Councillor Perry, the Cabinet Member for Corporate Services,
introduced the report recommending that the existing Strategic Plan
be retained and that the proposed corporate planning timetable be
approved. The Cabinet Member explained
that the current Strategic Plan was adopted in 2018, updated in
2020 and refreshed again last year with an update to the areas of
focus for 2023/28 for each priority. He
did not consider that any changes were required at this
stage. To develop a new Strategic Plan
would have a substantially greater impact on resources which, in
his opinion, was unnecessary at this stage.
In
response to a question about resourcing a refresh or creation of a
new Strategic Plan in future, the Director of Finance, Resources
and Business Improvement explained that work on the original
Strategic Plan was carried out mostly in-house, so if it was
decided to make changes in 2024/25, the effect would be that other
projects would not be given such priority.
RESOLVED to RECOMMEND to the CABINET: That the
Strategic Plan not be reviewed in 2023/24 and that the corporate
planning timetable set out at section 3.3 of the report of the
Director of Strategy, Insight and Governance be
approved.