Issue - meetings

The Acting Chief Executive presented the refresh of the Council Plan for Members’ consideration. 

The Executive Committee was advised that the Council Plan detailed the Council’s vision and the strategic purposes, or Council priorities, underpinning this.  The strategic purposes had been informed by the data available and a review of the content of the Council Plan had been undertaken by the Leader and Portfolio Holders.  It was recognised that the Council needed to work closely with other key partners in order to meet the needs of local communities and to address the strategic purposes. The Council Plan and strategic purposes would be reviewed in more detail following the local elections that were due to take place in May 2024.

When reviewing the content of the Council Plan, feedback received from residents who had completed the Council’s community survey had been taken into account.  There had been three key priorities highlighted by residents in completed surveys:

·             Community safety

·             Parks and well maintained public spaces

·             Housing

Based on this feedback and taking into account other key data, these three priorities were proposed as the focus for the Council’s strategic purposes moving forward, alongside economic development.

Members welcomed the proposed amendments to the Council Plan and strategic purposes detailed in the report and highlighted that the changes, given they were informed by feedback received in completed community survey panel responses, demonstrated that the Council was listening to the public.  Officers were asked to thank residents for the feedback that they had provided in completed surveys and to highlight how their responses had informed proposed changes to the Council Plan.

RECOMMENDED that

1)            the 2023/24 annual refresh of the strategic priorities, associated with the key deliverables and financial implications, be approved.

2)            the process of establishing  and agreeing meaningful outcomes for the key deliverables be approved and reported within the Financial and Organisational Quarterly Performance Reports; and

3)            a full review of Council Plan and priorities for 2024 – 2027 take place in Autumn 2024 alongside the financial planning process and in accordance with the Medium-Term Financial Plan (MTFP).