Service Area Plans

Service Area Plans (SAP) are an essential element in achieving delivery of the Council’s Corporate Business Plan 2026-27 (CBP) and four related Corporate Themes – Tackling the climate emergency and enhancing nature; Improving health and wellbeing for all; Supporting our communities through change; and Growing a fair and sustainable economy.

The CBP describes the key priorities for the Council to deliver over the period of the plan. Annual SAPs identify how the CBP will be achieved and is action-orientated, identifying resources required to deliver priorities and sets out where increasingly limited resources will be focused for the following financial year. 

Service Area Plans also include service-specific planned activities that may not be an activity identified as part of the CBP.  For example, where legislation or the regulatory framework has been revised, in which the service operates and needs to be compliant with.

Along with planned activities, Service Area Plans include a Mission Statement to document a narrative of the service area’s current position and its direction of travel over the period of the CBP, and a summary of each of the teams that form the service area and the core tasks they deliver. 

Service Area Plans 2026/27