Dartford Corporate Plan
Dartford ’s Interim Corporate Plan sets out the vision and priority themes for the Council. It provides a focus for the work of the Council in 2007/08 and will be replaced with a new Corporate Plan in 2008/09 which will take the Council through 2008/09 and beyond.
The Corporate Plan takes into account Dartford’s primary role in delivering high quality services to local residents and businesses and its key role in the Thames Gateway regeneration. It is the basis of the Council’s contribution to taking forward the Community Strategy.
For each priority theme high level objectives have been set. Each objective has one or more targets and targets are measured by critical success factors. Service Plans, incorporating detailed actions to achieve the targets underpin the Corporate Plan.
Progress on meeting the targets in the Corporate Plan will be reviewed monthly by the Management Team and reported to Cabinet at least quarterly.
The Council's Vision:
To make Dartford “the place of quality and choice, a place where people choose to live, work and enjoy their leisure time.”
Service area themes
To support this vision, there are five priority service area themes. These are set out under the following chapter headings:
Citizenship and community
- To involve Dartford’s communities in the decisions which affect their lives.
- To encourage a sense of community involvement and pride in Dartford.
- To work with key partners to ensure that the benefits of regeneration are shared by existing and new communities in Dartford.
- To enable local people, especially children and young people, to make a positive contribution to life in Dartford.
Regeneration
- To work with partners to promote Dartford as a prime location for inward investment.
- To restore the vitality and viability of Dartford Town Centre.
- To ensure that Dartford residents enjoy equal access to employment and other opportunities in the Borough from regeneration.
- To ensure design excellence in all new developments.
Leisure time
- Ensure availability of and participation in a wide range of arts, cultural and sporting activities, which are available either within or near to Dartford
- To promote the heritage of the Borough
- To create high quality opportunities for leisure and recreational uses
Environment
- To maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the Borough.
- To encourage waste minimisation and recycling among households and the business sector.
- To work with partners to make Dartford a safer place to work live and visit
- To create high quality parks and open spaces
- Ensure that development in Dartford is sustainable
Housing
- To ensure that there is an appropriate range, diversity and mix of housing within the Borough.
- To ensure an effective, efficient, proactive and high performing frontline housing Landlord service
- To ensure that local people are able to obtain housing in Dartford.
- Improve standard of council housing
Corporate values
The service areas are underpinned by two corporate values. These are set out under the following chapter headings:
Quality services
- To strive for excellent quality services, equal access and to ensure value for money
- To respond in a timely and effective way to complaints or comments about our services.
Corporate health
- To manage our resources efficiently
- To measure service quality against national quality standards and best practice.
- To communicate and consult effectively with residents, businesses, the voluntary and community sector and other public agencies about services in Dartford.
- To provide appropriate information internally and regularise the communication of issues to staff
- To adopt the principles of good corporate governance, including risk management.
For further information on the Corporate Plan and other policy issues contact corporate.policy@dartford.gov.uk or telephone 01322 343418
