Agenda item

To provide the Cabinet with an update on the positive progress with the Highlight Priority Actions adopted for 2022/23 towards the Council’s Corporate Plan Themes for 2020/24.

RESOLVED that the contents of the report together with the proposed realignment of particular milestones and adoption of new milestones, for particular highlight priority actions set out in the report be noted and endorsed.

Cabinet considered a report of the Leader of the Council (A.1) which provided it with an update on the positive progress with the Highlight Priority Actions adopted for 2022/23 towards the Council’s Corporate Plan Themes for 2020/24.

The Cabinet was aware that the Corporate Plan 2020/24, adopted by Council, set out the strategic direction and policy objectives for the Council over that period.  Taking into account the Corporate Plan Themes, Cabinet at its meeting held on 25 February 2022 had adopted a series of highlight priority actions for 2022/23 with individual milestones for each of those actions.  This meeting of Cabinet provided an opportunity to report on the six month position on each of those highlight priority actions and the specified milestones.

Members were reminded that circumstances generally, and with progressing individual highlight priority actions could impact on the individual milestones associated with those actions.  The Leader’s report invited Cabinet to realign certain milestones and approve new ones as set out in the Appendix to that report.

Moving forward the Quarter 3 position on the highlight priority actions for 2022/23 would be reported to Cabinet on 27 January 2023 when it was intended it would finalise its proposals for highlight priority actions for 2023/24. That meeting would also recommend the Council’s budget for 2023/24.  The final position at the end of 2022/23 in respect of the highlight priority actions for that year would be reported to Cabinet in Summer 2023/24 and it was hoped to align that report with the budget outturn position.

In considering this report, Cabinet also reflected on the range of significant matters that the Council had delivered in the previous six months.  It had been a busy six months and a range of the bids, and deliverables in that period were set out in the background section of the Leader’s report and covered matters including:-

(1)       Fifteen additional homes added into the Housing Revenue Account;

(2)       Poetry and History combine at the Jaywick Sands Workspace construction site;

(3)       Bids submitted for £40million of Government “Levelling Up” funding for Clacton-on-Sea and Harwich;

(4)       Construction work begun on the starlings site in Dovercourt;

(5)       Six TDC car parks received the Safer Parking Award Scheme Park Mark;

(6)       Round 5 of the Sportsbreak.com professional cycling Tour Series held in Clacton-on-Sea in May 2022;

(7)       Office Transformation Project completed;

(8)       29^th Clacton Air Show held in August 2022;

(9)       New gym equipment installed in Leisure Centres;

(10)    Careline growth proposals initiated;

(11)    Landlord successfully prosecuted for HMO maintenance offences;

(12)    Four Green Flags and two Blue Flags awarded; and

(13)    Gold award to TDC for its support for Armed Forces personnel.

In order that certain milestones associated with particular highlight priorities referenced in the report could be adjusted:-

It was moved by Councillor G V Guglielmi OBE, seconded by Councillor Bray and:-

RESOLVED that the contents of the report together with the proposed realignment of particular milestones and adoption of new milestones, for particular highlight priority actions set out in the report be noted and endorsed.