Top priorities for Dudley during the next decade were today identified as creating jobs, tackling obesity, preserving the borough’s heritage sites and reducing crime.

Business bosses and council leaders set out their vision for the next decade at a presentation ceremony.

The strategy was unveiled at Dudley Concert Hall today. Dudley Community Partnership, made up of the council and key public, private and voluntary sector partners, was behind the launch.

The strategy, which runs under the heading “my borough – our borough”, is revised every three years, and outlines the borough’s priorities.

Dudley Council leader, Councillor Anne Millward, said: “It sets out the main plan for the council and its partners for what they are striving to achieve over the next 10 years.

“It’s important that the work of the council meets the needs of the people living, working and visiting the borough.”

The six areas of the strategy document concern jobs and prosperity, health and well-being, heritage, culture and leisure, environment and housing, individual and community learning and community safety.

Chairman of the Dudley Community Partnership, Sarah Dugan, said “The purpose of the strategy is to bring together all of the positive aspects of living in the borough.”