We provide 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 and trading standards. However it isn’t enough to just keep these going, we want to focus on improvements for the future and be ambitious in our plans. Our plan is where we set out our priorities for the council for the next five years; it provides a vision and direction for what we will be working towards in the medium term by focusing on the long term future of Wrexham County Borough.
The Council Plan ensures that we are maximising our contribution to the seven national well-being goals for Wales (external link) set out in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, which seeks to improve the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales. Our Council Plan presents our well-being objectives which we call our council priorities. You can find details of how our council priorities link to the Wales well-being goals on the individual council priority pages.
The Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales) 2015 also introduced the ‘sustainable development principle’ (external link) – which requires us to act in a way which seeks to ensure that the needs of the present are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The act makes sure that in developing our council priorities we embed the ‘five ways of working’ to shape our decision making and ensure we are working in a more sustainable way, including:
- Looking to the long term.
- Taking an integrated approach.
- Involving people in decision making.
- Working in a collaborative way.
- Understanding root causes of issues to prevent them from occurring or getting worse.