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County Plan 2020-2024 County plan 2020-2024 y connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity lity sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivit wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainabi hfdscouncil herefordshire.gov.uk “Respecting our past, shaping our future - we will improve the sustainability, connectivity and wellbeing of our county by strengthening our communities, creating a thriving local economy and protecting and enhancing our environment”. y connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity lity sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivit wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainabi Contents Introduction from the Leader 4 Herefordshire 6 Our challenge 7 Using our resources wisely 8 Where the money comes from 10 Where the money goes 11 What we heard 12 Our ambition for Herefordshire 13 AMBITION: Environment 16 AMBITION: Community 18 AMBITION: Economy 22 Useful information 27 y connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity lity sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivity connectivit wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing wellbeing sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainability sustainabi Introduction from the Leader of Herefordshire Council Councillor David Hitchiner Our County plan shapes the always need to safeguard the most enterprise and our fellow future of Herefordshire and aims vulnerable in our communities, public sector organisations. We to encourage and strengthen our but we want to enable everyone to recognise that we will only be vibrant communities, create a feel more strongly a part of their able to deliver on our ambition by thriving local economy and protect local community too. working together effectively. and enhance our environment to ensure Herefordshire remains We want all children and young The council must have financial a great place to live, visit, work, people in this county to have a resilience to enable us to learn and do business. The plan great start in life and be healthy, continue to serve the people of guides the work of the council and safe and inspired to be the best Herefordshire, to invest prudently our relationship with individuals, they can be. Our young people in the county and to continue families, communities and should be proud to grow up here to deliver the services that our partners over the next four years. in Herefordshire and we also residents need. This will continue Underpinning this plan are the want them to feel able to build to remain at the forefront of our themes of connectivity, wellbeing their lives here. This requires us thinking. and sustainability, which sit at the to deliver good learning facilities, core of our policy making, planning great job opportunities and homes Our ambition is for Herefordshire and design for the future. that young people can afford to to be an exemplar of 21st century buy or rent. We recognise that for rural living where market towns We know that in the future some children and young people and rural communities are transport systems must, and will, life can be particularly tough, and properly valued and recognised change, so we need to rethink we are determined to address for the contributions they make our investment now in transport the inequalities which put these to the success of the county. We infrastructure to tackle the 21st children and young people at a will achieve this by recognising century challenges of climate disadvantage. and building upon the strengths emergency and to support the of our people, our places and our wellbeing of our population. This We place arts and culture at past while embracing the future will be central to the review of the the centre of our plans for by taking proven concepts and Hereford bypass and southern Herefordshire. We do this to systems developed in modern link road schemes and the urgent recognise the value heritage cities and adapting them for rural update of our Core Strategy and and creativity bring through Herefordshire so that we create a planning policies. generating income from our county which is better connected fantastic exhibitions and events in every way. Being better connected is not just and by nurturing people’s overall about the physical infrastructure. wellbeing. There is growing Herefordshire is a great place to We all need a bit of help from time evidence of the social value that live with a beautiful and unique to time. During such tough times, cultural services provide in our natural environment - we will work we believe it is really important communities, particularly in in partnership with our farming that the council supports people combatting social isolation. and business community to protect and finds ways to help them to and enhance this wonderful asset connect to the rich tapestry We are committed to working for future generations while of services provided by the more closely in partnership ensuring that we balance this voluntary sector and to their with town and parish councils, sensitively with playing an active own community. The council will community partners, private part in the modern world. 5 Herefordshire Situated in the south west of the popular destination for visitors Unemployment in the county West Midlands region bordering and for those who commute to is low, but average earnings Wales, Herefordshire has employment out of the county. in the county are significantly beautiful unspoilt countryside below both the regional and with remote valleys and rivers Herefordshire has the fourth national averages. Average and a distinctive heritage. The lowest population density in house prices are high compared River Wye winds through the England, with a land area of with elsewhere in the region. In county, flowing east from the 2,180km² but a population of 2016, Herefordshire’s affordable Welsh border through Hereford only 192,100 (2018). Most of the housing ratio was the worst in the city before turning south to flow county (95%) is rural and 53% of West Midlands, with houses at the through the Wye Valley Area the population live in rural areas. lower end of the market, costing of Outstanding Natural Beauty around 8.6 times the annual wage (AONB). The Malvern Hills border While life expectancy for both of the lowest earners. the east of county, while the south males and females is higher and west is dominated by the western mortality rates are lower here Herefordshire is generally a low reaches of the Black Mountains. than the national average, there crime rate area and partners work are pockets of deprivation in together to ensure that it The Wye Valley is a designated the county. There are notable continues to be a safe place to live, Area of Outstanding Natural differences in life expectancy work and visit. Beauty and recognised as one and mortality in these areas, of the nation’s most treasured much of which is attributable to landscapes. Inside the Wye Valley lifestyle-related conditions such as AONB, the market town of Ross- circulatory or respiratory diseases on-Wye is steeped in culture and or cancers. history, and is regarded as being the birthplace of British tourism. Herefordshire is an When the Reverend William entrepreneurial county, with Gilpin visited 250 years ago, he 20% of the population being documented his trip with the UK’s self-employed. Defence and first ‘tourist guide’
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