Formartine Local Community Plan 2016-2019
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Local Community Plan Formartine 2016 -2019 Contents Foreword ........................................................................ 2 Executive Summary ........................................................... 3 The Formartine Area .......................................................... 5 Looking Ahead .................................................................. 8 Priority 1 Stronger Empowered Communities ........................... 11 Priority 2 Safer Communities .............................................. 14 Priority 3 Tackling Inequalities ............................................ 17 Priority 4 Transport and Connectivity .................................... 20 Contact Us .................................................................... 23 1 Local Community Plan 2016 -2019 Formartine Foreword Welcome to the Formartine Community Plan. Formartine is already a great place to live and work and contains a number of active and thriving communities. Many of them benefit from local people who devote much of their spare time on local activities and projects, working together to improve the area. We have a unique opportunity to make it even better and continue our working partnerships to create a place for the future, to the benefit of all our residents and businesses. Work is already underway to harness exciting opportunities, through delivery of the strategies and projects. This plan sets out the future priorities and actions in relation to strengthening and empowering our communities, safer communities, tackling inequalities and improve transport and connectivity and builds on the priorities in the previous Community Plan and the Single Outcome Agreement. Bringing the new Community Plan and the Scottish Government’s National Outcomes together gives the Formartine Community Planning Partnership the opportunity to create an even stronger, integrated approach for Formartine’s people, their aspirations for their places and their priorities which have been identified through ongoing community engagement over the life of the last plan. The Community Plan provides a framework, priorities and outcomes for organisations in the Formartine area with a clear record of working in partnership with the community. The Plan is the way forward and focuses on the issues and concerns of local people and concentrates on achieving the things that we cannot achieve in isolation. Success in doing so will mean an improved quality of life for residents, both now and in the future, in the Formartine area. Elaine Brown Chair of the Formartine Community Planning Group Formartine Area Manager 2 Local Community Plan Formartine 2016 -2019 Executive Summary The Formartine Community Plan 2016-2019 brings together input from our Community Planning Partners, Elected Members and most importantly the local community. There has been regular interaction with Community Councils and community based forums and other community engagement community action planning and Citizens’ Panel surveys capturing information and views of people about their place and their priorities informing this plan. 3 Local Community Plan 2016 -2019 Formartine As a result and following various workshops it was agreed we should focus on 4 key priorities for Formartine. These priorities are: • Stronger empowered communities • Safer communities • Tackling inequalities • Transport and connectivity The Plan has been developed to provide our strategy for delivering partnership projects or activities across the Formartine area in response to local issues highlighted. We have to thank the solid working partnership that has developed by the Formartine Community Planning Partnership throughout the life of previous Formartine Community Plan to deliver better services and actively engaging in community engagement that has seen the development of this new Plan. There have been many successes, much groundwork on identifying the challenges we champion on behalf of our communities and the work will continue in partnership. Each of the priorities has had an outcome set against it in order to measure impact and the difference made to communities. Several actions have been developed to help deliver each outcome and some are already underway. The plan covers a three year period until 2019, which gives opportunity to develop longer term aspirations. The plan will be reviewed each year and will be updated as and when actions are completed. 4 Local Community Plan Formartine 2016 -2019 The Formartine Area With an estimated population of 43,169 people, the residents of Formartine make up 16.7% of Aberdeenshire’s total estimated population (257,740). Formartine’s population continues to increase and has risen gradually over the past decade. 5 Local Community Plan 2016 -2019 Formartine Population Data Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Children 7706 7677 7816 7858 7985 8050 8132 8180 8155 8068 8098 8103 Working 24588 25168 25837 26385 26834 27239 27568 27796 28135 28249 28124 28039 Age Pensionable 4778 4958 5151 5361 5525 5660 5842 6017 6219 6435 6777 7027 Age TOTAL 37072 37803 38804 39604 40344 40949 41542 41993 42509 42752 42999 43169 Source: National Records of Scotland Mid-Year Estimates (Revised on 2011 Census) 6 Local Community Plan Formartine 2016 -2019 The demographics of the population have shifted over the past decade: • The total working age population has steadily increased since 2002 and is beginning to plateau and feel slightly between 2011-2013. • The number of children (15 and under) is 5.2% higher than in 2002, but is beginning to show signs of declining. • The number of pensionable age individuals is 47.1% higher than in 2002 and continues to increase. • If the demographic trends continue it can be expected that older people will outnumber children within the next 5-10 years. Across Formartine, the life expectancy of the majority of communities is better than the Scottish average. Females continue to have a higher life expectancy at birth than males but the gap is lessening in the decade up to 2013. Formartine residents perceive Aberdeenshire to be a safe or very safe place to live and were least likely to consider crime a problem and least likely to say fear of crime had an impact on their lives. Despite this positive outlook and limited fear of crime, Formartine residents were neither more nor less likely than residents elsewhere in Aberdeenshire to have experienced or witnessed crime in the previous year. However for certain issues, such as antisocial driving, Formartine residents report higher experience of this issue than elsewhere. Emergency hospital admission rates per 100,000 are lower in Formartine for all ages compared to elsewhere in Aberdeenshire and have been decreasing almost yearly between 2008 and 2012. 97% of Formartine resident citizens’ panel respondents agreed that initiatives to reduce avoidable admissions to hospital initiatives were important. 7 Local Community Plan 2016 -2019 Formartine Looking Ahead In 2015 a series of horizon scanning (PESTELO) exercises were carried out to identify current and potential pressures within the Formartine area over the next few years. Horizon scanning is a method of analysing real and potential pressures placed on a partnership and helps highlight where a partnerships strengths and weaknesses lie. These sessions were held with the Formartine Community Planning Group, Formartine Area Committee, Aberdeenshire Council’s Formartine Area Management Team, and consultation across Formartine various Community Forums. 8 Local Community Plan Formartine 2016 -2019 The issues identified through the PESTELO process have been used to inform our priority outcomes for Formartine and those to which we could add value by working together have been included within this plan. Priority Formartine Outcomes National Outcomes Stronger 1. Communities are empowered and 1. We live in a Scotland that is the Empowered supported to develop and most attractive place for doing Communities deliver a vision for their local area business in Europe. 2. Communities are well informed, 2. We realise our full economic involved in decision-making and potential with more and better take a responsibility in delivery of employment opportunities for our local actions and priorities. people. 3. We live in well-designed, 3. Stronger local resilient communities through the sustainable places where we are contribution of volunteers. able to access the amenities and services we need 4. We have strong, resilient and supportive communities where people take responsibility for their own actions and how they affect others 5. We value and enjoy our built and natural environment and protect it and enhance it for future generations 6. We take pride in a strong, fair and inclusive