Edinburgh's Local Housing Strategy
Chapter Six - Develop vibrant, connected, safe and inclusive communities
This chapter covers regeneration and placemaking; greenspaces and nature; safe, connected and inclusive neighbourhoods; and engaged and empowered communities.
These are the proposed strategic objectives:
- Support communities to be vibrant, connected, safe and inclusive.
- Take all the local actions necessary to help end poverty.
Read the high-level actions we propose to take
- Develop an Estates Strategy.
- Develop a new Prevention Strategy against poverty and other harms.
- Develop the Community Safety and Antisocial Behaviour Strategy.
- Continue to investigate digitalisation of systems and customer access. Include trialling more proactive approaches to make housing communications more accessible for non-English speakers.
- Continue to maximise opportunities to improve greenspaces across the city in line with objectives around biodiversity, sustainability and community safety.
- Fully embed the Edinburgh Partnership Housing sub-group, as part of the Edinburgh Community Planning Partnership structure, to ensure a citywide community planning focus on the housing and homelessness issues facing the city.
- Roll out the new Tenant Participation Strategy and continue to build on tenant engagement.