Annual Action Plan 2024-2025
A Quality and Sustainable Environment
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New actions for 2024/24 are in bold.
Action number | Corporate Plan | Action 2024/25
| 2024/25 Key Milestones / Dates | Lead Officer(s) | Portfolio Holder |
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| 18 | To provide improved access to a range of health and well- being activities through a range of measures including the provision of a new Marina Centre facility acting as a hub for both indoor and outdoor well-being programmes. | Using work stream 2 of the GY Health and Wellbeing Partnership action plan identify key actions and groups to target place expansion funding. | March 2025 | Executive Director - Place | Housing, Health and Communities |
| Work with Active Norfolk to deliver an overarching physical activity strategy to deliver the wider action plan. | |||||
| Review the delivery model of the Great Yarmouth Community Investment fund, consider its impact and role. | March 2025 | Executive Director - People | Housing, Health and Communities | ||
| Complete land transaction for a new acute James Paget University Hospital. | June 2024 | Head of Property and Asset Management | Operational Property and Asset Management | ||
| 19 | To continue to develop our partnership approach to Early Help and preventative services to support our most vulnerable residents | Consolidate Great Yarmouth Health and Wellbeing Partnership workstreams in line with funder locality priorities and the Great Yarmouth and Waveney ICB Place Board. | July 2024 | Executive Director - People | Housing, Health and Communities |
| Review various 'Community Hub' offers and consolidate to strengthen our offer to residents and partner practitioners. | December 2024 | Executive Director - People | Housing, Health and Communities | ||
| Continue to forge links and facilitate Health Inequalities interventions in collaboration with the Norfolk and Waveney ICB, Adult Social Care, JPUH, Norfolk Public Health, NSFT, PCNs, GPs and ECCH. | Ongoing | Executive Director - People | Housing, Health and Communities | ||
20 | To ensure proactive use of enforcement powers and activity to ensure that the borough is a welcoming and high-quality environment creating a positive perception of Great Yarmouth. | Submit refreshed Anti-Social Behaviour Strategy and Action Plan to Cabinet for review / approval, publish and implement upon ratification. | April 2024 | Head of Environment and Sustainability | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste |
21 | With partners there is a zero tolerance to activity damaging the local environment and we are continuing to work towards reducing our carbon footprint through enhancements to walking, cycling, public transport and buildings. | Pending terms and conditions agreed, identified coastal, rural and tourism locations to have their power supply upgraded following which installations of EV Charge Points will be scheduled / completed through 24/25 | March 2025 | Head of Customer Services | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste |
Agree terms and conditions with supplier to further expand Electric Vehicle Charging Points across the Borough, initially this will be focused on GYBC car parks and on-street tourism / commercial locations. This will include a potential pilot for solar powered car port charging on a seafront car park funded through the Norfolk Investment Fund. | March 2025 | Head of Customer Services | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste | ||
Continue investigations jointly with Norfolk County Council into a suitable Supplier and locations for installation of an EV Charging Hub funded by a combination of Norfolk Investment Fund / Supplier Contribution and potential landowner. | March 2025 | Head of Customer Services | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste | ||
22 | Environmentally sustainable long-term management of our high-quality coastal environment. | Work with the Adaptation Working group to identify and propose opportunities for financing a long-term solution to Hemsby coastal erosion. | March 2025 | Head of Property and Asset Management | Tourism, Culture and Coastal Management |
Work to procure funding from the Environmental Agency to complete full business case that would outline the recommended remedial works to repair the South Denes sea wall and access to further funding. | March 2025 | Head of Property and Asset Management | Tourism, Culture and Coastal Management | ||
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| Play an important local role in enhancing environmental sustainability, using resources more efficiently, recycling more and promoting the use of 'green energy'.
| Implement Year 3 of the Council's Sustainability Strategy towards a Pathway to Net Zero by 2035 including a pilot Norfolk Net Zero Community, through the Officer Working Group. | March 2025 | Head of Environment and Sustainability | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste |
Commence Holiday Lets Trade waste service including recycling. | May 2025 | Director of Operational Services
| Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste
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Follow up on the GYBID and Visit Great Yarmouth questionnaire and work to understand the set-up requirements and costs of creating a new Commercial Service. | March 2025 | ||||
Implement domestic waste route optimisation project, including the placing of communal bins on domestic routes. | April 2024 | Director of Operational Services | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste | ||
Complete challenge of DEFRA capital funding. | April 2024 | Head of Environment and Sustainability | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste | ||
| Progress procurement and delivery plan for food waste collection roll out. | March 2025 | ||||
| Work with Norfolk Waste Partnership to ensure make use of any of efficiencies. | March 2025 | ||||
| Be the accountable body for 'Norfolk Net Zero Communities' project on behalf of the Norfolk Climate Change Partnership. Work with each of seven communities across Norfolk (Ormesby for GYBC) to gather research & feedback relating to Net Zero non-technical barriers, support positive local action, inspire behaviour change and create opportunities working with Innovate UK. | March 2025 | Executive Director - People | Environment and Sustainability, Licensing and Waste | ||
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| Ensure our high quality natural and built environments are as accessible and inclusive as possible and we seek ways to improve and enhance our compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act.
| Continue liaison with delivery partners and Historic England (HE) to address historic mismatch between HE and match funding. | September 2024
| Head of Inward Investment
| Tourism, Culture and Coastal Management
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Initiate and complete Historic England project closure process for the Heritage Action Zone (HAZ). | |||||
Conduct audit of PDFs on Council website to ensure they are at least compliant with WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines or replace with alternative documents. | December 2024 | Head of IT, Communications and Marketing | Governance, Finance and Major Projects | ||
Roll out further accessibility training to staff. | |||||
| Explore measures to increase digital inclusivity including the consideration of a digital inclusivity strategy, a technology loan scheme (joining an existing national scheme - good things foundation) and allocation of publicly accessible computers as part of 'The Place' project. | October 2024 | Head of IT, Communications and Marketing | Governance, Finance and Major Projects |
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