Issue - meetings

RESOLVED:  That the Strategic Plan not be reviewed in 23/24 and the corporate planning timetable at 3.3 of the report be approved.

(See Record of Decision)

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.