Decision details

Buckinghamshire Council’s Corporate Plan set out what the Council wanted to achieve and how this would be done, addressing the challenges faced and harnessing opportunities as they presented themselves.

The current plan had been approved in February 2020.  A light-touch review of it been undertaken to reflect key events and changes in priorities since the drafting of the plan in 2019/20.  The revised plan reflected the impact of the pandemic on the Council’s priorities, together with other key developments such as new national legislation.

A draft of the refreshed corporate plan was attached at Appendix 1 to the Cabinet report.  The plan was intended to cover the period until 2025, in accordance with the current Council term, and would continue to be subject to an annual refresh.  It was proposed that following consultation on the draft with Select Committee Chairmen (recommendation 1 of the 2022 Budget Scrutiny Inquiry had been to review the Corporate Plan prior to the end of the financial year) the refreshed corporate plan 2020-25 would be submitted to full Council for approval and then published on the website.  The statistics at the ‘Buckinghamshire in numbers’ page of the plan would also be updated, where necessary, before the plan was submitted to Council.  It was also requested that at the ‘Moving forward together: valuing partnerships’ page that the dot point on ‘Increase our overall contribution to HM Treasury’ be moved to be the last of the 6 points.

RESOLVED –

(1)          That the refreshed Corporate Plan 2022 be AGREED for submission to Council.

(2)          That the Leader be authorised to make further amendments to the draft in light of feedback from Select Committee Chairmen, prior to submission of the Corporate Plan Refresh 2022 to Council.