination
Premier retail town in the north of Greater Manchester
Centre of excellence for education and training in the North West
Each township thriving
An area with first class services
Quality jobs for Bury people

Our Values

Our Community Strategy seeks to demonstrate how, together, we can develop a shared future. This is why we have developed a Bury Values Prospectus that sets out a set of shared values to which we can all subscribe.

Link to Bury Values Prospectus (27k, 2 pages, pdf)

Local Area Agreement: (2008 - 2011)

Bury's Local Area Agreement (LAA) formally approved in July 2008, refreshed in March 2009 and covers a three year period up to the end of March 2011. The LAA is essentially Team Bury's "Delivery Plan" for our Community Strategy. It sets out a range of key actions, with indicators and targets, to ensure we make significant progress towards our ten year vision and ambitions.

Link to Local Area Agreement (156k, 17 pages, pdf)

Local Community Plans: (2008 - 2011)

In order to connect the Community Strategy to the people and the physical communities that make up our Borough, the vision and ambitions have been translated into action plans at a local level, overseen by our Local Area Partnerships (LAPs) - these are called Local Community Plans. LAPs are the focus for Community Planning at this level and will take the lead in ensuring that local priorities are translated into local actions.

Link to Local Area Partnerships web page

Copies of the Local Community Plans are available from areapartnerships@bury.gov.uk please state which area you would like a Local Community Plan for.

Delivery, monitoring and review

Team Bury has a number of thematic partnerships within it, as well as Local Area Partnerships (LAPs) which focus on particular parts of the Borough.

Link to Team Bury web page

Structure of the Partnership (29k, 1 page, pdf)

Sources of information

As well as views and comments, Team Bury took into account information from a number of other sources:

How these ambitions translate into priorities for the Council can be found in the Bury Plan (link to Bury Plan)