Delivering a Future for Barking and Dagenham
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We’re involving more people than ever before in deciding the kind of place Barking and Dagenham should be.
The Barking and Dagenham Partnership brings together the Council, health services, police and fire service, working with local businesses, representatives of the voluntary and community sector and members of the local community. Together we aim to understand the needs of local people and find out what would make a difference to residents’ quality of life and agree a vision for the future.
The Community Plan sets out the future for Barking up to 2020 and how it will look and feel for people who live, work, study, visit and do business in the borough. We have named it Barking and Dagenham’s Community Plan, also known as the ‘Sustainable Community Strategy’.
The Community Plan sets out how we will work together to turn ambitions into reality. Our ambition for Barking and Dagenham is a borough which is safe, clean, fair and respectful, prosperous, healthy and where young people are inspired and successful. If we are to achieve this ambition, everybody must work together.
We have a lot to celebrate in Barking and Dagenham: a great sense of community, interesting heritage, improving links to central London, access to the open countryside and unprecedented urban regeneration. These all make Barking and Dagenham an exciting place to be.
The Partnership has already delivered real improvements that include the development of Children’s centres, introducing free swimming, ambitious and creative regeneration projects, and improving educational attainment.
Barking and Dagenham is constantly changing and we face challenges in the future, including significant levels of deprivation and a changing population.
The members of the Barking and Dagenham Partnership make many different contributions to the improvement of our borough. This Plan seeks to bring them together.
All of our local plans will link together to show how we are working towards making the vision of Barking and Dagenham a reality.