At a meeting held at Redhills this morning Westmorland and Furness Council’s cabinet set out the council’s key areas of focus for the coming year in its Annual Plan for 2026/27.
The annual plan enables residents and stakeholders to understand the council’s priorities and hold the council to account on delivery of its annual plan.
Cllr Jonathan Brook, Leader of Westmorland and Furness Council, said: “This plan highlights the wide range of work happening across the council and highlights some key focus areas for the year ahead. It doesn’t attempt to capture everything we do but instead reflects where we will place our energy to make the biggest difference, deliver the best value for money and support our communities to thrive.
“Over the past year, we’ve achieved a great deal together. We were proud to continue supporting 16–19 year olds through our education travel scheme and delighted that our Adult Learning service received Outstanding and Good Ofsted ratings. With a focus on sustainable growth, we launched our new 10 year Inclusive and Green Economic Growth Strategy and took a major step forward in delivering Barrow’s Marina Village, which will create 1,350 new homes.
“After listening to our communities, we approved 24 new 20mph speed limits across our villages and towns, which will be introduced this year.
“As we begin our fourth year as Westmorland and Furness Council, we do so in a challenging financial climate. With reduced funding and increasing demand for services, it is more important than ever that we remain focused on delivering services that are efficient, effective and represent real value for money for our residents.”
The councils overview and scrutiny committee had made a number of recommendations to the draft plan that have been incorporated into the final plan after questioning the lack of detail on what would be delivered by the councils and the need for greater ambition by the council in the final year of the current council administration.
Members of the cabinet voted to recommend the approval of the Annual Plan 26/27 which will be considered at the next full council meeting on 7 May.
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