PLACES IN NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE JUNE 2010 Places in leicestershire 2009 For more information, please contact: Alex Lea research Manager community Planning Branch leicestershire county council county hall, Glenfield leicester le3 8rB tel: 0116 305 6803 email: [email protected] Nicole Rickard team leader, Policy and Partnerships community Planning Branch leicestershire county council county hall, Glenfield leicester le3 8rB tel: 0116 305 6977 email: [email protected] Produced by leicestershire county council and north West leicestershire local strategic Partnership June 2010 isBn: 978-085022-476-4 Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained within this report, neither leicestershire county council or north West leicestershire local strategic Partnership can be held responsible for any errors or omission relating to the data contained within the report. Designed and printed by leicestershire county council. 2 NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE community Forums are a new method of making sure the services received INTROdUCTION meet local needs. community Forum membership includes Parish, District the map on page 6 shows north West leicestershire District, including the and county councillors, local voluntary sector representatives, local service main towns and the key rural service centres. providers such as the leicestershire constabulary and the leicester, this report is to identify and highlight the priorities for individual places leicestershire and rutland nhs and members of the public. in leicestershire including north West leicestershire District, based on community Forums are held 2-4 times per year and provide opportunity for relevant and available data sources and information. the original “Places in residents to raise questions and feedback about the services they receive leicestershire” report which was included within the 2008 leicestershire and highlight any changes coming up that may affect the local forum area. sustainable community strategy enabled identification of place based priority outcomes for the leicestershire sustainable community strategy PArticipatory BudgEtINg and local area agreement. this report and update of the Places in leicestershire together has made available £20,000 for each community leicestershire report is to refine these priorities using relevant and timely Forum throughout the county, to be spent on local projects and schemes. information for adoption by district authorities including local strategic each community Forum will be given the opportunity to influence how Partnerships (lsPs). this money is spent through a Participatory Budgeting Workshop, where CommuNIty ForumS local ideas will be shared and evaluated. the ideas will then be voted on and prioritised before being checked by leicestershire county council for the seven reports covering leicestershire are divided into chapters feasibility, costs & benefits, alternative ways of delivery, availability of other structured around the key places in each District, arranged by the funding sources etc. the final decision will then be made by the local 27 community Forums used around the county to engage with local strategic Partnership. communities. For more information, please visit: the map on page 7 shows the location of the 27 community Forums http://www.leicestershireforums.org/your-voice-your-choice.html in leicestershire. there are three community Forums in north West leicestershire District: ashby coalville Valley 3 Places in leicestershire 2009 tyPES oF Places a list of each type of settlement in north West leicestershire District is shown below: the key places are divided into: Main Towns Main Towns coalville these 17 settlements are identified in the local area agreement as key large service centres which provide health services, employment, ashby education, leisure and shopping facilities for the surrounding population Priority Neighborhoods Priority Neighbourhoods ashby identified in the local area agreement 2006-09, these 19 neighbourhoods castle Donington are small areas of the county with bigger than average problems, usually in relation to a number of aspects of deprivation (see indices of Multiple coalville, thringstone and Whitwick Deprivation below) Greenhill Rural/ Service Centres ibstock these are smaller service centres, identified through the leicestershire Measham rural Partnership (lrP), rural strategy (rs) and the local Development Moira and albert Village Framework (lDF) that provide a range of facilities for the surrounding rural villages and hamlets. they vary in size, but they are all a focal point for a Rural Centres cluster of smaller settlements. castle Donington rurAL ArEAS ibstock this section of each chapter covers the rural parts of each Forum area and