You said, we did

Date: 28 February - 21 April 2022

We asked

The three local Health and Wellbeing Boards are asking people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland for their views on pharmacy services and usage.

The survey will help the NHS to plan for the future and ensure that local pharmacies offer high quality and accessible services. We are also interested in your views on how pharmacy services can be improved. 

What you tell us will inform the three Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments (PNAs) for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Every three years, pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs) are carried out around the country to ensure that local community pharmacies –“chemist shops” - are meeting the pharmaceutical needs of local people. There will be a formal consultation in summer 2022.

What happens next

The responses to the survey will inform the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, helping to ensure that local pharmacies are able to provide the services that local people need.

We will be formally consulting on the PNA this summer, which will be announced via our social media and Current engagement page.

Date: 31 January 2022 - 25 April 2022

We asked

The strategy examines what happens to your recycling and waste and how this can help reduce climate change and save raw materials.

The way we view ‘waste’ has changed. It is no longer something to just get rid of, but is potentially a valuable resource to be retained and reused or better still avoided altogether. Using the resources from waste can help to reduce the raw materials we need for producing new goods, which in turn has environmental, social and financial benefits.

The strategy has 11 pledges that sit alongside the government’s proposed national changes to waste collections in order to meet the 65% national recycling target by 2035.

The draft pledges include:

• supporting and encouraging waste prevention
• delivering reuse services
• separate food waste collections
• reducing waste sent to landfill to less than 5% by 2025

Each pledge is explained further in the full strategy and summary documents:

Summary of Draft Resources and Waste Strategy 2022-2050    PDF,  298 kbOpens new window

Draft Resources and Waste Strategy 2022-2050    PDF,  1.4 mbOpens new window

Options Appraisal    PDF,  3.4 mbOpens new window

Environmental Report    PDF,  3.3 mbOpens new window

What happens next

We will report the results back to the Leicestershire Waste Partnership and each council will feed back through their own decision-making processes over the summer and autumn 2022.

Date: 1 November 2021 – 18 February 2022

We asked

The council consulted a wide range of stakeholders including council officers and elected members, citizens, community groups and partners to identify the extent to which there was agreement with its long-term vision for Leicestershire and its priorities for 2022-26. The consultation included a public survey, interactive presentations including live polls and direct engagement through meetings and focus groups.

You said

The public survey received 259 responses, and further direct engagement with council officers through an interactive presentation led to further 200 responses. There were also many more responses received from stakeholders through direct meetings and focus group sessions. There was a high level of support for the council’s vision (79% of public survey respondents agreed with the outcomes and only 10% disagreed). The outcome with the least, albeit still substantial, support was the ‘Strong Economy, Transport and Infrastructure’ outcome (68% survey respondents agreed and 17% disagreed). The reasons for this are set out in Appendix A. 

There was a suggestion to reduce the length of the document and to add further clarification around what the council is specifically aiming to achieve over the next four years. 

Some suggested that the Plan should more clearly differentiate between those aspirations for which the council would have the lead responsibility, and those where it would have a contributing/partnership role; specifying which partners it would work with to deliver the actions in the Plan.   

Some highlighted concerns that the ‘Clean and Green’ outcome, which reflects the council’s aspirations to protect the environment and tackle climate change, may not be entirely compatible with the ‘Strong Economy, Transport and Infrastructure’ outcome, which sets out its vision to have a productive, inclusive and sustainable economy and infrastructure which meets the demands of a growing population and economy. This appeared to be primarily due to concerns that there would be housebuilding in greenfield areas. 

