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Our vision for Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire has the potential to lead the way in sustainable growth and wellbeing. To achieve this, we must protect the county’s distinct rural and urban character while responding to today’s environmental challenges.
Our Vision for 2050 offers a practical, positive alternative to Gloucestershire County Council’s 2050 Vision. It sets out how the county can grow sustainably, support strong communities and safeguard the natural environment.
Rooted in the three pillars of sustainable development; a thriving economy, healthy communities and a flourishing environment, our Vision provides a step‑by‑step path to a greener, more resilient Gloucestershire.
It also directly addresses the urgent need to tackle climate change, reduce resource use and support more sustainable living across the county.
Six key challenges for Gloucestershire
Our vision identifies six key challenges for Gloucestershire:
- Growing the local economy, and with it additional employment opportunities, particularly in those sectors where Gloucestershire is strong. The aim should be steady growth in the economy and in productivity with more businesses starting up which can be sustained without putting the county’s environment at risk.
- Addressing fully the acute demand for more affordable and social housing both in our urban and rural areas to support economic growth by ensuring an adequate supply and range of housing types in sustainable locations.
- Providing appropriate training and skills development; and encouraging research and innovation.
- Ensuring that our communities, both urban and rural, are attractive and vibrant places to live and work where people are proud of their area and enjoy a high quality of life and well-being.
- Recognising the importance of Gloucestershire as one of the nation’s key food growing areas, and the need to retain and if possible enhance that capability, while at the same time maintaining and enhancing landscape and biodiversity.
- Achieving all of the above while meeting global imperatives to address climate change including moving to a low carbon economy, reducing resource use and generally moving towards more sustainable lifestyles.
Gloucestershire County Council's 2050 Vision
Gloucestershire County Council's vision came from a consultation they ran from 1st February 2018 to 31st July 2018 which received approximately 2,500 responses.
From this, they presented their Gloucestershire 2050 Vision which includes six big ideas - six major projects for the county.
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