Council plan

The plan addresses the exciting opportunities to transform services, drive innovation and improve outcomes, but also the many significant challenges ahead due to the impact of rising costs and huge demand for our services.

Here is a brief summary of what the plan entails:

Our vision: We want to harness the power of North Yorkshire’s natural capital, unique communities and businesses, continuously improving our services to enable a good quality of life for all.

The plan is based around four key themes (each with supporting priority actions):

• support thriving places and empowered communities that live, work, visit and do business in North Yorkshire
• develop more sustainable and connected places across North Yorkshire
• ensure the people of North Yorkshire are safe, healthy and living well
• maximise the potential of North Yorkshire’s people and communities

Supported by the following overarching ambition: One Council with strong, local and customer-led services.

Our aim is to be the ‘most local large council’; therefore, locality working is another key element of our Council Plan. The plan outlines our four pillars of locality working:

• local services and access
• local accountability
• local action
• local empowerment

View the council plan

You can  view the latest version of the council plan (pdf / 5 MB). You can also  view the easy read of the council plan (docx / 11 MB). We update the plan each year.

We are also required to give 28 days notice of key decisions due to be taken. We therefore publish a forward plan of key decisions at least once a month.

In addition to the council plan, we also publish detailed strategies, plans and policies.