Launched after our massive Autumn 2002 'New Dawn' consultation, the Hastings and St Leonards Community Strategy 2003-2013 has now been published. It is about bringing us all together to make the town's community spirit, culture, young population and natural environment the foundations of a safer, healthier and more prosperous place for everybody. These are extracts from the strategy's profiles of Hastings and St Leonards residents in which they talk candidly about their hopes and aspirations over the next 10 years. Although we'll use statistics to monitor the progress of the strategy we're also going to regularly revisit these people to see if it's helping to change their lives for the better ....
top left to right: Tania | Pablo | Phil | Valerie | Ian
bottom left to right: Elizabeth and Carol | Graham and Theresa | Pragna and Rama
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"My vision for the town is a place people will be proud to live in. I want to live in a town with a positive feel and a great sense of community spirit. It goes without saying I want crime reduced, the environment improved and a greater wealth, health and happiness for everyone in the town."
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"Over the next 5 - 10 years there will be much activity and we will come under many a microscope. Hopefully this will reveal not only the problem areas of the town, but some radical ideas to also tackle these issues.
Hastings and St Leonards may well be the seaside Mecca of old again."
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"I just hope that many young people of today can grow up in Hastings, be proud to be a part of what Hastings is and what it will be like in ten years time, which would bring a totally different feel to it and make it a better place."
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"Make people feel good about themselves. Make them feel they have a part to play. Bring them in out of the cold. Give every one a feel good factor by personally inviting each individual to feel special."
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"If Hastings reaches for the stars, the journey at least will be in the right direction and will surely bring many worthwhile and exciting achievements on the way!"
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"We want to see more funding and publicity available for the management of our valuable and beautiful green spaces, improvement to public transport to visit these areas and more 'bobbies on the beat'."
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"In 10 years' time we'd like Hastings and St Leonards to have a good reputation and be a place where people want to come and live. We'd like to see all relevant organisations working together to best meet the needs of the town's residents."
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"To us the town is like an uncut diamond that's underrated but once cut and polished by a master craftsman will outshine all other towns on the South Coast of England."
To order a copy of the strategy in which the full versions of these profiles appear, call 0800 328 8093 or view them online at www.hastings.gov.uk/community_strategy
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This page last updated: 02/10/2003