Hull City Council prioritises affordable homes and regeneration
The local authority’s Council Plan has been signed off at cabinet level, setting out key areas of focus for the next 10 years.
Hull City Council said that this will include safe neighbourhoods, economic growth, climate change, and culture. The proposals will go to full council in November.
To help achieve these targets, the council is looking to accelerate investment into the regeneration of key sites across the city, create greener neighbourhoods, and provide affordable homes.
The council acknowledged the economic issues affecting construction costs, stating: “We will continue to work with the business sector to support social and economic growth and prosperity… Working with partners, we will continue to invest in city centre renewal, skills, and employment.”
Chief executive of Hull City Council, Matt Jukes, said: “The new Council Plan is about how the Council does its job. It puts us firmly at the heart of the community as we lead the work to deliver our shared vision and priorities.”
Leader of the council, Cllr Mike Ross, said: “It’s important that Hull’s council is one that listens to people and gets the basics right – and this plan will help us make that a reality.
“We want Hull to be fairer, cleaner and safer one step at a time, and this vision is another step in the journey to making that possible. From consulting people all year around to delivering on people’s priorities, the Council is keen to make our city a better place to live.”
The Council Plan, and the Community Plan of which it forms part, can be accessed in full online.
This is an exciting and ambitious plan which promotes a bottom up approach to capacity building in respect of what matters to promote the best interests of allstakeholders, especially those who are often disenfranchised by a lack of meaningful consultation, engagement to make a difference in communities where pride comes from the respect empathy and genuineness of the leaders with ambition and tenacity to bridge the gap between social inclusion and isolation in society, where sometimes, not being actively listened to, can become divisive and counter productive. Engaging with council officials in a direct, assertive passionate way about community concerns, is almost alway seen as confrontational and challenging to those with a lead role, protective of the leadership, plan, portfolio responsibility or Stretegic partnerships, and can easily be closed down/rejected and mis understood. It only together which can make a difference, break down barriers, build bigger stronger, healthier inclusive, happier, safer communities. So its action centred leadership, which I truly hope will empower us all to embrace and celebrate who we are, we matter, we are enough and deserve the very best.
By Joseph Ennis