THE seven areas of Blackburn with Darwen's Community Plan, The 2020 Vision, have specific targets to meet.

These include:

CRIME:

Reduce domestic burglary in the borough by 35 per cent within five years.

Reduce vehicle crime by 35 per cent within five years.

Upgrade security on 3000 homes and commercial buildings by 2005.

LOCAL ECONOMY:

Increase Gross Domestic Product from 85 per cent of the national average to 90 per cent.

Encourage 50 businesses per year to adopt e-commerce.

Complete Barbara Castle Way.

BUILDING COMMUNITIES:

Increase the involvement of people in community groups by to five per cent of the population by 2005.

Set up a Youth Parliament for the borough.

Create an ICT Community Information Directory on all community groups in the borough MULTICULTURALISM:

Increase reporting of racial harassment by 20 per cent by 2005.

Increase ethnic minority representation in key statutory agencies from 7 per cent to 9.8 per cent by 2005.

All agencies set targets to meet recommendations set out in the MacPherson Report (the inquiry following the death of Stephen Lawrence)

HEALTH:

Reduce number of girls between 13-15 years of age who become pregnant from 9 per cent to 7 per cent per 1,000.

Reduce the number of babies born with low birth weight to nine per 100 births by 2005.

Increase the take up of healthy school meals and Breakfast Clubs in schools.

EDUCATION:

Give 80 per cent of three and four-year-olds and early education place by 2005.

Increase proportion of 16-year-olds getting five GCSEs (grade A-C) from 36 per cent to 43 per cent by 2005.

Increase the number of 16 to 18-year-olds in school or college to 70 per cent by 2005.

LOCAL ENVIRONMENT:

Repair 95 per cent of dangerous defects in roads within 24 hours by 2005.

Increase the number of streets meeting national cleanliness standards from 86 per cent to 88 per cent by 2005.

Recycle or compost 25 per cent of all household waste by 2005.