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Corporate Plan: Year-end Performance Report 2016 to 2014 and Provisional Targets for 2017 to 2018

Meeting: 12/07/2017 - Licensing and Planning Policy Committee (Item 5)

5 Corporate Plan: Year-end Performance Report 2016 to 2014 and Provisional Targets for 2017 to 2018 pdf icon PDF 93 KB

This report provides a year-end update against our Key Priority Performance Targets for 2016 to 2017, under our new Corporate Plan and provisional targets for 2017 to 2018. 

Additional documents:

Decision:

The Committee:

(1)          Considered the performance reported in Annexe 1 and did not identify any areas of concern;

(2)          Reviewed and agreed targets for 2017/18 as detailed in Annexe 2 of the report and outlined in paragraph 4.1

Minutes:

The Committee received and considered a report which provided a year-end update against its Key Priority Performance Targets for 2016 to 2017 as set out in the Council’s Corporate Plan and provisional targets for 2017 to 2018.

The report confirmed that out of a total of 9 targets for 2016/17, 7 had been achieved and 2 had not been achieved.  An additional 3 indicators were regularly reported to the Committee as part of the performance monitoring report but for information purposes only.  The report identified those actions which had not been achieved and the remedial action identified, were applicable as set out in the table below:

 

Not achieved

Actions identified

Keeping the Borough clean and green

Complete the pre-submission consultation on a partial review of the Core Strategy.

A revised Local Plan Programme had been approved on 13 July 2016. The recruitment process was successful.  The pre-submission consultation on a partial review of the Core Strategy was a target for 2017/18 with a date set for 31 March 2018.

Supporting businesses and our local economy

At least 90% of other planning applications determined within 8 weeks

At year-end it was 87% - slightly missing the target by 3%.  However, this exceeded the national target of 80%.

In regards to the Committee’s targets for 2017/18, it was noted that in the context of “supporting businesses and our local economy” the measure related to how the Council could support them through the planning process by timely determination of applications.

Accordingly, the Committee:

(1)          Considered the performance reported in Annexe 1 and did not identify any areas of concern;

(2)          Reviewed and agreed targets for 2017/18 as detailed in Annexe 2, and outlined in paragraph 4.1, of the report.