Council Performance
Three Rivers District Council’s long-held vision is that the district should remain a prosperous, safe and healthy place where people want and are able to live and work. The Council has the following priorities for the period 2009-12:
- The two themes of the Strategic Plan are the creation and maintenance of Safer and more Sustainable Communities, reflecting the priorities of the new Three Rivers Community Strategy 2006 – 2012. These cross-cutting themes do not have equal priority but neither are they separate from each other – activities in each theme influence results in another. Nevertheless, Safe and Sustainable Communities will have pre-eminence over Prosperous and Healthy Communities, whilst the present circumstances persist.
- The Council has made a conscious decision to concentrate on improving services and improving access to services for all residents, paying particular attention to those people in deprived communities.
- The Council will demonstrate extended community engagement in our planning and decision-making.
- The Council will demonstrably enhance its reputation during the life of this Plan.
- The Council will actively pursue its five strategic equality and diversity objectives.
- Finally, pursuing the theme of Sustainable Communities, Three Rivers District Council believes that it also should focus immediately on demonstrating community leadership through promotingenvironmental sustainability. The Council therefore seeks to concentrate its efforts on the theme of sustainability by creating a more sustainable environment within the district to counter climate change and mitigate environmental degradation. It will therefore:
- Continuously examine its major plans such as the Local Development Framework to ensure the sustainability of their content
- Announce a major project on home insulation that will form the cornerstone of our external effort to reduce CO2 emissions to specified levels and prove we can incorporate sustainable measures into both in future developments and the present built and operating environment
- Work to achieve ISO14001 across the Council to prove that we can reduce energy consumption in all our operations.