Corporate objectives and priorities

AIM - We are committed to being a listening council, providing first class services accessible to all

Approach

  • listening to and engaging with our local community
  • working with voluntary organisations, Parish Councils and Cambridgeshire County Council to improve services through partnership
  • making South Cambridgeshire District Council more open and accessible
  • achieving improved customer satisfaction with our services
  • ensuring that the Council demonstrates value for money in the way it works

AIM - we are committed to ensuring that South Cambridgeshire continues to be a safe and healthy place for you and your family

Approach

  • working closely through our Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership to reduce crime and the fear of crime
  • working with partners to combat Anti Social Behaviour
  • promoting active lifestyles and increasing opportunities for sport and recreation to improve the health of all age groups
  • understanding where health inequalities exist and focussing on areas of need

AIM - we are committed to making South Cambridgeshire a place in which residents can feel proud to live

Approach

  • making affordable housing more available to local people
  • ensuring that affordable housing is in balance with the community
  • achieving a sustainable future for the Council's housing stock
  • working with local residents to promote community cohesion and addressing the needs of the most vulnerable in the community
  • extending and encouraging the use of recycling opportunities
  • working to improve the cleanliness of our villages
  • taking account of climate change in all the services that we deliver
  • promoting low carbon living and delivering low carbon growth through the planning system

AIM - We are committed to assisting provision for local jobs for you and your family

Approach

  • working closely with local businesses
  • promoting economic development
  • using cultural activities effectively to promote tourism

AIM - We are committed to providing a voice for rural life

Approach

  • protecting existing communities, villages and the countryside
  • working more closely with Parish Councils and local Groups
  • implementing planning policies to achieve successful new communities
  • maximising planning gain for neighbouring communities
  • playing our part in improving rural services including transport links

Specific actions to deliver the aims

Each year the council adopts specific actions that will deliver the aims and approaches.

If you have any queries please email: policy.performance@scambs.gov.uk

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