Local Area Agreement
What is the Local Area Agreement?
The Local Area Agreement (LAA) is the tool for achieving the changes set out in the Sustainable Community Strategy. It is a three-year agreement between the partners in Peterborough and our partners in regional and national government, setting out the actions we will take and the targets we aim to meet in pursuit of the longer term vision of the Sustainable Community Strategy. It is perhaps best to see these as two parts of the same document, with the Sustainable Community Strategy setting out the vision and priorities for Peterborough over the period 2008 -21 and a series of LAAs, negotiated on a rolling three-year basis, outlining the short and medium-term action plans for helping us realise that vision.
The agreement represents the work of all the partners whether public, private, voluntary, community or faith sector. As such it is a genuine partnership document, representing our collective work plan and recognised that no one partner can deliver our ambitious agenda.
The GPP acts as the governing body for the development and performance management of both documents. Performance management reports on the Local Area Agreement are produced monthly and assessed by the relevant thematic partnership before discussion at the GPP Board itself.
Further information on Local Area Agreements can be found on the website for the Government Office for the East of England (GO-East).