Business Plan

If you want to know what the Planning Service sees as its priorities and what we will be doing over the next three years then look at the Planning and Regeneration Business Plan 2008 to 2011. The Business Plan contains:

An overview - containing the Planning Service mission statement, objectives, service profile, our 'golden thread', core functions, service improvement priorities, values and unit plans.

Where are we now? - containing our past performance on customer satisfaction, priority actions, service performance indicators and national best value performance indicators. It also contains our key future challenges and future risks.

Where do we want to be? - containing our contribution to corporate improvement priorities and our future service improvement indicators and targets, including those from the national indicator set that we are responsible for.

How do we get there? - containing our budget and resources.

How will we know we are getting there? - containing our future plans for improvement and key priority actions for 2008 to 2011.

To support the Business Plan, we have also produced more detailed action plans. These can be viewed on our action plans page.

Equality Impact Assessment

Equalities Impact Assessments are intended to make sure that policies contained within a document do not adversely discriminate against any equality group (based on age, disability, gender, race, faith or sexual orientation).

It does this by identifying issues of concern to the equalities groups and then assessing whether each policy addresses these issues. If an adverse impact is found then an action plan is required to address the impact.