A Council that works in partnership with all communities to deliver positive outcomes and engages with residents to design more efficient and effective services.
Priority: Working with partners to deliver community priorities
Our objective: Ensuring residents continue to benefit from a range of leisure, cultural and community facilities across the borough, including through unlocking the contribution of voluntary and community groups.
We will achieve this through
- Procuring a new leisure contractor to effectively run our leisure centres.
- Working with partners to support the sustainability of community arts and culture venues.
- Delivering the Community Asset Transfer Scheme to safeguard valued community assets such as centres for the community and pavilions.
Outcomes
- Leisure operator mobilised successfully to deliver sustainable leisure services.
- Residents are engaged and have access to leisure, arts, and cultural activities.
- Community assets remain available to resident groups and residents.
Success measures
- New leisure contract commences at the end of 2025 in line with programme.
- Management fee increasingly covers costs.
- Centres for the community and pavilions successfully transferred to groups.
Priority: A strong and sustainable economy with an enabling infrastructure
Our objective: Responsible planning and development to support local place-shaping and the delivery of well-designed homes of all tenures.
We will achieve this through
- Adopting a sound Local Plan that facilitates the delivery of the spatial objectives of the Corporate Plan.
- Working with partners to develop proposals for Sheerwater redevelopment.
- Adopting a Design Code to steer high quality place-making.
- Implementing a new Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) charging schedule and associated projects list.
- Increasing Member knowledge and awareness of statutory responsibilities in bringing forward a new Local Plan.
Outcomes
- A Local Plan that defines the place we want Woking to be - adequate homes and opportunities for a vibrant economy.
- Investment in the local area and new homes built and occupied.
- Realisation of capital receipts to support the Council's housing stock.
- Certainty for residents around plans for new development and infrastructure.
- CIL information available to partners.
Success measures
- New homes delivered and sale of land completed in line with timeframe.
- New Local Plan consultation stages delivered in line with project plan.
- The Council passes gateway assessments set by the Planning Inspectorate.
- Delivery of the infrastructure identified.
- Delivery of Members training programme.
Priority: Informed and consulted residents
Our objective: Reach out and listen to our communities and act on their feedback.
We will achieve this through
- Developing a tenant engagement strategy that builds on the results of our tenant satisfaction survey.
- Consult and engage residents, partners, and businesses in relation to the development of the new Local Plan.
- Maximise opportunities for co-designing services with residents.
Outcomes
- Tenant satisfaction survey provides a platform to take forward suggestions and benchmark progress.
- Increased future engagement.
- Residents, partners, and businesses given the opportunity to engage in the shaping of their communities.
- Revamped website developed taking account of resident feedback and usage.
Success measures
- Completion and adoption of a resident engagement strategy.
- Follow-up survey to evidence improved outcomes.
- Evidence of a high number of responses to statutory Local Plan engagement.