Guidance

Pride in Place Programme : 10-year vision content checklist

Published 12 August 2026

Your 10-year vision should outline your local community’s vision for the future, with a clear plan guided by community engagement for how your Neighbourhood Board will deliver this change over the next decade. 

What to include in your 10-year vision 

We envisage that the majority of Pride in Place Plan 10-year visions will be up to 30 pages in length, but overall length will vary according to local needs. 

Your 10-year vision must include information required in line with Pride in Place Programme guidance. A suggested format for your 10-year vision is set out below, together with a guide to the length of each section. You should adapt it to suit your own local area and plan, but include all the content requested. Your plan must be submitted in a PDF format. 

Places are encouraged to use diagrams, maps, charts, and other visuals to support the narrative (and you may find also reduce your word count). Boards should aim to draft the 10-year vision as a single cohesive document, with an accessible and public-facing narrative setting out your vision for change, bearing in mind that it will be published. 

Section 1: The 10-year vision  

[Guide 250-500 words] 

Short vision statement for your place over the next decade: 

• What will the neighbourhood look and feel like? 
• How will life be different? 
• What will success look like?  

Section 2: Place and people 

[Guide 500-750 words] 

Each place will have its own interpretation of what is core to the identity of the area, and you should adapt the following suggestions according to what matters to your place. 

• You may wish to include a short description of your area
  • Its geography; history; identity; and story so far
• You must include a map of the agreed boundary
  • This must match the correct geographic boundary for your place, as agreed in your Neighbourhood Board and Boundary submission  

Section 3: Community engagement 

[Guide 1,000 words] 

When writing this section, please explain the variety of ways that you have involved the community and local residents in developing your Pride in Place Plan. This might include some of the methods shared in the PiPP Community Engagement Toolkit, and is likely to include methods bespoke to your neighbourhood and community.  

• Who you engaged in the community
  • Consider residents, groups, geographies
• How did you engage?
  • Show how you have reached out to all parts of the community
• How have you reached seldom heard groups? 
  • Were there any parts of the community who have proved more difficult to reach and how do you plan to address this? 
• What were the key themes emerging? 
  • You may want to summarise the key themes  to refer back to in subsequent sections  

Section 4: What we learned

[Guide 1,000 words] 

This should reference evidence from your community engagement and may include information from the data pack and polling provided by MHCLG; and any additional local data, case studies, and stories you feel are relevant: 

• What are the most important challenges and opportunities facing your neighbourhood over the next decade? 

Section 5: Priorities for change  

[Guide 500-750 words per priority] 

You should include details of what overarching themes you wish to prioritise, as identified by your community engagement and broader evidence base. For each priority, consider: 

• Why does it matter? 
  • What challenge or opportunity is this priority responding to? 
• How did residents shape this priority? 
  • How did community engagement influence this priority and your proposed approach? 
• What does success look like? 
  • How will residents, businesses or communities experience the neighbourhood differently if this priority is successfully delivered? 
• What is your approach? 
  • What interventions, actions, or investments will contribute to achieving this priority? 

Section 6:  Delivering the vision together 

6.1 Community leadership and continuous improvement 

[Guide 500-750 words] 

This section may include: 

• How you will continue to engage and consult the local community and other relevant people and organisations to deliver this vision over the next 10 years
  • Including how residents will remain involved and priorities continue to be tested 
• Whether the Board has started to consider plans for moving towards a community-led delivery model
  • This might include plans to work with an existing trusted organisation in your community, build leadership capacity in your Neighbourhood Board, map assets of community value or attract more funding through philanthropy or other grants. You might even be looking further ahead and exploring different legal structures that would enable you to generate revenue, take ownership of assets and employ staff. (There will be opportunities to learn more about these different models over the next couple of years.) 
• How the Board will monitor progress, learn, and adapt over time
  • What plans does the Board have to review outcomes and progress; and refine priorities and approaches over time? 

6.2 Partnership working

[Guide 500-750 words] 

• What role will local partners play in achieving the Pride in Place vision? 
  • This may include community organisations, local businesses, public sector partners and other anchor institutions

• If your place is in a Mayoral Combined Authority, have you consulted with them on the contents of your Pride in Place Plan, or do you have plans to do so? 

• If your place is in Scotland or Wales, have you thought how your Pride in Place Plan aligns with relevant Scottish Government or Welsh Government strategies? 

6.3 Governance, accountability, and decision-making

[Guide 500-750 words] 

You should use this section to outline the governance arrangements including how decisions are made and who will be accountable for delivery. Consider: 

• The Board 
  • Membership, leadership, ways of working, and distinction from the local authority 
• The accountable body 
  • The role the accountable body will play in financial management, assurance, and compliance
• Decision making and transparency 
  • How will decisions be taken, and governance and transparency requirements be met?  
• Investment and project selection 
  • Give an overview of how projects for investment will be identified and selected