Your City, Your Neighbourhood, Your Say - RESULTS!!!
The Results
We are sure you are interested in seeing the results of the events and you can download them either Citywide or by individual neighbourhood:
Alt Valley (.xls 41.5KB)
Liverpool East (.xls. 42KB)
However we wanted to highlight to you some key messages we gathered from these events:
• 83% of you agree that we should aim to be a World Class City
• To make us World Class your top 3 priorities are:
- Local decision making/safer, cleaner, greener agenda
- Competitiveness
- Make Liverpool a place where businesses want to spend money
• Your top 3 priorities for Health are:
- Lifestyle
- Care for elderly
- Well being
• Your top 3 priorities for Children and Young People are:
- NEETs (Those not in education, employment or training)
- Youth Offending/Youth work
• Your top 3 priorities for Safer neighbourhoods are:
- Anti Social Behaviour
- Make me feel safer
- Community relations
• Your top 3 priorities for Crime are:
-Drug/substance misuse
-Violence
-Prolific and persistent offenders
• Your top 3 priorities for the Environment are:
- Cleanliness
- Housing management
- Parks
• Your top 3 priorities for Economic Development are:
-Provide training so people can get a job
-Support the unemployed to get a job
- Create more jobs
Where next?
The information you have provided is extremely valuable to us and we have been busy since the events analysing and using it in the development of the Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS), Local Area Agreement (LAA) the Local Development Framework (LDF), and long term city vision to 2024.
Your priorities below have helped underpin the 5 drivers in the vision:
Driver 1: Competitiveness
• Training opportunities/ support the unemployed to get a job,
• Convince more companies to come to Liverpool/create more jobs.
Driver 2: A Distinctive Sense of Place
• Improve cleanliness of the area,
• Improve housing management,
• Improve public parks and play areas.
Driver 3: Connectivity
• Improve bus and trains, accessibility, cleanliness, security, affordability
Driver 4: Thriving Neighbourhoods
• Improve local decision making,
• Safer, cleaner and greener neighbourhoods’
• Reduce anti-social behaviour
Driver 5: Health, well being and a just society
• More support in tackling harm from lifestyle issues (alcohol, smoking food and fitness)
Feedback
The ‘Your City, Your Neighbourhood, Your Say’ events have been very well received by the overwhelming majority of participants. They have developed a model of good practice for the future, which can be improved upon and used as required.
41% of participants regarded either ‘the opportunity to have your say’ or the whole event as the best part of the events. Those wishing to attend a further event ranged from 73% in South Central to 97% in Liverpool East. An average of 85% of attendees citywide said they will attend another event.
We marketed the events in a variety of ways:
• Website/Email,
• Liverpool Echo, Merseymart,
• Radio Merseyside, Kensington FM
• Door to door leafleting using the ‘Streets Ahead’ service
• Information stands within supermarkets.
We were surprised however to note that only 8% of attendees heard about the event through local press or radio and 47% would prefer to receive further information via email or website. We will consider this in future marketing.
Venues – The venues were all accessible and centrally located within the neighbourhood management area. 3 of the venues were schools and we received good support from them. The two other venues were purpose built conference centres better equipped to deal with large number of people.
Free transport was provided to those who had difficulty with mobility.
We were very pleased with the attendance figures. 440 people took part in total, 270 of whom voted, a breakdown by neighbourhood management area is shown below.
In addition to this, 251 completed written questionnaires and 86 completed on-line questionnaires via the Liverpool First website.
Summary of the opinions of the respondents to the questionnaires
