Our Key Priorities

This section of the plan sets out, for each of the Council’s five Strategic Service Areas and two key partnerships, the main targets they will be aiming to achieve and the main projects they will be undertaking.

We have considered a wide range of information from the City Profile Assessment, what communities have said is important to them, local and national priorities, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the National Performance Framework, as well as the Best Value Assurance Audit in 2020, before setting out the Council’s top priorities for the next five years.

We are not trying to describe everything that the Council delivers on, as each service area has a more detailed service plan that fulfils that function, sets out the contribution they will make in order to achieve our aims and ambitions for our citizens and allows elected members to scrutinise delivery and performance. There is also a range of relevant key strategies and action plans that the Council delivers.

The diagram below sets out the five strategic priorities. This incorporates the three City Plan priorities to show how we will play our part in achieving the vision for the City:

This picture shows the 5 Council Plan priorities

The following sections set out additional context about why these priorities will be the Council Leadership Team’s key focus for the next five years. They also set out key actions which services across the Council will collectively work on, and the measures which will allow progress to be tracked.