Pledge 7 - Enhancing life in Salford
Community Health and Social Care
- Continued to manage and commission public art projects that enhance the environment and the public realm as well as involving communities in their creation.
Environment
- Provision of parks and open spaces that are suitable for residents’ needs.
- Improved the local environmental quality of the city via through regular refuse collection and street cleaning, reduced incidents of environmental crime, enhanced quality of air, urban and country parks and greater accessibility to open green space.
- Introduction of a new environmentally efficient council vehicle fleet also utilising bio diesel fuel.
- Effective regulation of business and provision of consumer confidence.
Housing and Planning
- Reduction in tripping claims through appropriate investment in the highway network.
- Continued reduction in road accident casualties.
- Road safety training and education delivered in schools.
- Major funding procured for affordable warmth schemes.
- Implementation of stock options – city confirmed on PFI and HMR stock transfer programme and approval for development of new ALMO.
Chief Executives
- The Big Listening project has continued, delivering consultation with residents and enabling the tracking of perceptions.
- Secured £38m of further Housing Market Renewal Programme funding and developed Implementation Plans for 4 areas of major investment.
- 185 private houses improved under block improvements and 235 Council houses benefiting from environmental improvements in the New Deal area.
Customer and Support Services
- Fully integrated interactive mapping facilities launched on the Salford website to improve access to community information, highway plans and planning notifications.
This page was last updated on 01 June 2007
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