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Corporate Plan

2005 - 2008 Delivering for Gosport

Gosport Borough Council's Mission and Values

 

To be effective and play a key role in delivering Gosport’s 2020 Vision, the Council’s mission is:

 

"To work with our community to improve everyone’s quality of life and deliver a sustainable future for the Borough."

 

To support the delivery of this mission, we intend to be recognised as an open and responsive organisation, regarded as excellent and at the centre of the community.

 

We aim to achieve this through our core values:

 

Participation - to be a listening organisation which is responsive to community needs and provides a focus for community leadership. To value customer and public opinion and to deliver customer centred services to clear standards.

 

Performance - to provide sustainable, efficient, effective, quality services whilst making best use of limited resources and maximising income streams. To underpin this with good performance management, clear priorities and a well developed approach to risk management.

 

Partnership - to work with other service providers and our community to share expertise, increase co-ordination, and access funding to achieve improved service and project delivery.

 

People - to ensure equal treatment and access for all and recognise the value of diversity. To invest in staff, using best employment practices to recruit, retain and develop staff.

 

Political Processes - to use the political processes to constructively debate and develop sustainable solutions to long term problems and strategic issues which face the community and Council.

 

These values apply to the wide range of services provided by the Council which can be summarised under these headings:

 

  • Statutory services (which have to be delivered by law);

  • Discretionary services (which have been established over a period of time in response to customer and community needs reflecting both national and local priorities); and

  • Support services which help the Council operate.

 

Strategic Priorities

 

Gosport’s strategic priorities are grouped under four main headings:

 

People, Places and Prosperity (the cornerstones of Gosport’s 2020 Vision); and Pursuit of Excellence (which embraces all of our core values).

 

Each strategic priority is shown with desired outcomes, and these are expanded on in the Corporate Action Statement.

 

People

  • Fewer instances of anti-social behaviour;

  • less crime against people;

  • less crime against property;

  • improved health facilities;

  • better leisure facilities and increased usage.

 

Places

  • Reduced congestion on the Gosport Peninsula;

  • improved access for the Gosport Peninsula;

  • a high quality waterfront environment;

  • a regenerated Rowner Village;

  • improved recycling with less waste created;

  • quality public areas and green spaces.

 

Prosperity

  • Improved social inclusion;

  • better access to decent housing;

  • improved promotion of tourism opportunities;

  • a knowledge and skills base that matches the need of local businesses;

  • increased investment in Gosport’s economy.

 

Pursuit of Excellence

  • More effective performance management;

  • enhanced customer service;

  • well trained and motivated staff delivering quality services;

  • more efficient and effective decision making processes.