Issue - meetings

The attached report gives an update on the progress made against a key set of strategic performance measures, which assess the Council’s progress on delivering the Corporate Strategy and key aspects of service delivery.

Cllr Kevin Guy introduced the report, moved the officer recommendation and highlighted the following achievements of the administration which have been possible due to strong financial management:

·  Building a new state of the art recycling hub

·  Investing £14m to improve and maintain highways

·  17,894 calls received by the Community Wellbeing Hub

·  Developing 6 new residents’ parking zones

·  A reduction of 66% in carbon emissions from Council buildings since 2010

·  Investing over £900k in cleaner green neighbourhoods

·  Recruiting more foster carers

·  3.100 new homes including 700 affordable homes in the last 3 years

·  Allocating more than £38m over the next 5 years to drive down carbon emissions

·  33,000 trees planted on Council and private land since 2020

·  Building the first ever Council homes for a generation

He thanked all Council staff and Cabinet members for their hard work in delivering these achievements.

Cllr Tom Davies seconded the motion.  He stated that the report contains a vast amount of interesting information about the work of the Council which demonstrates how much is going on.

RESOLVED (unanimously):

(1)  To note progress on the delivery of key aspects of the Council’s service delivery, details of which are highlighted in section 3.6 and Annex 1 of the report.

(2)  To note the level of service activity for 2021/22 highlighted in the infographic presentation at Annex 2 of the report.