Why are we doing this?: Wrexham County Borough Council provides many services to you, whether you live here, work here or are just visiting, such as: schools, waste collection, social care, council housing, planning services, roads, museums, country parks, trading standards. The council also supports local community and economic development.
Our vision for the future is that all the people that live here are supported to fulfil their potential, prosper and achieve a high standard of well-being. We will be a strong and inclusive community leader to help make this happen.
Our Council Plan 2023-2028
Our new Council Plan will outline our priorities for the next five years to help us achieve our vision, to contribute to Wales’ well-being goals, and to ensure that everybody is treated fairly. We want to identify specific outcomes on which we can focus and against which we can measure progress. These are the outcomes which we believe will be of most benefit to our communities.
Our Council Plan is our key strategic document for the next five years and will inform decisions about how we allocate financial and other resources. Our other important services will still be delivered and details about those will be included within our internal business and service plans.
What do we want to know?: In order to develop draft priorities for our new Council Plan 2023-2028, we have looked at a range of evidence including:
- Published data and statistics, for example, Census 2021 data
- What we know about our communities from local evidence and research about people's health and well-being*
- Feedback from involvement with our communities over the past year
- Progress against our existing council priorities and other work areas
- Welsh Government priorities
Our six draft priorities, on which we want to focus our work for 2023-2028 are:
- Developing and Decarbonising our Environment
- Developing the Economy
- Ensuring a Modern and Resilient council
- Ensuring Wrexham is a Fairer and Safer Place
- Improving Education and Learning (with a focus on secondary education)
- Promoting Health and Well-being (with a focus on social services and good mental health)
We are keen to involve you in the shaping of our Council Plan and would like to know what you think.
As a strong and inclusive community leader, we want to ensure that all people who live in Wrexham County Borough are supported to achieve their potential, prosper and achieve a high standard of well-being.
This consultation will be open from 1st February to 14th March 2023.
We can be contacted by email (Telluswhatyouthink@wrexham.gov.uk), or by post (3rd Floor Annexe, The Guildhall, Wrexham LL11 1AY).. We welcome any questions, comments and feedback.
Thank you for your time and support.
What happens next?
Once this consultation closes, the results will be analysed and the findings used to develop and finalise our Council Plan 2023 – 2028, which will be presented to Council in May 2023 for approval. We will ensure that we feedback to you the results of the consultation at that time.
*For example, Wrexham Public Services Board Well-being Assessment, 2021 and the North Wales Population Needs Assessment 2022.
What we found out: The purpose of this consultation was to obtain feedback from people living and working in Wrexham County Borough on our draft council plan for 2023-2028; in order to shape our Council Plan into a meaningful plan for everyone in our communities.
During the six week consultation period, a range of methods were used to engage with people, including an online and printed survey, in-person engagement sessions in the community and opportunities to contact us by email or by phone. The consultation was widely promoted, using a variety of ways to communicate with people.
Feedback from our consultation was analysed in detail and the findings used to inform and shape our Council Plan for 2023-2028.
The findings identified a number of cross cutting themes, which we have embedded into our Council Plan priorities and outcome statements. Feedback has enabled us to define our priorities, refine outcome statements under each priority and take into account the needs and aspirations of different groups of people and geographical areas in our County Borough. Feedback from this consultation will also help us to shape the ways in which we will measure progress against our new Council Plan over the coming five years.
What difference has it made?: We would like to thank everyone who helped us to arrange and promote community engagement opportunities, distributed leaflets and posters and helped us to promote the consultation. Most of all, we would like to thank everyone for their thoughts, ideas, insight and for sharing their lived experiences in their communities with us, helping us shape our plan so that it is something that can belong to us all.
Our Council Plan 2023-2028 was agreed by full Council in December 2023 and has now been published on the council’s website.
The full feedback report on our consultation is now available to download and read.
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Consultation start date
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01 February 2023
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Consultation end date
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14 March 2023
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