To provide the Cabinet with an update to the Quarter 3 position (October-December 2024) on the positive progress with the Highlight Priority Actions adopted for 2024/25 towards the Council’s Corporate Plan Themes for 2024-2028.

RESOLVED that the contents of the report be noted together with the approval of the highlighted realignment of particular milestones for particular highlight priority actions, as set out in the Leader of the Council’s report (A.1).

Cabinet considered a detailed report of the Leader of the Council (A.1) which provided it with an update to the Quarter 3 position (October-December 2024) on the positive progress with the Highlight Priority Actions adopted for 2024/25 towards the Council’s Corporate Plan Themes for 2024-2028.

In considering this report, Cabinet also reflected on the range of significant matters that the Council had delivered in the first nine months of 2024/25 which included:-

(1)     Tendring Junior Ambassadors Embrace Global Cultures with Vibrant Celebration;

(2)     Families celebrate Dovercourt Bay Lifestyles' 40th anniversary;

(3)     Top reviews for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs panto at Clacton’s Princes Theatre;

(4)     Tendring District Council named IED Social Value Champion of the Year for The Sunspot;

(5)     13 further car parks across Tendring receive top safety awards;

(6)     Tendring Awards Ceremony Honours Business Achievements; and

(7)     Polling Districts and Places Review.

Having considered, as part of the project management by Cabinet, the position in respect of the major projects which were the subject of the adopted highlight priorities of Cabinet for 2024/25:-

It was moved by Councillor M E Stephenson, seconded by Councillor I J Hendersonand:-

RESOLVED that the contents of the report be noted together with the approval of the highlighted realignment of particular milestones for particular highlight priority actions, as set out in the Leader of the Council’s report (A.1).