Breckland Corporate Plan 2024 to 2028

We want to build on the many strengths of our local communities so that everyone can lead happy, healthy, fulfilling lives in Breckland - supporting people through targeted services that make a difference. We care, and we want to be there when people need us most. We want all our residents to enjoy quality of life, have a place they can call home in Breckland, and feel proud to be here.

We will do this by providing excellent, accessible services that recognise and support the different needs of our residents and local areas, and enable stronger, more resilient communities. As a member of the Health and Wellbeing Partnership and wider Integrated Care System, we will play our part in levelling up health inequalities and care, especially for the most vulnerable residents in our communities

What we will achieve

Through this plan we will deliver on the following key outcomes:

• To address vulnerability and care for the most disadvantaged members of our communities to improve their quality of life
• To work with partners to tackle health inequalities through our Health & Wellbeing Partnership and Integrated Care System
• To improve the health and wellbeing of Breckland's residents by providing enhanced leisure facilities and wellbeing activities
• To take a lead role in joining up partners and people to make best use of shared resources

How we will do it

Working with our partners to achieve these outcomes, we will:

• Continue to deliver our Community Grants scheme;
• Provide early help services that care for and support our vulnerable residents and prevent crisis level support;
• Prevent homelessness in the district;
• Make sure that our residents have suitable, safe, and secure homes;
• Continue to take a robust approach to Anti-Social Behaviour; and noisy neighbours;
• Work with communities to make sure we have plans to respond to - and recover from - local emergencies;
• Play our part in tackling health inequalities;
• Help to enhance leisure and wellbeing provision within the district;
• Make sure that our regulatory services continue to protect residents and visitors to Breckland;
• Help enable our communities to be resilient and thrive.
• Increase tree canopy cover by planting trees in the right locations, working with the right partners, as part of a district wide tree planting strategy;
• Increase uptake and education on waste and recycling, through our waste contract;
• Support our businesses to dispose of their waste in a sustainable way through expanding our trade waste scheme;
• Grow our approach to environmental enforcement to protect our natural environment, taking a zero-tolerance approach to such crimes;
• Continue to monitor air quality in the district;
• Make sure our larger industrial businesses are compliant with air quality standards