Issue - meetings

Joint report of the Leader and the Cabinet Member Corporate Services

The Cabinet Member Corporate Services introduced the report which summarised how the council had performed in 2011/12 in regard to the published milestones, performance indicators and outcomes set out in the 2011/12 corporate strategy action plan.  The results set out in the report highlighted a good record of achievement particularly given the current difficult circumstances. 93% of milestones had been completed at the end of the year and 83% of targets for performance indicators had been met. The report also recognised the important contribution of Cheltenham Borough Homes in helping the council to meet its targets.

In response to a question he read out the figures of the costs of planning appeals which had been circulated to members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee following their review of this report at their May meeting. These figures demonstrated that there was a downward trend in the number of planning appeals which had reduced by 2% over the last four years. 

Referring to the outcome of a clean and well maintained environment, a member added a note of caution about the focus on waste as members of the public were starting to identify problems with litter and the situation could easily tip the other way. Another member suggested that there should be more information on proposed actions for addressing any areas which had not gone well and gave the reduced numbers at the Tourist Information Centre as an example. In response the Cabinet Member said that visitor numbers to the Centre had increased and £25,000 had been allocated to incorporate the centre into the Art Gallery and Museum when it opened in 2013.

Upon a vote it was unanimously

RESOLVED that the performance review 2011-12 be approved.

Report of the Cabinet Member Corporate Services

RESOLVED that:

Cabinet endorse the report.

The Cabinet Member Corporate Services introduced the report which set out performance information relating to the delivery of corporate priorities in 2011-2012.

In terms of corporate strategy milestones 93 % had been completed at the end of the year and the Cabinet Member congratulated officers (including those from Cheltenham Borough Homes) for this achievement. Those milestones which had not been achieved included developing traffic modelling which was subject to county council funding but the bid had been successfully resubmitted. The implementation of the GO back-office system had been somewhat delayed due to testing taking longer than initially forecast. Finally in terms of climate change adaptation the approach agreed now was for the climate change and sustainability officer to work with directors of corporate services to update risk assessments and then to produce a report. Commissioned services were now required to report on adaptation to climate change.

The Cabinet Member reported that 5/32 indicators had not been met. There were no major ones and they would be retargeted in the forthcoming year. Overall, it had been a difficult but successful year.

The Leader informed Cabinet that the report would be discussed at Council on 25 June.

RESOLVED that:

Cabinet endorse the report.