Our Council Plan describes our priorities for 2023 to 2028.
Chesterfield Borough is a great place to live, work, visit and invest. We want all our communities to share in the benefits of Chesterfield’s success, enjoying healthy and active lives. We continue to face a challenging time with significant pressures on council budgets, and an increasing demand for services. The Council Plan helps us to effectively invest and deploy our time, resources and energy to support key services and work with residents, partners and businesses to ensure that everyone in the borough can achieve their full potential.
Given the Government’s programme of local government reorganisation (LGR) , our Council Plan has been extended to April 2028, to guide our efforts and continue to put our communities first as we transition to the new authority.
The Council Plan sets out our priorities until 2028:
- Making Chesterfield a thriving borough
- Improving quality of life for local people
- Building a resilient council now and for the future
These are the activities on which we will focus our efforts for Chesterfield borough, while fully engaging in the development of the new unitary authorities, securing the best for Chesterfield's future.
The Plan doesn’t cover in detail everything we do (this is covered in our directorate plans and Council Plan delivery plan) but we have included some key facts and figures which tell you a bit more about our day-to-day activity.
Throughout the plan development we have been guided by our simple but important vision:
Putting our communities first
Chesterfield Borough Council is here to serve and support our communities including our residents, tenants, businesses, visitors, students and voluntary groups. Together we will continue to make our borough a great place to live, work, visit and invest.
How we will work
It isn’t just what we do that is important, it is the way that we do it. The council has four values that describe how we will work to achieve our vision of putting our communities first.
We are customer focused: delivering great customer service, meeting customer needs. We regularly carry out satisfaction surveys to find out what our communities and residents think of the services we provide. We engage with our residents, tenants, visitors and businesses through a wide range of groups, forums, roadshows and online, seeking their views on our services and how we can improve them. We look to deal promptly and effectively with complaints and always welcome comments and compliments.
We take a can do approach: striving to make a difference by adopting a positive attitude. Our staff come up with and deliver solutions to problems and regularly go the extra mile to ensure our communities are well served. We contribute actively to partnerships with other organisations in the borough and beyond. We manage our suppliers and contractors fairly but robustly to make sure we get the best from the public money we spend.
We act as one council, one team: proud of what we do, working together for the greater good. We value regular and open engagement with all staff and carry out regular surveys to find out how we can improve as an employer. We invest in the development of our staff, regularly attracting additional funding for training. We promote a commercial outlook within our teams, to make sure we secure value for money and look for opportunities to generate additional income that we can then invest in service delivery.
We believe in honesty and respect: embracing diversity and treating everyone fairly. The council has a strong record of going well beyond its statutory equality duties and regularly works with partners to host and promote events throughout the borough that celebrate diversity. Our staff and councillors work well together and individuals are able to express their views openly within their teams and at wider meetings and events.
Council plan document
The Council Plan is supported by the Council Plan delivery plans which are listed below. The delivery plans set out the key milestones and measures for progressing each year of the Council Plan 2023 to 2028. The Council Delivery Plan for the year April 2026 to March 2028 is currently under development.
| Chesterfield Borough Council Plan 2023 to 2028 |  (PDF 126 KB) |
| Council Plan Delivery Plan 2025 to 2026 | (PDF 390 KB) |
| Council Plan Delivery Plan 2024 to 2025 | (PDF 395 KB) |
| Council Plan Delivery Plan 2023 to 2024 | (PDF 92 KB) |