Issue - meetings

With the assistance of a report by the Chief Officers Management Team, the Council are recommended to adopt a replacement Corporate Plan.

Following an introduction by the Leader of the Council, Councillor D P Holley, the Council considered a report by the Chief Officers’ Management Team (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) regarding the adoption of a replacement Corporate Plan.

In commending the document to Members, Councillor Holley explained that the aims and outcomes contained in the proposed Plan would contribute to corporate and service strategies and service plans and provide the framework within which progress on the achievement of the Council’s priorities would be monitored.  After questioning the process by which the seventeen medium term objectives had been subsumed into six priorities, Members acknowledged the involvement they would have in the development of detailed targets and baselines as part of the comprehensive performance management framework.  It was therefore

RESOLVED

  that the Corporate Plan:  Growing Success be adopted and the process for the  development of baselines and targets noted.

To consider a report by the Head of Policy on the adoption of a Corporate Plan prior to its submission to full Council for approval.

Subject to an amendment to the 11^th vision bullet point on the first page of the Plan to refer to the targeting of resources to meet the greatest needs and the inclusion of the baseline for 5,000 affordable homes by 2007 under the aim for housing that meets local needs, recommended to full Council that the document “Growing Success:  A Corporate Plan” be approved.

Consideration was given to a report by the Head of Policy, to which was attached a copy of the replacement Corporate Plan – “Growing Success” developed to support the Council’s Community Strategy, provide the context within which the Comprehensive Performance Management Framework would operate and assist in prioritisation.  Copies of the report and Plan are appended in the Minute Book.

In so doing, Members’ attention was drawn to the views expressed by the Overview and Scrutiny Panels regarding the geographical and social diversity throughout the District and the practicalities of balancing economic growth to reduce “out commuting”.  Having been advised that the Panels would be given the opportunity to discuss the Plan’s targets as and when they were developed and subject to an amendment to the 4th bullet point of the vision’s characteristics to refer to the targeting of resources to meet the greatest needs, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  that full Council be invited to endorse the document - “Growing Success:  A Corporate Plan” appended to the report now submitted.