Decision details

The Buckinghamshire Strategic Vision has been produced by Buckinghamshire Growth Board member. The Growth Board has approved the Vision and it is now seeking partnership organisation endorsement. The Strategic Vision can help to achieve a truly integrated and co-ordinated programme of investment in infrastructure, skills, services, and the environment and assist in creating the conditions for people to flourish and achieve their potential. This sits alongside helping to facilitate Buckinghamshire’s communities to reflect the wider determinants of health and promote wellbeing for all.

The Buckinghamshire Strategic Vision for 2050 had been developed by the Buckinghamshire Growth Board with input from partner organisations and other key stakeholders. The Growth Board had approved the most recent draft with minor changes at its December 2021 meeting and it was now ready for endorsement by its partner boards, including Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet.

The Strategic Vision was a multi-purpose document that set out the key priorities and objectives partners (including the Council) would take forward. The Strategic Vision was influential in guiding emerging strategies and played a core function in the deliverables of the Growth Board partners. It also established our identity and sets out the aspirations to Buckinghamshire’s residents and businesses, as well as regionally and nationally.

The content of The Strategic Vision was written in conjunction with Buckinghamshire’s Recovery and Growth Proposal looking closely at how the objectives aligned in delivering a Buckinghamshire that facilitates placemaking and economic growth.  The Strategic Vision for Buckinghamshire would:

-                 Express our shared ambition and focus by setting the commitment and direction to improve the economic, environmental and social health of Buckinghamshire.

-                 Tell the compelling narrative for Buckinghamshire by using our single voice to make clear our willingness to engage and deliver sustainable and ambitious clean growth. Setting out what our priorities are and where we wish to go.

-                 Set the strategic direction and overarching guidance that has previously been absent to enable the shared 2050 goal to be achieved in all future plans, strategies, and frameworks.

-                 Establish our identity nationally and in the context of the wider South East region by bringing together our successes, future opportunities, and challenges.

RESOLVED –

That the Buckinghamshire Growth Board’s Strategic Vision to 2050 be endorsed, with the Leader authorised to make any minor or typographical changes to the vision document before it was submitted to the Growth Board.