Normanton & Featherstone AREA PLAN 2017

Ward 6 Ward 10 Featherstone Central Normanton Featherstone North West Newland with Woodhouse Moor Featherstone East Woodhouse Featherstone South Ward 6 Kirkthorpe, Heath Normanton Common Ward 10

Your Area Working For You Normanton & Featherstone include the following areas:

Your Local Councillors are: Ward 6 Featherstone Central, Featherstone North West, Graham Maureen Sharlston Isherwood Richard Taylor Tennant- King Featherstone East 01977 602172 01977 796188 07717 303068 and gisherwood@ dicktaylor@ mtennantking@ Featherstone .gov.uk wakefield.gov.uk wakefield.gov.uk South

Your Local Councillors are: Ward 10 Normanton Newland with Woodhouse Moor Woodhouse Elaine Blezard David Dagger Alan Wassell Warmfield cum 07824 320815 07901 990736 07760 182798 Heath eblezard@ ddagger@ alanwassell@ Kirkthorpe wakefield.gov.uk wakefield.gov.uk wakefield.gov.uk Heath Normanton Common

Introduction This Local Area Plan for the Normanton and Featherstone area outlines the priorities for the 40,840 people who live here. These priorities were identified following consultation with local residents, businesses, community groups, councillors and other partners including Police, Health, Fire and WDH. As well as these local priorities, over the next year we will be prioritising ‘good growth’ right across the Wakefield district. There are three key elements to good growth: growing good businesses, growing good jobs and growing resilient communities. During 2017 we will focus on these priorities, so that we can make Normanton and Featherstone better places to work, live, learn and visit.

What do we want to do? Priority 3 – Supporting our people to be healthy We want to support more people to be healthy Caring for our people and stay independent by: Priority 1 - Make our community safer • Encouraging people to become more active We intend to see anti-social behaviour decrease in through a range of healthy activities for the two Wards in 2017 by: all ages and all abilities • Offering help, support and information to • Working with community centres and local people who are affected by alcohol, domestic community groups to develop community violence and anti-social behaviour based provisions and day opportunities for • Working with local schools and clubs older people to reduce social isolation to educate young people about actions and consequences of anti-social behaviour • Work with local GP surgeries to promote social activities through their centres Priority 2 - Supporting people to be ready for work Caring for our places We want to increase the number of people in Priority 4 – Support our community to be employment by working with businesses, schools stronger and colleges to raise aspirations, higher level skills We want to see more people satisfied with their and more productive and profitable opportunities local area by: by: • Working with citizens to reduce dog fouling, • Promoting apprenticeship and higher level littering and fly tipping in our community and apprenticeship opportunities to young people increase the number of prosecutions in Normanton and Featherstone to increase • Allocating funding to local community groups the skills in the area delivering environmental projects and • Providing information and advice about community events volunteering opportunities for people to gain • Working with citizens and partners to address experience and skills for future employment the issues of local Brownfield sites • Linking education providers and community • Promoting active citizenship and volunteering groups to local businesses for career advice opportunities and guidance workshops • Supporting local community centres and • Working with local employers in the Wakefield groups to develop activities to support local district to increase opportunities for local people people to secure jobs closer to where they live • Supporting and developing micro social enterprises How youcangetinvolved How WDH OneCALL 03458507 507orwww.wdh.co.uk emergency orwww.westyorkshire.police.uk Police on 101non-emergencies999inan or www.wakefield.gov.uk Wakefield CouncilContact Centreon03458506or To contact uspleasecallorvisit: wakefield.gov.uk about your localarea pleasevisit: For more informationandimportantfactsfigures Warmfield mailto: [email protected] Sharlston mailto: [email protected] mailto:Featherstone [email protected] Normanton mailto: [email protected] contact: yourlocal about For information Town andParishCouncilplease www.wakefield.gov.uk/councillors important toyou. at: Detailsoftheirsurgeriescanbefound You are issuesthat canspeaktoyourlocalcouncillorsabout Councillor Surgeries https://www.nova-wd.org.uk/ freehelp,Why notsignupfor support, andadvice information Are you alocalcommunitygroup orvoluntary organisation? www.connecttosupport.org/wakefield andactivitiestogetinvolvedin local groups careandsupportinyourlocalarea,Find outabout discover Stay active andindependent housing/community/community-meetings http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/residents/community-and- taking placethroughouttheyear, at: detailscanbefound Come alongtoyourlocalcommunitymeetingsandevents Community meetingsandevents Email: [email protected] your commentsquestionsandqueries -getinvolvedinyourcommunity,Join inourconversation share

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