Council Plan 2025-2030

Help us decide what our goals and priorities should be for a new council plan. This plan will guide how we work over the next five years to provide the services that matter most to our communities.

Background

Following the local elections in May, our new administration is working quicky to set its priorities, so that everyone including residents, our communities and our partners are clear on our new approach and direction.

The current version of our council plan was agreed at Council in February 2025. It is our main corporate planning document and describes how we will deliver our objectives over the next four years. It is supported by a series of corporate strategies and service plans which provide more detailed information on the actions, major projects and improvements which we are taking forward to deliver our priorities.

It is therefore important that our council plan is reviewed to make sure it meets our new administration's ambitions and objectives which will form our council plan for 2025-2030.

Proposed ambitions, objectives and priorities for a new council plan

In order to develop a new council plan we have drafted a new streamlined framework which focuses on the immediate needs of County Durham residents. This includes five ambitions which contain a number of objectives and priorities.

We have taken this approach because it is important that residents can clearly see how efficient and effective services are delivered within a financially stable council, that they can value, afford and feel proud of.

The proposed ambitions cover:

Reforming the council: make the council an efficient, effective servant of the people, ensuring taxpayers' money is spent wisely and well.
Supercharging our economy: make County Durham the best place in the North East to do business.
Building better communities: connected, safe, clean and thriving.
Caring for our people: supporting those who need it.
A practical environmental stewardship: practical, not ideological.