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Recommendation[i]

Cabinet

Member[ii]

Response[iii]

Timetable[iv]

Lead Officer[v]

It was recommended that:

a)    An emphasis be placed in the description of the borough in the Leader’s foreword and the body of the

document that promotes Maidstone as a vibrant County Town, home to many strategic authorities including the Police and Fire Services.

Councillor Garland

The strategic Plan places economic development as a priority for Maidstone the suggestion has been incorporated into the plan.

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

b)    The term ‘direction of travel’ be replaced with the word objectives in the document.

Councillor Garland

Agreed

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

c)    On page 25 of the document’ in addition to the following reference to Tourism ‘As a consequence, the Council has reviewed our cultural services and tourism offer creating a new visitor economy business unit within economic development,’ the following sentence be added: The low financial priority given to Tourism should not prevent the authority from pursuing opportunities that would benefit the local economy and tourism, should they arise.

Councillor Garland

Agreed

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

d)    Further clarity should be given to the terms neighbourhood planning and planning for real process within the document and glossary.

Councillor Garland

Agreed

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

e)    Within the section local context in the document information be included on the size of the inward economy and inward investment to compliment the information already included on public money.  This should be introduced in the Leader’s foreword.

Councillor Garland

This information will be part of the Council’s Economic Development Strategy. Information is provided on the economy in the priority for Maidstone to have a growing economy and context. Information on the Economic Development Strategy  has been included in the plan

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

f)    The reference to the Marmot review includes a footnote or brief definition for the reader.

Councillor Garland

Agreed

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

g)    The reference to the Troubled  Families Programme on page 18 of the document be reworded from ‘we have also started to identify families who will be worked with through the government’s troubled families programme’ to worked ‘alongside’ or ‘supported’.

Councillor Garland

Agreed

Completed

Angela Woodhouse

h)    Clarification be given on the progress of issues relating to Maidstone’s economy that have been addressed by the Council’s priorities and strategic plan; what has been achieved so far and remaining aims and objectives.  A headline section should be added to the Strategic Plan that cross references with the refreshed Economic Development Strategy.  This addition to the strategic plan should include and show alignment to the relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) adopted by the Locality Board since the last version of this document.

Councillor Garland

The refresh includes update dates for actions and so identifies what has been completed. The Plan already has a full section on the economy under the priority for Maidstone to have a growing economy.

 An update was provided at quarter 2 on the progress with the plan so far this year. At the end of year we will provide a further  update on all the actions completed and outstanding.

 With regard to alignment to the locality board, the priorities do align and we will review our KPIs against the Locality Board Indicators once finalised. This will be completed at the end of the year when we agree the performance plan.

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Angela Woodhouse