Issue - meetings

To present to members the final draft Vision 2025 content, which detailed where the Council would focus its resources between now and 2025.

Decision

That the final draft contents of the Vision 2025 Strategic Plan, as detailed at Appendix A to the report, be referred to Council for approval.

None.

The Vision 2025 Strategic Plan outlined the direction for the City of Lincoln Council for the period 2020-2025, forming phase two of the Council’s wider vision for the city to be delivered by 2030.

With a new strategic priority around addressing climate change added to the priorities from Vision 2020, each strategic priority continued to be underpinned by five aspirations and a range of cross-cutting projects which would help the Council and partners to deliver its vision for the city. The vision would be supported each year by an Annual Delivery Plan, detailing which of the projects would commence or be delivered during that particular year of the strategy.

It was proposed that Vision 2025 would be launched at the Lincoln Delivering a Sustainable and Inclusive Future Growth Conference in March 2020.

Councillor Nannestad stated that the inclusion of climate change as a priority was extremely important, particularly in support of the Council’s declaration of a climate emergency in 2019.

Councillor Chris Burke was pleased to see that support for people rough sleeping would continue as part of Vision 2025, stating that the Council had an excellent track record in this respect. He also complimented the fantastic work undertaken in the Sincil Bank area especially since the opening of the community hub and felt that Vision 2025 provided a very good forward plan of activities to look forward to.

Councillor Ric Metcalfe was particularly pleased to see the extent to which the four original strategic priorities of Vision 2020 had been integrated so well. The thoroughness of the revised vision was the basis of learning from Vision 2020 but also taking into account public consultation and understanding what residents, key stakeholders and partners wanted to see as priorities moving forwards. The priorities and aspirations of Vision 2025 were therefore built upon a strong evidence base.