Local Strategic Partnership
The concept of local strategic partnerships was introduced by
the Local Government Act in 2000. The local strategic partnership
for Ashford is known as the Ashford partnership, which was set
up in 2002 and includes the following key organisations from the
public, community, voluntary and private sector.
The role of the Ashford partnership is to:
- Co-ordinate and review partnership working and new patterns of
service delivery in Ashford borough;
- Identify and address gaps, avoid duplication of effort and
promote added value; and
- Prepare, monitor and review the sustainable community
strategy's 10 year Vision.
The Ashford Partnership has produced the Ashford Sustainable Community Strategy, a
ten-year plan which sets out a clear vision for how the borough
should develop, the key objectives the Partnership will seek to
achieve and provides a clear picture to the outside world of what
is important to the borough’s residents
The aim is to continue to transform the economic, social and
environmental profile of the borough so that local people can live
more happy and fulfilled lives.
The partnership meets approximately every two
months and is convened by a lead officer, Ian Bailey
(Assistant Head of Cultural Services – Ashford Borough
Council).
For further information about the Ashford partnership please
email Ian Bailey or
telephone 01233 330689.
Partnership Workshop
The Ashford Partnership hosted a half day workshop for key
partners and stakeholders on the 6 March 2008 at the Holiday Inn
Central in Ashford. The purpose of the day was to review the
previous Community Strategy vision and feed the objectives and
generate outputs into the new Sustainable Community Strategy for
Ashford. The event was well attended and the findings have
been analysed. The presentations and a discussion paper setting the
scene for the day can be viewed or downloaded below:
2nd Partnership Workshop 30th March 2009
A second Partnership workshop was held at the Holiday Inn
Ashford Central on the 30th March 2009 to consider how the
recession is affecting Ashford and what the Partners’ course of
action might be. View relevant documents to this event below:
This webpage was updated on
1/29/2010