York Without Walls - Building a future for York

Without Walls sets out and ensures the delivery of a long-term vision for York. This vision covers the issues that affect people's lives and can be divided into eight areas.

Without Walls is made up of people from influential organisations across York who meet three times a year. The group works with many other groups in the city to move the vision forward.

All Without Walls meetings are open to the public. Although the public can't vote in the meetings they can register to speak for a short time.

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• York Wow
  Without Walls sets out to and ensures the delivery of a long-term vision for York. This vision covers the issues that affect peoples's lives.
• Sustainable Wow
  We aim to reduce our impact on the environment while maintaining York's special qualities and enabling the city and its communities to grow and thrive.
• Inclusive Wow
  We will do our best to make sure that all citizens feel included in the life of York. We will help improve prospects for all, tackle poverty and exclusion and make services and facilities easy to access.
• Culture Wow
  We want to inspire residents and visitors to free their creative talents and make York the most active city in the country. We will achieve this by providing high quality cultural and sporting activities for all.
• Learning Wow
  We want to make sure that local people have access to world-class education and training facilities and provision. This will help them to develop the skills and aspirations they need to play an active part in society and contribute to the life of the city.
• Safety Wow
  We want York to be a safer city with low crime rates and high opinions of the city's safety record.
• Business Wow
  We will continue to support York's successful economy to make sure that employment rates remain high and that local people benefit from new job opportunities.
• Healthy Wow
  We want to be a city where residents enjoy long healthy and independent lives. For this to happen we will make sure that people are supported to make healthy lifestyle choices and that health and social care services are quick to respond for those that need them.