That the Council be recommended:

(i)       that the partners within the Strategic Partnership be thanked for producing the Future Torbay;

(ii)      that subject to the title being changed to 'Future Torbay' the Strategic Partnership’s Vision for Torbay as set out at Appendix 1 to the submitted report be adopted as part of the Council’s Policy Framework within the Corporate Plan; and

(iii)      that the Introduction to the Council’s Corporate Plan be amended to include the following additional paragraph:

“Partners across Torbay have come together to develop “Future Torbay” which is a long term high level plan and vision with a compelling narrative articulating the ambitions for Torbay’s future.   This Corporate Plan will provide the framework by which the Council delivers its elements of Future Torbay.”

Future Torbay better describes the purpose of this high level plan for the future ambitions of Torbay.

Alternative options were set out in the submitted report but were not discussed at the meeting.

The recommendations of the Mayor will be considered at the Council meeting on 22 June 2017.

The submitted report set out a Vision/Place Narrative for Torbay which has been developed by a group of key partners in Torbay following the Local Government Association (LGA) Corporate Peer Review recommendations.  The Future Torbay provides a compelling narrative for long term aspirations for Torbay which key partners can commit to.

It was proposed that the Council adopts the Vision/Place Narrative for Torbay for inclusion as part of the Council’s Policy Framework, within the Corporate Plan.

The Mayor considered the recommendations of the Policy Development and Decision Group (Joint Operations Team) made on 26 April 2017 and subsequently requested that the Partners who had developed the document be consulted on the proposed change of title to ‘Future Torbay’ to see if they supported the change.  Partners have been consulted and the outcome of this consultation will be reported to the Council on 22 June 2017.

The Mayors final decision on this matter is set out above.

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