08. Sustainable Communities

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Amend Chapter 8, Section 8.4.1 - Local Community Development Committee to include the following:

Mayo Local Community Development Committee (LCDC), established in 2014, consists of public private partnerships of socio-economic interests. Mayo LCDC has a number of functions, one of which is to prepare and agree the local community elements of the Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP). The purpose of the LECP is to identify objectives and implement actions to strengthen and develop both the economic and community dimensions of the county. Central to the Mayo LECP and Action Plan 2016-2021, is the understanding that economic, local and community development is mutually supportive in building sustainable communities with strong local economies. The LECP seeks to progress the following goals: community development; social inclusion; health and wellbeing; education training and skills and culture, heritage and the Arts. The LCDC also coordinates, manages and oversees the implementation of local and community development programmes of the LECP, including has oversight of the Rural Development Programme and Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme, which are run by a number of Local Development Companies in the County.

Amend Chapter 8, Section 8.4.2 - Community Development in Mayo (last paragraph) to include the following:

Other agencies that assist community development in Mayo include Family Resource Centres which provide practical assistance to community groups, such as training, information, advice and use of shared facilities, in addition to educational and training opportunities. Sectoral communities are also assisted in the county by agencies, such as Mayo Intercultural Action, South West Mayo Development Company, Mayo North East Leader Partnership, Mayo Traveller Support Group, Mayo Traveller Inter Agency Forum, The Regional Drug Task Force, The Mayo Joint Policing Committee, The Disability Federation of Ireland and Outwest.

Insert the following policy to Chapter 8 Sustainable Communities, Section 8.4.3 Community Facilities and Social Infrastructure under SCP 10:

SCP: To support the enhancement of postal facilities in the County.

Insert policy in Section 8.4.4, Social Inclusion:

SCP 16: To support initiatives which provide access to social supports in terms of language, education and employment for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.

Amend Chapter 8, Section 8.4.4 - Social Inclusion in Mayo Policy SPC 12 as follows:

SCP 12 To support the implementation of the Mayo Local Economic and Community Plan in collaboration with the Local and Economic Community Development Committee to reduce the number of people in or at risk of social exclusion.

Insert the following objective after SCO 10:

SCO: To seek to provide Changing Spaces in the provision of any new public toilets, where feasible.

Amend Chapter 8, Section 8.4.7 Education, Training and Skills (part of last paragraph) as follows:

In addition, the Mayo Local Enterprise Office offers business information and advice, business kills training and mentoring support, as well as other skills and training options to support businesses in the county. Informal, unaccredited lifelong learning also has a huge role to play in building social capital, keeping people connected and engaged, encouraging and supporting people on a pathway to formal education and lifting people out of poverty.

Amend Chapter 8, Section 8.4.7 Education, Training and Skills, Policy SCP 23 as follows:

SCP 23: To support informal and formal initiatives which provide opportunities for people in Mayo to access appropriate education and training provision necessary to allow them to realise their full potential.

Amend Objective SCO 16 as follows:

SCO 16: To support the provision of childcare facilities and new and refurbished schools on well located sites, within or close to existing built-up areas, that meet the diverse needs of local populations and to support the intensification of development on existing school sites, where appropriate, and in accordance with Department of Education’s guidelines and Development Management Guidelines (Volume II).

Amend Policy SCP 28 as follows:

SCP 28 - To support initiatives at promoting Gaeilge, the Irish language. and the need for access to social supports in terms of language, education and employment for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.

Insert new policy in Section 8.4.8.2 (Islands and the Gaeltacht Mhaigh Éo) after Policy SCP 30:

SCP: To actively promote and encourage the provision of mixed social and affordable housing schemes to facilitate the retention and return of islanders and immigration to the island to ensure viable and sustainable populations on offshore islands.

Insert new objective after SCO 22 to read as follows:

SCO: To support and assist the formulation and implementation of Irish Language Plans (Plean Teanga) for the Gaeltacht Service Towns of Béal an Mhuirthead, Ballinrobe and Castlebar, and to promote the development of the Gaeltacht in Mayo in a manner that protects and enhances the distinctive linguistic and cultural heritage, whilst meeting the needs and aspirations of both residents and visitors alike.