Minutes:
Members received the draft new Corporate Strategy 2018-23. The draft new Corporate Strategy would replace the current one which was published in 2015 and would consolidate the following plans into one document:-
- the 2015-20 Corporate Strategy;
- the Improvement Objectives, as required by the Local Government Measure 2009;
- The Wellbeing
Objectives as required by the Wellbeing of Future Generations
(Wales) Act 2015;
- Carmarthenshire County Council’s Executive Board key projects and
Programmes for the next 5 years, as set out in “Moving Forward in
Carmarthenshire: the next 5 years”.
The Committee noted that the same set of Well-being objectives for 2018/19 would be kept along with an additional objective ‘Building a Better Council and Making Better Use of Resources’.
The Committee considered the relevant well-being objectives relevant to the remit of the Environment and Public Protection Scrutiny Committee as follows:-
Well-being objective |
Actions (Reference) |
Measures (Reference) |
8 - Live Well-Help people live healthy lives
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Reference A – Eat and Breath Healthily
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A1, A2, A3, A4 and A7;
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Reference B – Physical Activity
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B4 and B5
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9 – Live Well/Age Well – Support good connections with friends, family and safer communities |
Reference B – We will promote and develop strong connections for people, places and organisations |
B1 and B2 |
Reference C – We will identify the strengths and resource within communities which can contribute to promoting an supporting the health and wellbeing of neighbours |
C4 |
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Reference D – With our partners we will continue to support Safer Communities |
All measures, D1 – D11 |
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12 – Healthy and Safety Environment – Look after the environment now and in the future |
Reference A – Address requirements of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 |
All measures, A1 – A12 |
Reference B – We monitor delivery of CCC’s Environment Act Forward Plan |
B1 |
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Reference C – We will continue to implement and promote the increased use of renewable energy |
All measures, C1 – C3 |
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Reference D – We will protect our environment and properties through delivering our Flood and Waste Management Plan; and protect and manage our coast by delivering the Shoreline Management Plan |
D1 |
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Reference E – We will deliver actions form the ‘Towards Zero Waste strategy’, to become a high recycling nation by 2025 and a zero waste nation by 2050. |
All measures, E1 - E12 |
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13 – Healthy and Safe Environment – Improve the highway and transport infrastructure and connectivity |
Reference A- We will develop the highway infrastructure to meet the priorities of our Regeneration Plan |
All measures A1 – 16 |
Reference B – We will continue to successful integrated public transport network |
B1 and B2 |
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Reference C – We will plan to redesign our school transport network to support the modernising Education Programme |
C1 |
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Reference D – We will continue to support community transport |
D1 |
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Reference E – We will meet our objectives set out in our Road Safety Strategy |
All measures E1 – E15 |
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Reference F – Modernising our vehicle fleet |
F1 |
The Director of Environment informed the Committee that some of the measures and actions within Objective 12 overlap with Community Scrutiny however the necessary information would also be provided to this Committee.
It asked how progress on the Well-being objectives would be reported, the Economic Development Manager stated that all actions and measures would be reported via the internal performance management system PIMS and returned to the relevant Scrutiny Committees on a quarterly basis.
RESOLVED TO RECOMMEND TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD that the draft new Corporate Strategy 2018-23 be endorsed.
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