Cheshire West and Chester Health and Wellbeing Strategy Consultation - Our Place Plan for the Borough 2026 - 2031

Share your views on the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

The Council, along with its partners and residents are developing a new Health and Wellbeing Strategy that sets out the vision and priorities for health services across the borough for the next five years (April 2026 until March 2031).

The new strategy will provide the vision and priorities for health services, the Council, blue light emergency services and the voluntary and community sector in the borough to help them work together and improve health and wellbeing for residents. The priorities will be jointly delivered by all partners, with progress monitored each year.

How we developed the new strategy

We developed our new draft strategy through discussions with community groups and a public engagement which ended in August 2025. This engagement helped us to understand which priorities and themes were most important to people. We used the feedback from this engagement to help us to develop and shape the draft strategy, which we are now consulting on.

You can find out more about the engagement on the strategy here

The priorities outlined in the draft strategy are:

1. Give every child the best start in life.
2. Enable all children, young people and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives.
3. Create fair employment and good work for all.
4. Ensure a healthy standard of living for all.
5. Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities.
6. Strengthen the role and impact of ill health prevention.
7. Tackle racism, discrimination and their outcomes.
8. Pursue environmental sustainability and health equity together.

Within the draft strategy for each priority there are key commitments which set out the actions we will take to help improve the health and wellbeing of our residents in Cheshire West and Chester.

Find out more

• Read the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy here
• Read our summary document here or download as a PDF here
• Peter, a resident of Cheshire West and Chester encourages people to share their views on the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

You can share your views on the draft strategy by:

• Completing a survey to tell us your views
• Attending a face to face event - there will be opportunities throughout the consultation to come and share your views about the draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy, details will follow here shortly.

Please share your views by Sunday 30 November 2025.

What happens next

Your views are really important and what you tell us will be used to help shape the final Cheshire West and Chester Health & Wellbeing Strategy. A summary of the feedback will be available here in January 2026 and the Council and its partners will consider the feedback to inform the final Strategy which will be published here in April 2026.