Agenda item

This report outlines South Kesteven District Council’s performance against the Corporate Plan 2020-23 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from January-March 2024, and presents a summary of overall performance over the lifecycle of the Corporate Plan 2020-23.

This report outlined South Kesteven District Council’s performance against the Corporate Plan 2020-23 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from January-March 2024, and presented a summary of overall performance over the lifecycle of the Corporate Plan 2020-23.

The Corporate Plan 2020-23 listed nine actions under the corporate priority ‘Clean & Sustainable Environment’. These actions set the Council’s agenda for the life of that Plan. The criterium was used as a yardstick to judge overall performance against the stated actions. 6 of the 9 actions had been achieved, with explanations given for those that had been marked as ‘unachieved’.

Appendix B of the agenda pack presented the overall performance against the five actions being submitted for Q4 2023/24, as well as specific performance against the sub measures contained within those. Specific commentary was provided for each action, which was summarised as follows:

• Three of the actions were rated Green. These were actions which were on, or above target as planned.

• One of the actions was rated Amber. This was an action which was currently below the planned target.

• Zero of the actions were rated Red. These would be actions currently significantly below the planned target.

• One action was currently awaiting data from Lincolnshire County Council.

• Four of the original nine actions were either no longer reported (e.g.the Big Clean programme) or were not reported in this period (e.g. carbon accounts).

A new suite of KPIs was adopted by the Committee in March 2024, and the first report on these would be available in Q3 of this year.

During debate on this item, the following points were highlighted:

·         The building of the new Depot was rated as ‘amber’ due to the fact that the construction phase was anticipated to have started when the Corporate Plan had been drafted, whereas it had not yet commenced. There was a standing item on the agenda for the Finance and Economic Overview and Scrutiny Committee to monitor the project.

·         The Depot had planning permission and a budget in place. Officers were in discussions with the contractor to value engineer the price submission. The target date to be on site was September 2024, as per the programme; this was roughly in line with the expectations set out by Full Council and on target with the timeline presented to Cabinet.

·         Part of the planning application for the new Depot was the inclusion of a biodiversity net gain.

·         Action – when recycling rates were available from Lincolnshire County Council they would be emailed to Committee Members and reported back to a future Committee.

·         The hours and the start times attached to the Big Clean Programme had been changed, with staff unable to adhere to DEFRA best practice guidelines in this instance. However, the Big Clean Programme was a successful initiative to undertake a deep clean of streets across the District. It had been a high standard to maintain, and it was not a KPI the committee had chosen to retain.

·         There had been instances across the District where residents had been unclear on what day to put their waste out. To address this, communications with groups using Street Scene was being investigated.

·         The number of green bins collected was not a good measure of the service as the preference would be for as many people as possible to recycle or compost their green waste at home. The actual number of green bins collected in 2023/2024 was less than that seen in 2022/2023. There was a seasonal aspect to green waste collection; in those months where more plant growth was seen there was likely to be a higher level of collections.

·         The wagons collecting trade waste were not able to collect any further waste at this point, therefore any extension of this scheme would require another wagon. There was a licence for a further wagon at the existing Depot but no space to accommodate it.

The report was NOTED.