Have Your Say!

This page will tell you a little bit about our plans for Waveney and our ambitions for the future provision of Council Services. And we want YOU to have your say!

There are two parts to the survey which we would like you to complete – one relating to the Community Strategy or ‘plan’ for the area involving key partners such as the Police and Suffolk County Council, and the other focusing specifically on OUR service to YOU. 

View the Draft Community Strategy 2006


Please return paper forms to any Waveney District Council office by no later than August 31st. You can use the local offices in Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, or Southwold, or alternatively the Town Hall on the High Street or the Clapham Road offices in the centre of Lowestoft.

Your views are vital to us. Please help us to help you!


So what exactly is the Community Strategy?

In 2002, the District Council co-ordinated the production of the first Community Strategy or plan for the area. The Strategy explains how we could work together more effectively to make a better life for the Community and helps public service bodies such as the Police, Primary Care Trust and Suffolk County Council as well as the business sector, voluntary organisations, community groups and individuals to work more closely together on the key things that go to make up ‘quality of life’. Using their experience and knowledge of the area, the partners pooled information about needs and aspirations, their activities and their plans for the future. Before arriving at a vision for the area, called the Community Strategy!

A fresh look

Over the last few years an organisation called the Local Strategic Partnership has been developing action plans and activities to reach that vision, however, much has changed since the production of the original Community Strategy. Therefore we need to check out that the vision still reflects the needs and aspirations of everyone who lives and works in Waveney and for this reason, the Local Strategic Partnership has committed to undertaking a series of consultation activities throughout 2006, to get YOUR views on how we can refresh this vision to meet our needs TODAY.

The District Council

Waveney District Council is a key player in the Local Strategic Partnership. Since the Community Strategy outlines the hopes and aspirations for the community, it’s important that the District Council’s priorities match these. For this reason, we would also like to ask you about the priorities that the Council should focus on

What have you said so far?

Based on the consultation we have done so far, we’ve put together a draft of the Community Strategy, which outlines a proposed new vision for the area. We have used some of the feedback you gave us in the ‘Local Development Framework’ consultation to identify our draft set of new priorities in the Community Strategy. These are listed below.

What’s next?

This is where you come in! Although we now have a sense of what your priorities look like, we will not be able to address them all at once, so we would like to ask you to rank them in order of importance to you. What’s the most important and what comes first?

Rank your priorities now using our online survey