Issue - meetings
Corporate Plan 2024-2028
Meeting: 24/01/2024 - Council (Item 10)
10 Corporate Plan 2024-2028 
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Purpose
To present the Council’s Corporate Plan 2024-2028, for adoption by Full Council.
Recommendations
That Council resolves to:
1. Review the appended ‘Our Cotswolds Our Plan’ and agree any modifications.
2. Subject to modifications, agree to adopt the plan.
3. Delegate authority to the Chief Executive in consultation with the Leader of the Council to make agreed modifications and consequential amendments to the text and layout.
Additional documents:
- Annex A - Our Cotswolds Our Plan, item 10
PDF 8 MB
- Annex B - Our Cotswolds, Our Plan- Action Plan 2024, item 10
PDF 1 MB
- Webcast for Corporate Plan 2024-2028
Minutes:
The purpose of the report was to present the Council’s Corporate Plan 2024-2028, for adoption by Full Council
Councillor Lisa Spivey, in the absence of Councillor Joe Harris, introduced and outlined the following points:
- The new plan was described as building upon the ambitious previous plan agreed after the elections in 2019, following changes in the political and economic landscape which had occurred since its adoption. This included the Covid-19 Pandemic and recent economic circumstances.
- It was highlighted that progress had been made in areas like working to address the climate change emergency locally and delivering the green economic growth strategy whilst delivering core services.
- The new strategy was outlined as a streamlined document based on the pressures faced by local authorities in the UK, but was still an ambitious plan covering statutory and non-statutory services provided.
Councillor McKeown seconded the recommendations and outlined the important aspects of the plan covering the climate change emergency.
Councillor Jenkinson joined the Council meeting at this item and apologised for the lateness.
There were comments around how there was cross-party support for many ideas but it was stated that there needed to be a detailed action plan and updates where required. It was noted that there would be updates on progress with priorities against published key performance indicators.
It was highlighted that the previous corporate plan had largely been delivered against a difficult economic backdrop.
It was highlighted that Cabinet Members would be held accountable to deliver on key priorities within the Corporate Plan.
It was noted that farms should be included within the Local Plan as a specific form of business which requires support within the District.
Councillor Fowles wished for it to be minuted that he would like a briefing from Councillor Dale about how he has encouraged businesses into the District such as ZeroAvia. Councillor Dale responded that he had made many visits to businesses mentioned and continued to engage with them on their work within the District.
Councillor Spivey in summing up made the following points:
- It was agreed that it was a live document and it remained under review based on circumstances arising.
- It was reaffirmed that the document was building upon the priorities in the previous plan rather than rolling over previous commitments.
Voting Record
19 For, 8 Against, 2 Abstentions, 5 Absent/Did not vote
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Abstention |
Absent/ Did not vote |
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Angus Jenkinson |
Chris Twells |
Andrew Maclean |
David Cunningham |
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Claire Bloomer |
Daryl Corps |
Gina Bloomfield |
Dilys Neill |
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Clare Turner |
David Fowles |
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Gary Selwyn |
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Helene Mansilla |
Jeremy Theyer |
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Joe Harris |
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Ian Watson |
Julia Judd |
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Ray Brassington |
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Jon Wareing |
Len Wilkins |
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Juliet Layton |
Tom Stowe |
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Lisa Spivey |
Tony Slater |
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Mark Harris |
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Michael Vann |
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Mike Evemy |
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Mike McKeown |
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Nigel Robbins |
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Nikki Ind |
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Patrick Coleman |
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Paul Hodgkinson |
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Roly Hughes |
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Tony Dale |
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Tristan Wilkinson |
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Meeting: 11/01/2024 - Cabinet (Item 220)
220 Corporate Plan 2024 - 2028 PDF 91 KB
Purpose
To present the Council’s Corporate Plan 2024-2028, and agree to recommend to Full Council.
Recommendations
That Cabinet resolves to:
1. Review the appended Corporate Plan 2024-2028 and agree any modifications.
2. Subject to modifications, agree to recommend to Full Council to adopt the plan.
Additional documents:
Minutes:
This item was withdrawn from the agenda and not considered by Cabinet.
Meeting: 08/01/2024 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Item 23)
23 Corporate Plan 2024-2028 PDF 70 KB
Purpose
To present the Council’s Corporate Plan 2024-2028 to Cabinet, and that they agree to recommend to Full Council.
Recommendation
That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee scrutinises the report and agrees any recommendations it wishes to submit to the Cabinet meeting on 11 January
Invited
Councillor Joe Harris, Leader of the Council
Robert Weaver, Chief Executive
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Chair of the Committee invited the Leader of the Council to introduce the item;
The purpose of the item was to present the Council’s Corporate Plan 2024-2028 to the Committee, ahead of its approval by Cabinet on 11 January.
The Leader of the Council provided an overview of the Corporate Plan, emphasising that changes would be made to it prior to its submission to Council for final approval. The document, subject to changes, focused on key priorities: delivering genuinely affordable housing, supporting the local economy, and addressing the climate emergency. The Leader of the Council acknowledged the financial challenges faced by the Council and stressed the need for efficient service delivery.
The Committee commented on the report and asked questions, discussing definitions of affordable housing, and the Leader stated that the preferred form of affordable housing for the Council was socially rented housing.
The Committee made the following suggestions to amend the plan which were accepted by the Leader;
- Greater clarity was required on objectives - to be clear about what tangible things the Council wants to do and what the outcomes will be.
- Focus on key deliverables with a ‘less is more’ approach as opposed to a focus on the wider aspirations of the Council.
- Tackling the ecological emergency should have greater emphasis in the Corporate Plan.
- A note to explain where/who the photos show would be useful.
- Amend wording to remove ‘recreate’ in Aim (noting the Leader advised this page was likely to be deleted).
- That the Overview and Scrutiny Committee would like to review progress against target dates (item for 2024/25 workplan) and the Leader gave a commitment to update the Committee. Key Performance Indicators to be aligned with Corporate Plan to show what success looks like.
- That the presentation of the document would be updated before the presentation to Full Council on 24 January 2024.
- Note that any changes to staff responsibility would need to be updated periodically and these updates reported to the Committee.
RESOLVED: To NOTE the report