Decision details

Decision details

Community Plan 2019 - 2023

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Business Manager – HR and Organisational Development presented a report which provided Members with an opportunity to comment on the final draft of a new Community Plan.

 

The Council’s current Corporate Plan had been reviewed and refreshed. In part, this was in response to a renewed focus on the ‘Cleaner, Safer, Greener’ agenda and also in recognition of the need for greater clarity and understanding about what the Council was trying to achieve which was one of the recommendations from the 2016 Peer Review. The development of the revised objectives included within the plan had been updated and refined following consultation with a range of stakeholders and the results of the residents survey had been used to sense check the objectives within the plan and where appropriate refinements made.

 

It was proposed that the plan be renamed Newark and Sherwood’s Community Plan to better reflect the largely outward facing nature of the plan and acknowledging that its delivery was not something that the Council could achieve on its own. The Community Plan set out the purpose and values of the Council and included eleven objectives underpinned by supporting actions. A copy of the final draft was attached as an appendix to the report.

 

In respect of the objective contained within the Community Plan titled ‘Enhance and Sustain Newark Town Centre’ the Committee considered that such an objective was appropriate for all town centres in the District and not just Newark, and it was agreed (with 4 votes for and 3 against) that this be amended to read ‘Enhance and Sustain Town Centres’. 

 

AGREED (unanimously) that the Community Plan 2019 – 2023 be recommended to Council for approval and adoption.

 

Reason for Decision

 

To enable the Council to adopt a revised plan which in turn will provide focus around delivering what matters most to our communities.

Publication date: 10/07/2019

Date of decision: 21/02/2019

Decided at meeting: 21/02/2019 - Policy & Finance Committee

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