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Keighley Central Ward Plan 2022-2025

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Keighley Central Ward priorities
Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy
Decent Homes
Good Start, Great Schools
Better Health, Better Lives
Safe, Strong and Active Communities
A Sustainable District

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Keighley Central Ward priorities

Bradford District Priority Outcomes	Ward Priorities
Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy	Showcase Keighley as a place where people want to be, work and enjoy Support schemes and platforms which support business Support the Act Locally programme
Decent Homes	Ensure residents have the information needed or it is available to allow them to report and seek advice when needed Ensure commerce, industry and business act as good neighbours in neighbourhoods. Support the Act Locally programme
Good Start, Great Schools	Ensure School readiness and creative learning away from immediate school environment Develop the Youth Offer to meet the needs of neighbourhoods Support the Act Locally programme
Better Health, Better Lives	Support VCS/Community delivered health programmes on key conditions Promote and further programmes of building mental health resilience Support the Act Locally programme
Safe, Strong and Active Communities	Support successfully delivery of Keighley Together Initiative Celebrate diversity, heritage, culture and togetherness Support the Act Locally programme
A Sustainable District	Promote awareness of Environmental issues amongst residents, including ways to make a change Provide knowledge and training to environmental staff Support the Act Locally programme

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Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy

Actions	Outcomes	Progress
Support work of the Keighley Art and Film Festival and other creative bodies. Work alongside Uniformed services, PSPO officers, VCS and Business to develop response to ASB and street drinkers Ensure Local and Independent voices are involved in Keighley BID and Regeneration schemes Link Citizen Coin Project to Local organisations, business / education services to utilise Social CV	Improving attitudes towards town centre and what Keighley represents. Pride in Place Safer space for visitors to Town Centre BID awarded new term working to meet needs of all businesses Active engagement with scheme, residents' employability chances improved via robust recording of volunteer work and experience	Engagement data with events and workshops, community conversations and business conversations Police data, business conversations BID renewed, business conversations Uptake data from Citizen Coin Scheme, feedback from key partners.

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Decent Homes

Actions	Outcomes	Progress
Produce suitable information, of use to residents. Including housing standards and rental properties. Investigate potential of responsible landlord scheme Actively enforce issues related to noise, traffic and disturbance created by business within residential areas if engagement fails Ensure home improvement schemes reach residents including insulation, boiler replacement and other green initiatives	Tackling of poor housing standards in private rental market Better and safer standard of living Better housing standards	Amount of landlords signed up to scheme Reduction in complaints, resident feedback Resident feedback and Median energy efficiency data (England 66 KC band 55)

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Good Start, Great Schools

Actions	Outcomes	Progress
Continuation of Imagination Library and increase uptake Link community, VCS, Museum, Parks and Library series which provide suitable learning and educational sessions for children and parents. Work alongside youth service to develop suitable spaces and venues to meet changing needs of young people. Investigate potential and viability of new community learning facility within the green space at Cliffe Castle Ensure projects are in place to develop the youth voice, that it is heard and acted upon	Children at age appropriate levels entering education Greater uptake in sessions. Sessions meet the requirements of the community Greater uptake by young people, which meets the needs and requirements they have Communities, schools and youth to engage more with cultural opportunities in ward. Promote pride in Place Better decision making, youth actively involved in community life	Participation numbers Session data Session data, feedback from young people Subsequent facility use and feedback Young people engaged in committees, organisations and ability to communicate who they are

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Better Health, Better Lives

Actions	Outcomes	Progress
Develop with health officers support training packages for Community leaders to deliver ongoing health initiatives and discussions on diabetes and exercise Work alongside good food club to support the projects solution to food poverty Help encourage use of and updating of Treacle.me Promote collaboration of VCS and other health providers to work together and collaborate Investigate resources and funding opportunities for community organisations, which work alongside and or add additionally to NHS	Longer life expectancy, more healthy years Reduction in food bank use. Improved self esteem of users Greater connectivity to local services Greater Connectivity and sharing of knowledge / resources More robust / sustainable community organisations	Increase in life expectancy (KC 75) Membership numbers increased as a ratio to food bank use Increased number of site users Number of events Organisation funding levels increased

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Safe, Strong and Active Communities

Actions	Outcomes	Progress
Encourage discussions around LGBTQ+ and identity Work alongside community to run celebration festivals and promote greater understanding of diverse culture Continue People's Planter project to encourage neighbourly ownership of micro greenspaces within neighbourhoods Promote community participation and ownership of Keighley Together Further Develop and ensure delivery of Keighley Library pilot	Greater understanding of identity Greater acceptance and learning about diverse make up of neighbourhoods Increased community participation, increased pride in place, healthy active lives Reduction in SOC Enhanced connectivity, community ownership and use as a safe space	Event numbers. Community Conversations Number of events Number of planters under community ownership Police Data Library visitor data

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A Sustainable District

Actions	Outcomes	Progress
Seek bespoke toolkits and literature to inform residents of responsibilities, recycling, fly tipping and rubbish disposal from environmental task force Work with officers, communities and VCS to host informative workshops / events. Refresh internal training and methodology to improve environmental impact, invite external bodies to also benefit where appropriate Shape incoming biodiversity net gain requirements to improve the environmental and access to environment locally	Less residential fly tipping, more accurate and timely reporting of issues, greater recycling rates Greater understanding and engagement with environmental issues Council land, Parks and Greenspaces more biodiverse Better funded and managed environmental and green spaces	Reduction in instances of fly tipping Improved recycling rates Increased biodiversity Increased biodiversity