Ambition 6 Making Nottinghamshire somewhere people love to live, work and visit

We’ll develop and deliver a Housing Strategy for Nottinghamshire, alongside district and borough partners. This will help us build more sustainable homes that meet people’s needs, including specialised accommodation, and speed up and coordinate housebuilding across the County. We’ll also supply sites for new housing developments.

We’ll work alongside our district and borough partners to ensure attractive, sustainable and well-planned residential and commercial developments. We’ll also deliver the infrastructure our communities need, such as waste and recycling sites, transport connections and school places.

We’ll develop Levelling Up projects that boost Nottinghamshire’s economy, where investment is needed most. We’ll make sure those projects take advantage of Government funding opportunities and attract other sources of investment to help our priority communities.

We’ll improve public access to our natural environment, so more people can enjoy what Nottinghamshire has to offer.

• We’ll look after, and improve, our public rights of way network and promote access to our Country Parks, so residents and visitors can make the most of nature in Nottinghamshire.
• We’ll designate five new Local Nature Reserves for people and wildlife and support opportunities for people to actively engage with their local Green Spaces, including volunteering.
• We’ll work with our partners to shine a spotlight on our County’s special landscapes and heritage, so that we can attract investment to protect and enhance them.

We’ll use our cultural venues and libraries to share our art, heritage and unique stories, helping grow a shared enjoyment of Nottinghamshire. This will promote pride and ownership among residents, and create an appreciation of our cultural heritage among visitors.

We’ll also take care of our many heritage sites on our land and aim for 75% to achieve ‘favourable management’ status. We’ll also work to prevent our built heritage suffering neglect, decay, or unsuitable or unsympathetic developments, to protect and preserve our County’s history.

We’ll deliver our Nottinghamshire Visitor Economy Strategy [PDF] to grow tourism in our County. We’ll promote our beautiful country parks and green spaces, like Sherwood Forest, and Rufford Abbey, as well as our sporting venue, the National Water Sports Centre. We’ll look for more opportunities to invest in and improve them too.

We'll develop and deliver a Nottinghamshire Food Charter and partnership action plan that shows the role food can play in creating healthier lives, richer economies and a sustainable environment. We'll also make the most of the planning and transport system to make local areas safer and easier places to be active and socialise. This will improve health and wellbeing and benefit the environment.