Issue - meetings

To consider the draft Council Plan.

(Report attached)

The draft Council Plan was considered by the Committee. The Plan was a much more concise document than previous versions with the intention of it being a strategic and public-facing document. The key to the Plan was the push to put the customer at the heart of everything the Council does and shaping the Council’s services to suit customers’ needs.

Members generally welcomed the document but it was suggested that some refinement and re-ordering might be undertaken to address two issues in respect of Areas of Highest Need. These were placing the information around these sites away from the very front of the document and ensuring that the descriptions of the areas more accurately reflected the locations rather than simply repeating the Lower Super Output area designations. It was also noted that the foreword from the Leader of the Council would be prepared in time for the forthcoming Council meeting.

RECOMMENDED that

subject to the amendments in the preamble above, the Council Plan attached at Appendix 1 to the report be approved.