Portsmouth's Local Strategic Partnership

Portsmouth's Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) is the city's umbrella partnership which brings together representatives from the public, private, voluntary and community sectors.

The LSP's overall aim is to improve the quality of life for people who live, work or visit Portsmouth by delivering outcomes through improved partnership working. After extensive community and stakeholder consultation, the LSP has produced the Vision for Portsmouth 2008 - 2018. The Vision is what the LSP is calling its new Sustainable Community Strategy, which replaces the 2004-2009 Community Strategy.

The LSP’s Vision for Portsmouth is for it to be

“The premier waterfront city with an unrivalled martime heritage – a great place to live, work and visit”.

In order to achieve this, partners will be working toward ten priorities.
We want to:

Improve opportunity and achievement in education, skills and lifelong learning
Make Portsmouth an accessible city, with sustainable and integrated transport
Develop Portsmouth as a city of innovation and enterprise, with a strong economy and employment opportunities for all
Make Portsmouth a city where everyone feels safe and is safe
Make Portsmouth an attractive and sustainable city
Deliver affordable, quality housing where people want to live
Encourage and enable healthy choices for all and provide appropriate access to health care and support
Enhance Portsmouth’s reputation as a city of culture, energy and passion, offering access for all to arts, sports and leisure
Celebrate the many diverse and different communities within Portsmouth and work together to create an inclusive city for everyone
Protect and support our more vulnerable residents by shaping public services to meet their needs

The detail of how partners will deliver against these priorities for Portsmouth will be set out in a three-year Local Area Agreement (LAA). This will be published in June 2008, alongside a document explaining more about the LSP’s Vision for each of the ten priorities. Details of our current LAA are available below.

How to contact us

You can contact the LSP Support Team by phone 023 9268 8560, or you can email LSP@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

You can also write to the Strategy Unit at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Below you will also find a link to the Portsmouth Community Network, which has additional information relating to the LSP. The Community Network is the city's umbrella organisation for the voluntary and community sector.

We also support other partner organisations, such as the Progress through Partnership programme. This is a regional pilot that will help build the capacity of the LSPs in the south east region to deliver their growing agendas.

If you would like to take a look please use the external link to the right.