Outcomes |
Leader’s focus |
We will… |
Southampton is a city with strong and sustainable economic growth
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Homes for all
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- Build at least 1000 council owned homes to rent in the next 5 years.
- Establish our own house-building factory.
- Explore subsidised bus pass provision and support for women denied fair access to their pensions by Government
- Building forward plans to regenerate large sections of our city centre creating 4000 homes, leisure and job opportunities
- Building a state-of-the-art Leisure and Health hub at Bitterne precinct
- Renew the HMO licence scheme in the cnetral wards and bring long-term empty homes back into use
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Children and young people in Southampton get a good start in life
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Aspiration
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- Help Care Leavers’ start into independent living by exempting them from Council Tax
- Continue to invest in council play parks starting with Mansel Park, Riverside Park and Veracity Ground
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People in Southampton live safe, healthy, independent lives
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Rebuilding communities
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- Complete the citywide programme of fitting sprinklers to all council high-rise blocks
- Launch our own council owned energy company (CitizEn) and reinvest profits into alleviating fuel poverty
- Tackle air pollution with a range of environmental measures
- Increase investment in advice services for those most impacted by the Government’s benefit changes
- Sign up to UNISON’s Ethical Care and Residential Care Charters
- Ensure Southampton remains a welcoming city to our many diverse communities and support the zero-tolerance approach to hate crime.
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Southampton is an attractive, modern city where people are proud to live and work
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Clean and green
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- Invest in an improved pothole repair service
- Increase spending on roads and pavement resurfacing
- Invest an extra £400,000 in street cleaning
- Press neighbouring councils to expand the County’s recycling facilities and allow a wider range of materials to be recycles
- Invest in Christmas lights in Shirley, Portswood and Woolston
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A modern sustainable council
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Southampton Pound
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- Increase the number of local apprenticeship opportunities in the council and with organisations where we have contracts
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