Ribble Valley Borough Council Corporate Plan

Following the local elections in May 2023, Ribble Valley Borough Council agreed to develop a new Corporate Plan 2023-2027.

The new Plan sets out the strategic direction of the Council over the period, providing a focus to ensure that the services we deliver meet the needs of our communities.  The Plan has a four-year scope but is reviewed annually to ensure that it continues to reflect changes to our priorities that occur over time. 

The Council cannot be effective without clarity about:

• where we want to be in the long term - Our Vision,
• what sort of organisation we want to be - Our Core Values,
• what our Goals are, and
• how we will achieve these Goals - Our Actions.

The Plan contains four corporate goals to address issues that matter most to the everyone in the Borough.  Each goal has a number of underlying medium and short term priority actions, key measures of success inform progress towards the achievement of the goal being  monitored.  

This Plan  is closely aligned to other Council Plans, and by working with our Councillors and staff to identify our values and embedding them in our daily working lives, we will achieve long lasting excellence in delivering positive outcomes.

The Corporate Plan is about improving the social, economic, environmental, and wellbeing of Ribble Valley. It will make us think more about the long term and our future generations, and how we will work better with residents, businesses, communities, and each other.

The Council's Corporate Plan  forms part of our performance management framework within the Council. Its progress is monitored and reported regularly following scrutiny by officers, Corporate Management Team and relevant Committees.

Council services also have their own specific plans which look at performance in more detail and include Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) pertinent to that service.