The sustainable community strategy for North Yorkshire 2008/18 was developed through the North Yorkshire strategic partnership and sets out the North Yorkshire strategic partnership's ten-year vision for how to make North Yorkshire an even better place in which to live, work and visit.

Published in July 2008, the sustainable community strategy focuses on ten key priorities for achieving the partnership's ten-year vision. These are:

• access to services and public transport
• affordable housing
• alcohol
• children and young people
• community cohesion
• community safety
• economy and enterprise
• environment
• health and wellbeing
• older people.

The high-level aims of the strategy will be delivered in the medium-term through the specific targets of the local area agreement 2008/11.

A copy of the sustainable community strategy is available to download from the North Yorkshire strategic partnership website.

Each of the seven districts in North Yorkshire has a local strategic partnership, responsible for leading on community planning and for the development of their own sustainable community strategies. For further information on each of these and to download a copy, please follow the links to the North Yorkshire strategic partnership website below.

North Yorkshire strategic partnership (NYSP)
The North Yorkshire strategic partnership brings together the principal public sector agencies - including North Yorkshire County Council - responsible for promoting the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of communities in the County, together with the voluntary sector and business community and each of the district level strategic partnerships.

More information is available on the Partnerships page.