Decision details

The Updated Business Plan 2010–2015 identifies the changes to the planning assumptions made in the Heritage Services Business Plan 2006–11. It has been prepared following the annual in-depth review of business activity and includes an analysis of the risk involved. It is not an exhaustive analysis of the Service’s business position. For the full picture it should be read in conjunction with the Heritage Services Business Plan 2006–11

The Cabinet Members approve the updated Heritage Services Business Plan 2010-2015.

Heritage Services operates as a business unit, with annual profit targets and investment levels agreed corporately on a rolling basis.  The business strategy to achieve these targets is detailed in the Business Plan which is reviewed and revised each year. The Plan provides an integrated approach to income generation and the investment necessary to achieve it, and is aligned with the Council’s corporate aims and objectives.

The process of revising and updating the Business Plan has involved consideration of a number of different pricing, marketing and investment options. The financial and business effects of these options were modelled and evaluated. The business strategy attached recommends a coherent and integrated series of decisions that are most likely to enable the Service to meet the targets required of it by the Financial Plan and sustain this level of performance in future years.