What are Community Area Partnerships?
Our 12 community area partnerships bring local organisations and people together. Their role is to tackle the issues that matter to local communities.
They involve Cornwall Councillors and town and parish councils in each area. They also involve other organisations that work in our communities. These include the Police, health services and voluntary and community sector.
The partnerships act as a voice for their communities. They take action on community priorities and seek to engage the public in their work. They also support communities to take action to help each other.
A summary of their specific roles is:
- Partnership Focus. To help organisations work together in communities and get things done.
- To champion the work of local Town and Parish Councils
- Community Area Partnership Action Plans. To work with communities to agree the top priorities in their area. To agree an action plan to progress these priorities and keep communities up to date.
- Climate emergency. Environmental issues are prominent in the action plans. Cornwall Council has declared a climate emergency. The Council and its partners are working to Cornwall becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
- Good Growth Programme. To make recommendations on funding applications to two Good Growth programmes. One programme is the Community Levelling Up Programme. This aims to help communities develop their place-shaping ambitions. The other programme is the Community Capacity Fund. This helps communities develop project plans. With a good project plan, communities are then in a better position to apply for delivery funds.
- Community Highways Improvement Programme. This initiative delivers local highway improvements aligned with Local Transport Plan objectives. Each CAP area has a share of the programme budget. CAP partners submit scheme proposals. The Cornwall Councillors in each area decide which scheme go forward. Over 800 schemes have now been delivered in local communities.
- Local service delivery, plans and spending. The partnerships can look at issues relating to service delivery in their areas. They can raise comments, concerns and questions about these issues. The Council and its partners can then take these views into account.
- Cornwall Council budget. The Council carries out a public consultation on its budget each year. It engages the partnerships during this consultation.
- Local service changes. Partnerships can comment on important service changes affecting their area.
- Cornwall Local Plan. This is Cornwall Council's planning policy framework. A review of the plan takes place every five years. When it reviews the plan, the Council will consult the Partnerships. A review of the plan is currently underway.