Local Agenda 21 A Vision for North Lanarkshire

"North Lanarkshire will be a place where partnership working builds on the existing strengths in our community to develop services which meet the needs of all our citizens creating a sustainable environment and better quality of life."

In North Lanarkshire the Community Plan and the Local Agenda 21 Strategy are integrated through the sharing of a common Vision and a set of Sustainability Indicators which comprises a shared integrated monitoring framework. Through sharing a common vision and a common monitoring system these two key documents demonstrate the necessary joined up thinking that is required to deliver a more Sustainable Community.

A Sustainable Community

For the purposes of this LA 21 strategy a sustainable Community follows the difinition used in The Scottish local Agenda 21 route Planner produced by COSLA. A sustainable Community is one where there is

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