Cultural well-being strategies and policies

This Youth Strategy document signals the beginning of another phase in terms of the Council's commitment to young people. It is an attempt to carve out some strategic direction for the implementation of the Youth Policy. It holds the potential for some advances to be made in relation to young people and the Council's Youth Policy.

The Strategy is the guiding document for the City Council's cycling policies and programmes, and provides a common direction to improve co-ordination between the City Council and other organisations or groups involved with cycling. This Strategy provides the mechanisms to improve the cycle network throughout the city, increase the safety of cyclists and raise levels of enjoyment.

The Event Strategy has been prepared to guide the growth, development and management of Christchurch events over the next 10 years (2007-2017)

Cityscope is Hamilton's city design strategy, created to ensure we work together to make Hamilton everything it can be and more.  There is a very real sense that Hamilton has come of age and as we move forward we need to take a more strategic and less ad hoc approach to our city design and development. 

Under the Local Government Act 2002, Council is required to put together a Long Term Plan every three years. The Long Term Plan sets out our priorities in the medium to longer term.

Its main goal is for "active and healthy communities in Clutha through more people being more active, more often, life long". Its main objective is for "an average 1% annual increase in the level of physical activity in the Clutha population".

District Directions - What people have been saying is important.

Community development covers many aspects of human activity, including community safety, education and youth issues, elderly concerns, health matters, recreation and lifestyle opportunities, employment and even economic development and tourism promotion - anything in fact that may influence the social, cultural, economic and environmental well-being of communities. 

Provisions in the 2002 Local Government Act (LGA) for community outcomes and community outcome processes are indicative of an expressed desire by the New Zealand legislature to empower communities as partners in the governance process.

To maintain and improve the lifestyle we have in Southland, residents have identified, through the ‘Our Way Southland' project, the following as the outcomes they want for themselves, their families and their communities. The ‘Our Way Southland' report not only describes the seven community outcomes identified by Southlanders, it identifies the layers of intermediate outcomes and outputs that support them.