Sustainable Community Strategy

Set out in the Community Strategy document agreed in 2004 is the first long term Strategy for the Epping Forest District drawn up jointly by all the key agencies working in the District. The Strategy addressed some important key challenges facing Epping Forest District, including the national requirement for significant housing growth in the area, and its potential impact on environment, and social facilities, and issues such as poor local transport provision.

The One Epping Forest Board has just agreed a major programme to draw up a new Sustainable Community Strategy to provide a long term vision for the development of the District, highlighting the key areas for action. This new strategy will also influence the 'core strategy' of the Local Development Framework.

All the statutory and non-statutory agencies in Epping Forest are committed to developing and implementing this new Strategy.

The Partnership will carry out extensive consultation with our residents and stakeholders to produce this plan. The Partnership will monitor the progress of its constituent agencies in achieving the new Strategy. The Strategy will cover several years, but we will also be publishing detailed objectives to meet the new goals it will contain. The responsibility for delivering the objectives will be clearly identified. This will enable the public to whom we are all accountable, and the agencies themselves to check how well the objectives are met.

The new Strategy, when agreed will aim to be a practical blueprint for the long-term development of the district and deliver real year on year improvements to the Community.

The Full Sustainable Community Strategy document is available here as a PDF file. Please note that this is a fairly large document, so please be patient while it is displayed. Thank you

Action Plan

Awaiting agreement of the new strategy to establish final Action Plans