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It is essential that monitoring the delivery of our plan is transparent and subject to rigorous challenge. A performance tracker is presented to the council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee on a quarterly basis. Actions and supporting performance indicators are measurable and outcome focused. For accountability, all actions are allocated to a responsible officer and lead member.

The Council Plan is an overarching strategic document and is refreshed annually to ensure it remains a live document. The plan will be supported by a suite of strategies to deliver our priorities and areas of focus. These include:

• Climate Change and Ecological Framework
• Housing and Homelessness Strategy
• Waste and Recycling Strategy
• Economic Development and Tourism Strategy
• Strategic and Local Plan
• Flood Response and Resilience Action Plan
• Communications Strategy
• Community Safety Strategy
• Tree Strategy

A number of these will be developed over the next 12 months, for example the Climate Change and Ecological Framework. Strategies currently in place will need to be reviewed to ensure they remain fit-for-purpose, such as the Housing and Homelessness Strategy and Community Safety Strategy. Our Overview and Scrutiny Committee will play a pivotal role in this review and provide ongoing monitoring to ensure they deliver what they are supposed to.

In light of the shortened delivery timeframe of this Council Plan and the ongoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) , a comprehensive review of the actions underpinning each of the focus areas has been carried out. As part of this refresh, we have reviewed the resources required to deliver these actions to ensure they remain proportionate and achievable. Beyond 2025 and as we move towards LGR, the resource allocation is likely to shift. This will directly impact the delivery of actions within the plan. This is why it is prudent to undertake an annual refresh.

In addition to LGR, the council will need to understand and manage the impact of the government’s overhaul of the current funding system. The council has already suffered from significant cuts to funding during the austerity years and now faces the prospect of losing a substantial proportion of its remaining funding as a result of funding reform and the reset of the retained business rates scheme. While this will not impact the approved budget in 2025/26 and therefore the resources allocated to meet the Council Plan requirements in year, it is likely to have an affect on the resources available to the council in the remaining years of the plan.

The Council Plan will work hand-in-hand with our Medium Term Financial Strategy to ensure we retain focus on our agreed priorities across the life of the Plan but review and update actions in light of diminishing resources.

Alongside this, we recognise the need to continue our journey of award-winning digital transformation, embracing technologies to deliver services more efficiently and effectively. Adopting agile approaches to our ways of working will be key to allowing us to remain flexible and responsive to evolving needs, while enhancing accessibility.

Not all of our services can be represented within the Council Plan, and some will be carried out as business-as-usual through departmental service plans.