We did

There were several key findings from the consultation which are outlined in further detail in Appendix A. Key changes made to the Plan in response include:

• The length of the Plan has been reduced by removing unnecessary text (wordcount reduced by 25%) and images have been added to enhance the visual appeal of the document.
• To help clarify what the council is aiming to achieve by 2026, each sub-outcome now includes, under ‘how we will measure success’, the performance indicators which will be monitored to identify if each aim is being achieved. Each sub-outcome also includes a summary of current performance which provides a benchmark against which to measure future progress. 
• The Plan also now refers to specific partners which the council will need to work with to deliver certain actions. Additionally, the Plan highlights examples of effective collaboration which the Council intends to build on, such as work with district councils during the Covid-19 pandemic to establish community hubs to support the most vulnerable people.
• The sub-outcome around housing has been removed, with the council’s actions to support housing development shown instead to support the sub-outcome around infrastructure (7.2).
• The Introduction/Foreword now acknowledges the challenges involved in supporting economic growth whilst achieving a ‘Clean and Green’ future for Leicestershire and highlights how the council intends to achieve this. Additionally, further actions have been added to the Plan to show how the council intends to work with partners to enable and promote sustainable transport and encourage and support environmentally-friendly businesses and the development and adoption of low-carbon technologies.

View the full Cabinet papers for the Strategic Plan.
 

Date: 1 November 2021 – 18 February 2022

Whilst the official survey is now closed, you can still get in touch with us to give your views and help with the development of the Council's Approach.

We asked

Our communities make living and working in Leicestershire special. They are vital to supporting our health and wellbeing and provide many of the opportunities for people to contribute and support others. The Covid-19 pandemic showed how powerful community action can be and how much can be achieved by the skills, strengths and resources of communities.

The county council is committed to collaborating with, and working alongside, Leicestershire Communities and this commitment is central to our Communities Approach which sets out our proposed way of working with communities over the coming years.

The key principles of this Approach are:

• Prevention - how the whole council works towards providing preventative and self-help support
• Engagement - building trusting relationships to collaboratively define and design local solutions
• Catalysts - supporting voluntary organisations and town and parish councils to provide local services and activities

Supporting documents

Draft Communities Approach 2022-2026    PDF,  3.3 mbOpens new window

Communities Approach 2022-2026 - easy read    PDF,  3.7 mbOpens new window

If you need help reading the document, or still want to give your views, please email communities@leics.gov.uk or call 0116 305 7743.

What happens next

You will be able to find out about the feedback the council received and read the Cabinet Report and final document. They will be available on this page in Spring 2022.

Date: 20 January - 20 February 2022 (Engagement 1)

• Map based forum engagement on draft cycling and walking networks for the Loughborough area and south of Leicester area

Date: TBC 2022 (Engagement 2)

• Engagement on Draft Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs)

We asked

In 2021, following the adoption of our:

Cycling and Walking Strategy    PDF,  3.1 mbOpens new window

Action Plan    PDF,  471 kbOpens new window

we are now in the process of developing Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans for county towns and the urban areas surrounding Leicester City. The Loughborough area and south of Leicester area are our current areas of focus.

During the first engagement, we asked for feedback on the draft key cycling and walking networks for the Loughborough area and south of Leicester area through a map based forum. 

We invited feedback on:

• The draft key cycling and walking network, eg. were there key routes missing that lots of people currently use, or could use if improved, or did you feel a change to a route was needed.
• Comments on types of infrastructure improvements you would like to see on the cycling and walking network – eg. dedicated cycle lanes, junction improvements, benches etc.
• Other feedback you thought would be of value in developing the Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans for these areas

Feedback on these draft plans will be used to help shape the final Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plans (LCWIPs) for these areas. These plans set out the vision and priorities for cycling and walking improvements in these areas to create convenient and practical cycling and walking networks to help and encourage people to travel more sustainably. 

You said

For our map based forum engagement for the Loughborough area there were over 800 visits to the engagement portal with 158 comments, and for the south of Leicester area there were 750 visits and 114 comments. These comments included lots of useful enthusiastic feedback on the draft networks, and the infrastructure people would like to see in these areas.

You will be able to see a summary of the comments given as part of this engagement following further detailed analysis.

We did

Feedback received is being considered alongside the data evidence collated as part of the LCWIP development process, to help shape and create an updated network plan and identify potential concept plans of infrastructure for inclusion in the final draft LCWIP.

There will be further opportunity to provide feedback on the final draft LCWIP later in 2022, and a summary of engagement will be available to view on this page.