40 ACHIEVEMENTS
"We are delivering one of the most ambitious agendas in local government".
"We've made a good start but there's still much more to be done."
Tackling the cost-of-Living crisis
- Allocated and distributed £6.1m to support our most vulnerable residents from council and government funds
- £31,5m in Council Tax reduction was paid to 35,172 resident accounts
- 22,343 visits to the council's warm hubs
- 19,772 payments of £100 given to vulnerable families.
Homes for the future
- Almost 22,000 properties to be brought back in-house after 86% support by tenants and Leaseholders
- 227 homeless people supported into sustainable accommodation.
- Rehoused 31 families into wheelchair accessible homes via our flagship Project 120 scheme.
- Targeting the delivery of 4,000 genuinely affordable homes by 2026.
Accelerate education
- ALL primary school children eligible for a daily free school meal (£2m), rolling out to secondary schools (£3.7m)
- 400 young people to receive a Mayor's University Bursary (£600k)
- 803 young people to receive a Mayor's Education Maintenance Allowance (£321k)
- Increasing provision for SEND children
- 17,783 children supported by the Early Help Children and Family Service.
Boost culture, business, jobs, and leisure
- £800k investment in community language provision
- Rates relief for 834 businesses (£2m)
- 919 enterprises supported by the council's business programme.
- £40m invested in leisure facilities, including bringing leisure centres under council management
- 3,866 jobs, training/apprenticeship opportunities delivered.
- 1 hr free parking to help market traders
- Reintroduce 4 Parent Parking Zones.
Empower communities to fight crime
- 289 CCTV cameras have been upgraded to help capture evidence of crime and ASB (£200k)
- 7,779 additional uniformed police patrol hours funded by the council (£1.5m)
- Recruited 41 enforcement officers to protect the public (£2.9m)
- £1.6m approved to fund additional police and bring back a community constabulary.
A clean and green future
- £185k to support local businesses to be more energy efficient
- 972 trees planted
- £2.1m to improve recycling on housing estates
- £5m for electric waste vehicles and EV charging points and
- £180k for low carbon fuel supply.
Invest in public services
- 13.7m invested in youth services including one in every ward
- £4.5m for local voluntary and community sector through Mayor's Community Grants
- £2.5m to support free homecare for vulnerable adults
- £1.1m investment in 5 Resident Hubs.
A council that works and listens for everyone
- £500k invested to reopen Watney Market Idea Store
- Around 500 people seen monthly over twice-a-week Mayor's Surgeries
- You said, we did: Life-Saving Equipment installed around the borough
- Over 11k participants took part in 80 consultations
- New Town Hall opened.
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