Issue - meetings
Inclusive Growth Strategy
Meeting: 25/11/2019 - Council (Item 16)
16 Inclusive Growth Strategy 2019-2040 PDF 97 KB
This report sets out the Council’s Inclusive Growth Strategy for 2019-2040 for Council to endorse prior to final approval and publication.
Additional documents:
- 16b. Appendix 2 - Inclusive Growth Strategy Partners for Brent, item 16 PDF 1 MB
- 16c. Appendix 3 - Inclusive Growth Strategy Brent Equality Analysis, item 16 PDF 640 KB
- Webcast for Inclusive Growth Strategy 2019-2040
Decision:
AGREED
(1) To note the Inclusive Growth Strategy 2019-2040.
(2) To note that the Inclusive Growth Strategy research base, strategy documents and video would be presented to Cabinet for approval prior to publishing the strategy documents on the Council’s website, and disseminating the same to key partners and stakeholders.
Minutes:
Councillor Tatler introduced the report from the Strategic Director, Regeneration and Environment, which outlined the Council’s Inclusive Growth Strategy for 2019-2040.
In introducing the report, Councillor Tatler highlighted the rapid pace of change in relation to regeneration activity within Brent, with the Council keen to ensure that the associated benefits and opportunities provided were not only shared but the significant challenges were also recognised and understood. As a result, the Council had developed an Inclusive Growth Strategy, which had replaced its previous Regeneration Strategy and sought to build on the objective within the Borough Plan to promote longer term and pre-emptive planning around the challenges and opportunities identified.
Members were advised that work to develop the Strategy had involved input from a range of external partners and Council Departments. The Strategy aimed to underpin the key principles that growth should be inclusive and participative and had been designed to compliment the key objectives within the Motion approved at the last Council meeting relating to community wealth building.
Focussing on the content of the Strategy, Councillor Tatler, highlighted the key areas which included culture, economy, education & skills, environment, heath & wellbeing, investment and infrastructure and longer term approach identified in order to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities for inclusive growth over the next 20 years. In summing up she also took the opportunity to pay tribute to not only those partners involved but also the officers within Regeneration and Environment involved in leading on development of the strategy. Specific reference was made to Aktar Choudhury, whom she advised had returned to visit the Council specifically for consideration of this item.
As no other members indicated they wanted to speak on the report, Councillor Tatler ended by encouraging everyone to view the online video that had been produced to help residents understand the key themes within the Strategy along with the outcomes being sought and commended the report to Council.
The Mayor then put the recommendations to the vote by a show of hands and they were unanimously declared CARRIED.
It was therefore RESOLVED:
(1) To note the Inclusive Growth Strategy 2019-2040.
(2) To note that the Inclusive Growth Strategy research base, strategy documents and video would be presented to Cabinet for approval prior to publishing the strategy documents on the Council’s website, and disseminating the same to key partners and stakeholders.