Please note this extract was taken from Glasgow Community Planning Partnership Community Plan 2005 - 2010

Our Primary Goal

We will create a transformed and vibrant Glasgow where people choose to live, where the River Clyde is brought back to life and where Glaswegians are fully involved in the life of the whole city.

Our Key Aims

• We will facilitate a full range of attractive and appropriate new housing provision thus ensuring we can retain our existing population and attract new people to live in the city
• We will ensure appropriate physical regeneration and environmental improvements to provide a safe, clean sustainable city including adequate provision of community facilities within local areas and a range of recreational, sporting, cultural activities based on the City's rich heritage and the needs of a diverse population
• We will maintain and improve transport links that are effective, efficient and affordable
• We will ensure Glasgow's place as a social city by providing opportunities for celebration, participation, fun and relaxation and encourage tourism by ensuring visitor attractions meet international standards, by improving signage, transport and transport information
• We will promote and celebrate diversity through special events as well as ensuring that all events are inclusive and representative

In order to achieve a vibrant City, we need citizens that are healthy, have opportunities to work and learn and who feel safe in their surroundings. As well as this though, we need to ensure our facilities and services are inclusive and equality proofed and that our citizens have the capacity to access the wealth of cultural, social and recreational opportunities available in the city.

Glasgow is an exciting and vibrant City that offers much to the resident and visitor alike.The neighbourhoods in which the City's homes are located include some of the most desirable of urban environments, but also some unacceptable pockets of decay and dereliction.The way in which the City has tackled its regeneration, both in the City centre and in its peripheral communities has attracted international acclaim.We must build on the regeneration efforts of the City partners and ensure that the delivery of quality, affordable housing, both for rent and to buy, continues.The contribution made by the removal and re-provisioning of the city's worst housing coupled with private sector housing investment will be significant.

Opportunities to treat and recycle that is currently unused alongside initiatives geared towards reclaiming the river will dominate the transformation of the city in thedecade ahead.

The environment, recycling initiatives and transport provision are all vital to the city's sustainable development. The magnificent range of museums, galleries, parks and sporting facilities not only inspire people who live and work across the City but also its many visitors. The vibrancy of the City is not restricted to infrastructure. The many cultural events that take place demonstrate the diversity of the City and the celebration of difference within its communities.When this is added to the diverse range of events, activities and festivals on offer each year, we begin to understand just how vibrant Glasgow really is.

Vibrancy is also about enabling participation and is at the heart of Community Planning in Glasgow. In many ways, the way in which communities interact and connect with each other underpins the vibrancy of Glasgow.

We also recognise the valuable contribution that voluntary and community organisations make to help support and engage our most disadvantaged citizens. Through our community engagement strategy, city and local structures, we will strive to achieve active citizenship and strengthen democracy. We recognise the important and complementary roles played by the private, public and voluntary sectors in creating a vibrant, balanced, dynamic and successful city. Other themes also underpin the vibrancy agenda, such as the role of the universities and further education colleges, the generation of a safe, healthy City and investment in employment.

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