Agenda item

This year-end update report outlines South Kesteven District Councils performance against the Corporate Plan Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the year of 2021/22.

The Organisational Development and Change Manager presented the report that outlined the end of year data performance for 2021/22.

It was noted that 11 actions were rated green, 2 were rated amber and 2 rated red.

The actions related to two corporate priorities: ‘Healthy and strong communities’ and ‘Housing that meets the needs of all residents. The actions were set out in the report, appendix 1.

One Member queried whether there was a benchmark in place for the status colours and at what point an action would move from amber to green for example.

The Organisational Development and Change Manager confirmed that actions rated amber were generally off-target from a green rating by 10% or were expected to meet milestones that were delayed. Actions rated red were falling significantly below or they were overdue and did not have an achievable timely target. Green actions had met their target or over-achieved.

A query was raised on the numerical order of the actions, as numbers appeared to be missing.

It was confirmed that some of the action responsibilities were reported to other Overview and Scrutiny Committees.

Concern was raised over the action rated red relating to partnership working with the housing market. A query was then raised on how many houses needed to be built per year in the district.

The Director of Housing and Property highlighted that the action related to delivery of housing across the district. Further work would be undertaken to benchmark the number of houses expected to be built per year.

ACTION: For the Director of Housing and Property to liaise with colleagues to establish and compare the action benchmark with other authorities on what is expected to achieve a green rated action.

Further information on the action relating to increasing the supply of high quality, sustainable Council houses was requested.

The Director of Housing and Property referred the Committee to the comments in the report from last year’s performance. Properties had been completed at Meadow Close in Bourne, and properties at Trinity Road, Stamford had been completed and allocated. The target of 15 new build Council houses had been achieved.

It was confirmed that a development at Swinegate in Grantham had been through the Planning process for development of Council properties. Flats had also been completed at Riverside in Grantham.

The Committee were reminded that the KPI’s around ‘Housing that meets the needs of all residents’ were set before the previous financial year, when there was limited certainty in terms of direction of travel within the Council’s housing service.

One Member congratulated all Officers involved within the Mental Health Group and works around looking after vulnerable residents.  

It was highlighted that successes were notable where targets were subjective rather than specific.

Specific numerical targets were requested on what the Council should expect to achieve over the next 1,2 and 3 years in relation to affordable house building by the Council and by social housing.

The Director of Housing and Property confirmed that the requested figures would be discussed at a joint scrutiny meeting of Finance, Economic Development and Corporate Services and Rural and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committees.  

AGREED:

1. Note the contents of the 2021/22 year-end performance report.

2. Members to consider if any concerns highlighted by the report require additional investigation to be added to the work programme.