Legislation requires all District Councils, including Eastleigh Borough Council, to establish a "Local Strategic Partnership" (LSP) that is responsible for developing a Community Plan (now officially known as a "Sustainable Community Strategy") for its local area.  As a result, the Eastleigh Strategic Partnership (ESP) was formed in April 2003.

 

Bringing together the main public, private and voluntary sector organisations that provide services to the Borough's residents, the ESP published its first Community Plan in June 2004.  This plan was updated in October 2009, after a fairly extensive review process.  Through the process of developing and implementing the Plan, the intention is that the organisations in the ESP will work more closely together to make best use of their resources and maximise the benefits to those who live in the Borough.

 

 

 

However, the membership is much wider than this, and other organisations will join the Partnership's meetings depending on the topics being discussed. In this way we keep the bureaucratic burden on smaller organisations and voluntary organisations to a minimum.

 

The members of the ESP have developed a Community Plan for Eastleigh which sets out a long-term vision for the Borough's future development, along with a set of shorter-term actions that members of the Partnership have agreed to undertake in pursuit of this vision.

 

Along with the Community Plan, this website also provides access to the following information on the ESP and the community it seeks to serve: