That the Prioritised Council Business Plan for 2021/2022 be approved.

To ensure that the whole organisation knows the key actions which need to be taken to deliver the Council’s ambitions.

An alternative option would have been to develop a separate document containing only those actions which were highlighted as priorities. This option was dismissed as the Business Plan enabled the Council to reflect on the achievements of the past year and set the entirety of the planned actions in context.

This decision will come into force and may be implemented on 26 July 2021 unless the call-in procedure is triggered (as set out in the Standing Orders in relation to Overview and Scrutiny).

The Council’s Business Plan 2021/2022 delivery plan has taken a different format to previous iterations, to reflect the agreed Performance and Risk Framework, the Council Business Plan was approved by Cabinet on 18 May 2021. As part of the consideration on 18 May 2021, Cabinet recognised the need to identify the key priorities contained within the Business Plan, subsequently a prioritised Business Plan for 2021/2022 had been produced.

It was recognised that the amendment approved at the Cabinet meeting on 18 May 2021 needed to be incorporated into the business plan.

At the meeting, Councillor Steve Darling proposed and Councillor Cowell seconded a motion, that was agreed unanimously by the Cabinet, as set out above.

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