Corporate Plan 2018-2021

Corporate Plan 2018-21 www.chichester.gov.uk/corporateplan Our Vision Our Objectives Chichester District: a place where businesses can flourish; where Improve the provision of and access to suitable housing communities are active and happy; where residents and visitors can find • Increase the supply of suitable housing in the right location. fulfilling cultural, leisure and sporting activities; and where a good quality • Ensure housing is used effectively and is fit for purpose. of life is open to all. • Provide support for those that need it. Our Priorities Support our communities • Improve the provision of and access to suitable housing. • Provide support to communities and individuals who are vulnerable. • Support our communities. • Work together to help people feel safe. • Manage our built and natural environments to promote and maintain • Help our communities to be healthy and active. a positive sense of place. • Improve and support the local economy to enable appropriate Manage our built and natural environments to promote local growth. and maintain a positive sense of place • Manage the Council’s finances prudently and effectively. • Promote quality development and recognise the importance of the natural environment. • Encourage sustainable living. • Maintain clean, pleasant and safe public places. • Support the provision of essential infrastructure. • Help improve our City, Towns and Local Centres’ accessibility and attractiveness. Improve and support the local economy to enable appropriate local growth • Promote commercial activity and economic growth. • Promote Chichester District as a leading visitor and cultural destination. • Promote the City, Towns and Local Centres as vibrant places to do business. Manage the Council’s finances prudently and effectively Corporate Plan 2018-21 • Ensure the prudent use of the Council’s resources. • Provide value for money through efficient and effective service delivery. • Maintain a low rate of council tax while protecting services. 2 3 Improve the provision of and access to affordable housing Increase the supply of suitable on working to improve the poorest quality housing in the right location accommodation in the private rented sector and tackling excess cold and fuel poverty. Objectives: • A total of 140 affordable homes will be built each year, averaged over 5 years. Provide support for those that • Increase the supply of • We will expect 35% of market homes to be one need it suitable housing or two bedroom and 50% to be three bedroom. • As required by the new Homelessness in the right location. • We will maintain a five year supply of housing Reduction Act we will seek to prevent land. homelessness by working with people at risk • Ensure housing is used of becoming homeless; we will endeavour • We will maintain a five year supply of Gypsy effectively and is fit for to sustain tenancies wherever possible and and Traveller pitches. purpose. provide advice and support on a full range of • We will support parish councils in preparing housing options. and updating neighbourhood plans. • Provide support for • New Housing Benefit and Council Tax those that need it. Reduction claims will be processed within Ensure housing is used effectively 15 working days. and is fit for purpose • In order to minimise the impact of welfare • We will enable 50 homes to be improved each reforms on our most vulnerable households, year through the council’s landlord accredita- we will signpost those coming to us for tion scheme, financial assistance packages financial and debt management support and enforcement. when receiving the request or identifying the need. • We are implementing the Private Sector Housing Renewal Strategy 2016-21 that focuses 4 5 Support our communities Provide support to communities and Help our communities to be healthy individuals who are vulnerable and active Objectives: • We will work in partnership with West Sussex • We will work to achieve the outcomes set County Council and the voluntary sector to out in the ‘Improving the Health of our • Provide support to identify six communities that need additional Communities and Workforce’ action plan, support. We will assist them in identifying the which co-ordinates the Council’s resources on communities and needs of their community and support them four health priorities. These priorities are: individuals who are to acquire the skills, funding and contacts they need to achieve their goals. • Healthy lifestyles – action for the vulnerable. Community • Healthy lifestyles – action for staff • Work together to help Work together to help people feel • Housing and planning for healthy people feel safe. safe communities • Mental health and emotional wellbeing • Help our communities • We will refer to the consultation conducted by West Sussex County Council to allow us to • Via our Leisure Management Contract with to be healthy and prioritise the community safety issues raised Everyone Active, we will provide access to active. by Chichester district residents. and encourage increased participation in sport and physical activity through provision • We will work with partners to maintain low of suitable facilities and activities for the crime levels. community. Specific targets for this will be set • We will reduce the incidence of Anti-social annually. behaviour that needs to be reported to the Police, particularly that affecting repeat • 80% of referrals will maintain a positive victims. lifestyle change after 3 months as a result of referral to the Wellbeing Service. 6 7 Manage our built and natural environments to promote and maintain a positive sense of place Promote quality development and Maintain clean, pleasant and safe public recognise the importance of the natural places environment Objectives: • 90% of fly tips will be removed within 3 working days. • Ensure strategic development is completed in • Graffiti will be removed within 5 working days. • Promote quality accordance with Master Plans. • We will use a range of initiatives to reduce the development and • We will use our Authority’s Monitoring Report to amount of litter dropped across the district with recognise the importance confirm whether development complies with the regular monitoring to review effectiveness. policies of our Local Plan. of the natural environment. • 6 Conservation Area Appraisals will be completed by Support the provision of essential • Encourage sustainable 2021. infrastructure living. • We will conduct a review of our Local Plan and adopt • Facilitate the delivery of prioritised infrastructure it by 2020. in accordance with the approved Infrastructure • Maintain clean, pleasant Business Plan. Encourage sustainable living and safe public places. • Work with communities, West Sussex County Council • Using targeted communication campaigns, we will and Highways England to identify an improvement • Support the provision of encourage a reduction in residual waste of 20kg per scheme for the A27 to be put forward for the essential infrastructure household, per year. post-2020 Road Investment Strategy (RIS2). • Help improve our City, • We will aim to achieve a household recycling rate of Help improve our City, Towns and Local 50% by 2020. Towns and Local Centres’ Centres’ accessibility and attractiveness accessibility and • We will endeavour to increase the proportion of households using the garden waste collection service • Co-ordinate and support the implementation of the attractiveness. from 20% to 30% by 2020. Chichester Vision Action Plan and refresh/develop the Visions for Petworth, Selsey and Midhurst, as • We will encourage an 8.5% reduction per person in well as help improve the East Wittering Local Centre. 8 CO2 emissions from 6.8 tonnes to 6.2 tonnes by 2021. 9 Improve and support the local economy to enable appropriate local growth Promote commercial activity and Promote Chichester as a visitor and economic growth cultural destination Objectives: • Complete the Enterprise Centre to deliver 250 new • We will maintain food safety compliance by at least jobs every three years. 95% of businesses at a satisfactory rating of 3 or above. • Promote commercial • Directly support start-up businesses through activity and economic rent subsidy and monitor the success rate of • 80% of visitors surveyed will feel satisfied with our these companies to ensure survival rates after town centres. growth. three years of operation align with the South East • Work in partnership with the Destination actual rates. • Promote Chichester as a Management Organisation (DMO) to support the visitor and cultural • Promote inward investment and support the writing of a new Destination Management Plan (DMP) destination economic use and development of existing and for the visitor economy. newly designated employment land, Horticultural • Working in partnership with the cultural sector, Development Areas and other commercial land. In • Promote the City, Towns complete a cultural strategy and implementation plan. the area covered by the Chichester Local Plan (not and Local Centres as including the South Downs National Park), this will Promote the City, Towns and Local Centres vibrant places to do create an additional land/office space of 16,000 as vibrant places to do business business. sq.m of industrial/warehousing and 2,500 sq.m of office space by 2021. • Provide a programme of training and grants to improve shop fronts in order to help create the • Continue to provide the Choose Work scheme with conditions to maintain the occupancy of our city a commitment to engage

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