Kegworth identifies the priorities, based on access to services (access to services report) or specific needs identified through a Parish Plan (see below). Measham 4 NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE Rural Communities Completing Parish Plans ashby Woulds (2008) castle Donington (2008) coleorton* (2008) ellistown and Battleflat (2009) heather (2005) long Whatton and Diseworth (2008) Measham (2005) Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe and acresford (2008) ravenstone with snibston (2008) *this was completed without lrP support Rural Communities Starting Parish Plan Process Kegworth (date) Osgathorpe (date) 5 Places in leicestershire 2009 Map 1: North wESt LEICEStErShIrE 6 NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE Map 2: LEICEStErShIrE CommuNIty ForumS ANd North wESt LEICEStErShIrE (hIghLIghtEd) 7 Places in leicestershire 2009 INfORMaTION SOURCES ten most deprived lsOas in leicestershire: iMD 2007 County IMD National a range of information sources have been used to develop these sections, a LSOA Code LSOA Name District short description of each is below: Rank Score Rank loughborough 1 e01025699 charnwood 50.98 2119 INdICES oF muLtIPLE dEPrIvAtIoN 2007 Bell Foundry Greenhill north north West the indices of Multiple Deprivation (iMD) are produced by the Department 2 e01025934 43.87 3625 for communities and local Government (formerly ODPM) with the aim of east leics measuring deprivation in a consistent way across england and to provide loughborough 3 e01025725 charnwood 43.32 3769 policy makers with a strategic tool to underpin policy development. Warwick Way north West the indices were first produced in 2000, with updates in 2004 and 4 e01025932 Greenhill centre 41.81 4183 leics 2007. While the original Places in leicestershire reports made reference loughborough to the iMD 2004 the revised Places in leicestershire reports update 5 e01025700 charnwood 37.34 5450 this information to cover the iMD 2007. the results of the iMD 2005 canal south loughborough and 2007 are directly comparable in terms of the methodology and data 6 e01025701 charnwood 33.61 6758 sources used. central station loughborough 7 e01025717 charnwood 33.61 6761 the indices include domains measures relating to: Woodthorpe income Deprivation (including two sub-domains measuring income north West 8 e01025949 Measham centre 32.82 7051 deprivation affecting children and older people) leics hinckley trinity hinckley & employment Deprivation 9 e01025866 32.03 7368 West Bosworth health Deprivation and Disability hinckley & 10 e01025844 earl shilton east 29.37 8464 education, skills and training Deprivation Bosworth Barriers to housing and services living environment Deprivation crime these seven domains are then combined to create an overall measure of deprivation. When aggregated, leicestershire is ranked 138th out of the 149 county/unitary authorities in england in 2007 (where 149 = least deprived). north West leicestershire District is ranked 219th out of 354 local authorities in england. 8 NORTH WEST LEICESTERSHIRE ten most deprived lsOas in north West leicestershire: iMD 2007 Deprivation Change Report County IMD National in addition, the research team at leicestershire county council produced LSOA Code LSOA Name District Rank Score Rank a report which specifically looked at Deprivation change report in priority Greenhill north north West neighbourhoods between the 2004 and 2007 iMD. reference to this report 2 e01025934 43.87 3625 east leics is included under each priority neighbourhood section. north West 4 e01025932 Greenhill centre 41.81 4183 Lower Level Super Output Areas leics lower level super Output area (lsOa) lower level is a national geography north West 8 e01025949 Measham centre 32.82 7051 leics created by the Office for national statistics. these areas are created by combining a number of Output areas (created for the 2001 census). lower norris hill, ashby north West 14 e01025950 Woulds & albert 27.20 9469 super Output areas are areas of broadly consistent population size across leics Village the country, containing 1,500 people on average. they are often referred to in the text as lsOas. names have been given to each lsOa, and are listed north West 16 e01025930 coalville centre 26.29 9914 leics in the appendix. north West For more information please visit: 24 e01025962 thringstone east 24.66 10799 leics http://www.lsr-online.org/reports/leicestershire_and_rutland_lower_super_output_ area_names north West 25 e01025943 ibstock centre 24.12 11119 leics Town and Village Centres Survey coalville Belvoir north West 26 e01025931 23.85 11280 road leics this work was carried out by BMG research on behalf of leicestershire county council and leicester shire economic Partnership in 2008. the north West 34 e01025957 snibston east 22.47