In Walker we’re developing the first-ever Neighbourhood Charter for our Ward.
A Neighbourhood Charter is an agreement between you, the community, and us with our partners such as the police and health service at a local level. A charter can be for any part of the city but in this case it’s for Parklands and its neighbourhoods.
The purpose of a charter is to help us give you the services you want at a local level to improve your quality of life. This includes giving you a bigger say over health, housing, employment, education, policing and local facilities.
Charters are designed to give more local people a say in the decisions that affect their day-to-day life. They can be helpful in understanding problems, identifying what’s most important for action, and measuring how well we are doing in making changes.
We hope the charter will contain the things that are important for local people to make the area a better place for everyone. We can then identify what the Council and their partners need to do to make things better. It will also help in providing information about what we can do to help ourselves to improve local conditions.