This was a request from the local council and the neighborhood, emphasized Michael Tacke, City Councillor for Building, Urban Planning, Urban Development and the Environment. The new neighborhood management is a response to this wish, as is the extension of office hours.
The new neighborhood management works in cooperation between PLANUNGSGRUPPE STADTBÜRO and Diakonie im Braunschweiger Land gemeinnützige GmbH. In recent years, the "Socially Integrative City" districts in the Ost- and Westsiedlung, Fredenberg and the Seeviertel urban redevelopment area have already been successfully managed in Salzgitter using structural-social tandems.
Diana Graf, a graduate engineer in urban planning, is responsible for urban development projects, networking, citizen participation, public relations and owner activation, among other things. She is active in comparable on-site management in Salzgitter-Bad in the Ost- and Westsiedlung and in Kassel-Wesertor. "We want to continue shaping the neighborhood with the local people. Coexistence can only work together," emphasizes Diana Graf. This is why personal contact with people and networking are a focus of Tandem's construction and social work.
Sabine Naats shares this view. The qualified educationalist is responsible, among other things, for the supervision of socially integrative projects and tasks within urban development funding, the establishment of networks in the district and citizen participation with a focus on social issues. Sabine Naats also currently manages the SeeViertelTreff in Lebenstedt. "We want to expand the social projects and work more closely with the stakeholders in the neighborhood," announces Sabine Naats. This includes initiating new groups and supporting existing local groups. There are many volunteers who are already doing a lot of good things locally, such as the district festival and soapbox races. The neighborhood management wants to build on this. That's why the district managers are happy to welcome anyone who wants to get involved and get involved locally.
For city councillor Michael Tacke, it is also important to have a more intensive exchange with the major property owner van der Horst. Sustainable renovations and the creation of tenant meetings are desirable. He also referred to the integrated action plan, on which the politicians have to decide. Here, for example, a disposition fund for local projects is planned so that citizens can be more closely involved. "We want to take up the impulses from the neighbourhood and develop new things together with the local people," emphasized Michael Tacke.
The next steps for the new playground on Danziger Strasse have already been decided: the tenders should be completed in the fall so that construction can begin in late autumn. The opening is planned for the first quarter of 2019.
Information on new neighborhood management:
Diana Graf (PLANUNGSGRUPPE STADTBÜRO) and Sabine Naats (Diakonie im Braunschweiger Land gemeinnützige GmbH) are the new contacts in the neighborhood. Karsten Schröder (Managing Director of PLANUNGSGRUPPE STADTBÜRO) supports the team in an advisory capacity. He himself worked for many years as a neighborhood manager in the former redevelopment area in Fredenberg and is currently involved as a representative in the SeeViertel urban redevelopment area.
The neighborhood management office at Lange Hecke 4 in Steterburg is open from Monday to Thursday.
What is new is that times have been reserved for discussions with residents, stakeholders, institutions etc., at which there is always at least one contact person on site: Tuesday from 5 to 6 pm, Wednesday from 9 to 10 am and Thursday from 5 to 6 pm. Individual appointments can of course also be arranged. Irrespective of these times, the neighborhood management can also be reached by telephone on 05341 / 88 79 201 and by email at kontaktsteterburgnet.
Further information Formalized redevelopment area "Soziale Stadt Steterburg:
The "Steterburg" district was included in the "Socially Integrative City" urban development program in 2015 and formally designated as a redevelopment area in 2016.
The program is jointly funded by the federal, state and local authorities. The federal and state governments provide 2/3 of the funding to the city of Salzgitter as refinancing. Accordingly, the city has to bear 1/3 of the urban development costs.
The Socially Integrative City program includes an integrated approach to comprehensive urban renewal. This includes the following fields of action: housing market and housing industry; housing environment and public space; social activities and infrastructure; coexistence of different social and ethnic groups; schools and education; image improvement and public relations.
By linking structural and social measures, the aim is to improve people's living conditions and the social coexistence of the different population groups in the neighborhood over the entire duration of the redevelopment.