King’s Lynn Masterplan Public Consultation

The priorities for our town

King’s Lynn has been included in the Government’s Pride in Place Programme for £20 Million for the town over 10 years. The King’s Lynn Masterplan links directly to the towns allocation and will provide a spatial vision for the town that could help direct where some of this funding could be spent as well as leveraging other funding opportunities. We’ve carried out a lot of work to understand the themes of all the feedback from local people and community groups that has been shared with us and we’ve checked these against the themes of the Pride in Place funding. So now we’ve come up with Eight Strategic Priorities for our town in the 10 Year Vision – these are the broad themes for what the funding will be spent on in our town. They are:

• Town Centre Revitalisation: Focus on bringing empty buildings back into use, enhancing market offerings, supporting the continued rejuvenation of key heritage assets, improving green spaces, regenerating the riverfront, and supporting independent businesses.
• Neighbourhoods and Affordable Housing: Undertake neighbourhood renewal through community guided public realm improvements and collaborate with partners to coordinate services to deliver quality affordable homes.
•  Employment and Skills: Raise skills levels by continuing support for youth targeted programmes, providing opportunities for economically inactive & NEET youth people to move closer to training and employment.
• Health and Wellbeing Infrastructure: Support improved, accessible and affordable leisure facilities and provision in local communities. Create opportunities for multi-agency service provision and improved access to physical activities for disadvantaged groups, particularly targeted at support in the communities aligned with other programmes and initiatives. Integrate health services and address health inequalities..
• Transport and Connectivity: support continued active travel improvements alongside wider network improvements to address congestion, reduce emissions and create a safe cycling network..
  Safer Streets: coordinate a multi-agency approach to effectively improve street safety and reduce the causes of anti-social behaviour. Improve public safety through infrastructure upgrades. Expand and develop successful local youth initiatives, providing regular positive engagement.
• Education and Youth Engagement: Expand and enhance opportunities for youth development programmes, learning and skills development and positive activities for young people to raise aspirations and create civic pride.
• Community Capacity Building: Providing support to strengthen skills, knowledge and resources to empower communities to enable positive change and grow social capital. Review and harness opportunities to improve community assets and spaces to meet local needs.

Please rate these priorities for how important they are to you. Your feedback will help us to prioritise the investment.