Living Ambition - our 20 year vision

Living Ambition - aiming for the highest quality of life in London

Havering is already a great borough with a high quality of life, good services and many achievements to its name. The opportunities for this borough over the next twenty years are almost without limit. The Council will work with partners and the local community to seize those opportunities and shape a future for Havering that is bright, bold and rewarding for everyone who lives, visits, or works in the borough.

We have a clear ambition for Havering.  We want to provide our residents with the highest quality of life in London. We want to be a borough that thrives on its links to the heart of the Capital and yet retains the strong and historic identity that we currently enjoy.

Havering in 20 years time will be a new model suburb – a more successful and energised gateway to London, but still flavoured and shaped by its attractive natural environment, unique history and vibrant culture.

Our community will have become more prosperous, through first class education and employment opportunities for all.  Havering will be a borough where new talent and innovation is welcomed and nurtured. The borough will have benefited from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and their enduring legacy.

Our re-invigorated town centres will be places of enterprise, where people enjoy their lives.  Attractive and popular housing will be interlaced with high quality cultural, retail and leisure opportunities.  Thriving towns, villages and neighbourhoods will be set in, and studded with, beautiful green open spaces that enhance Havering's standing as one of London's greenest boroughs.

Safer and cleaner streets will help foster great public pride and public services will work in partnership with local people - empowering them to continue the improvement of Havering for future generations.  Above all, Havering's residents will enjoy their lives in any of the harmonious communities that make up of one of London's finest boroughs.

Goals

The Council's Living Ambition agenda will be delivered through the Council and its partners working towards five goals.

Goal for Environment : to ensure a  clean, safe and green borough


Goal for Learning : to achieve excellence in education and learning


Goal for Towns and communities : to provide opportunities for all through economic, social and cultural activity


Goal for Individuals : to value and enhance the life of every individual


Goal for Value : to deliver high customer satisfaction and a stable council tax