As a community we must face issues together. We
are concerned about how to ensure that young people will find our
area affordable and attractive to live, work and raise new families
therefore keeping our towns and villages vibrant and
sustainable.
To truly reflect the needs of our community we
must consult on a regular basis and one of the ways we do this
through Community Voice, a collection of Eden citizens who have
agreed to take part in various types of consultation exercises on
any Council issue. This body of people only serve on the panel for
a limited period of time so that we can continually reflect new
views and opinions.
Eden Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) has
recently been formed to improve key service delivery in your local
area. Soon, it will refresh Eden's community strategy, by checking
its priorities with local people before going on to plan and
monitor delivery of its action plan.
We work together with other agencies within and
across other districts to provide the best possible service to
residents in Eden. Occasionally it can be more cost effective to
deliver a service across a wider area and where possible we
eliminate unnecessary expenditure by working in partnership. For
further details
view partnerships
We also play an active part on local
partnerships such as the Penrith Partnership, the Alston Moor
Partnership and the Vital Villages programme that is being
delivered in the Alston, Kirkby Stephen and Appleby Areas.
We also have a place in the international
community and our largest town Penrith has a sister in Australia.
Penrith City in Australia was named after Penrith in Cumbria. The
formal Sister City Agreement, which hangs in the Town Hall,
Penrith, Cumbria, states a desire to "perpetuate the close
association between the citizens of Penrith, Australia and Penrith,
Cumbria to promote greater understanding and friendship and in so
doing, contribute to the welfare of both countries".
