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• Responding to local priorities
• Improving economic and social wellbeing
• Joining-up service delivery
• Landscape management and sustainable tourism

Good practice examples

• Bringing services closer to people Last updated 18 February 2008

  How pathfinders have adopted innovative approaches to serving people in remote areas, such as mobile library services, staffed customer information points in village halls, and outreach vehicles.

• Engaging people in local decision-making Last updated 18 February 2008

  Examples of how pathfinders have engaged and empowered communities through parish planning and local consultations.

• Responding to local priorities Last updated 18 February 2008

  With local authorities and their partners under increasing pressure to do more with fewer resources, it is important to focus on the real needs of a community. We look at some of the innovative ways in which pathfinders have done this.

• Improving economic and social wellbeing Last updated 25 February 2008

  Pathfinders have shown how local authorities can provide a strategic vision for the people and places they serve, through initiatives such as community broadband access and social enterprise projects.

• Joining-up service delivery Last updated 18 February 2008

  We look at the ways in which pathfinder projects have worked across county and regional borders, and addressed issues such as multiple planning consents in coastal areas through multi-agency working.

• Landscape management and sustainable tourism Last updated 25 February 2008

  Any development in rural areas needs to be sensitive to the needs of the landscape and its communities. This section looks at how pathfinders have met this need, and how their work has fed into local area agreements.