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Performance and Risk

Meeting: 08/11/2018 - Economy Policy Development Group (Item 43)

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To receive a report from the Director of Growth & Chief Executive providing Members with an update on performance against the Corporate Plan and local service targets for 2018/19 as well as providing an update on the key business risks.

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Minutes:

The Group had before it, and NOTED, a report * from the Director of Growth and Chief Executive providing Members with an update on performance against the Corporate Plan and local service targets for 2018/19 as well as providing an update on the key business risks.

 

The following was highlighted within the report:

 

·         The number of businesses assisted was above target. Businesses had to have been assisted for a minimum of an hour to be included in this figure.

·         The Council had also been instrumental in two successful bids for LEADER funding for Mid Devon businesses.

·         The number of empty shops in Tiverton was above target. The question was asked as to why this might be the case. It was explained that these figures only ever represented a snapshot in time. If a premises was not trading on the day the data was collected then it was recorded as being empty even though it might be being refurbished or due to open shortly. It was stated that the figures had been taken in July but were improving quarter by quarter.

·         It was explained that the trend seemed to be that shops were moving away from the periphery of towns towards the centre although this was not entirely the case for Tiverton.

 

Note: * Report previously circulated; copy attached to the signed minutes.