Summary of Priorities and themes

1. Environment – Place
Improve Horfield Common – including improving the surfacing in the Children’s Play Ground opposite the Leisure Centre
Improve Gainsborough Square – Landscape and shop frontage improvements
Improve Stoke Park – programme of events, deliver the management plan
Improve Monks Park – set up a Friends of Group
Improve Muller Road Recreation Ground - set up a Friends of Group
Plant wildflower meadows
Increase the number of trees planted across the NP – street trees and target around Romney Avenue (s106)
Improve Filton Road shopping area
Air Quality – support new group to raise awareness and change culture
Improving the quality of the street scene environment – tackle hotspots for dog fouling and litter
2. Traffic and transport – Keep Bristol Moving
Deliver final year of the 3 year programme for Local Traffic Schemes – decided using Traffic Choices Tracker this year it is Romney Avenue, decide next 3 years
Improve sustainable travel in the Neighbourhood Partnership – develop a Cycling & Walking Plan, improve bus services, lobby for train station in NP
Reduce parking issues – Southmead Hospital & Bishopthorpe Road
Reduce speeding
3. Crime and Community Safety – Place – Building successful places
Tackle Anti-Social Behaviour – tackle hotspots - Maskelyne Avenue, Dorian Road Playing Field
Increase reporting of Domestic Abuse and reduce incidents
4. Housing, Planning and major projects – Place – Building successful places
Influence new developments across the Neighbourhood Partnership – support production of the LVNDP and set up a Planning Forum to cover the rest of the area
5. Families, younger & older people - Vibrant Bristol
Improve facilities and activities for Young People
Increase the voice and influence of Young People in the NP
Improve the activity of older people in the area
6. Employment, training and economic development – Bristol working and learning and Building successful places
Support residents to gain sustainable employment and manage their own finances
Support new and existing businesses
7. Community buildings and facilities – Building successful places
Support Manor Farm Community Hub to meet their aim of developing a community facility
Support the re-development of the old Eastville Library building as a community facility
8. Equalities, community cohesion and active citizenship – Vibrant Bristol
Develop the working groups, Forums and the Neighbourhood Partnership
Reduce inequality
Improve Community cohesion
Develop the community in Lockleaze
9. Health and Wellbeing
Improve access to healthy food
Increase participation in sport and active recreation
Reduce emergency emissions of under 5s in Lockleaze
Tackle childhood obesity in Lockleaze
Improve mental health in Lockleaze
Reduce strokes in Lockleaze
Reduce cancer in Lockleaze

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Horfield and Lockleaze Neighbourhood Partnership Plan 2015/16 to 2017/18