Solihull Council Plan 2025 - 2030 draft

Introduction

The Council Plan is the Council’s most important document. It sets out our vision for Solihull, the direction that we want to go in as a Council, how we aim to travel that journey and what we want to see at the end of it. We will continue to provide day to day services; however, the focus of this plan is on those major steps that we need to take to achieve our vision.

We are developing a new plan to cover the years 2025-2030. We want to ensure the new plan reflects the ambitions, challenges and opportunities faced by the Council, residents, businesses and other stakeholders over the coming years. To do this, we need you.

Tell us what you think about our draft plan in our consultation which runs from Tuesday 6 May to Sunday 15 June 2025. The new plan, reflecting your feedback, will be published in July 2025.

If you would like any further information, please email: councilplan@solihull.gov.uk

Have your say on the new plan

We want to hear your thoughts on our draft vision and ambitions for Solihull to help shape the final plan.

Your input is crucial for how we move forward, ensuring that our plan reflects the needs of our community and benefits from the collective insight of our residents and other stakeholders.

Once you have had a chance look at the information, you can take part in our survey via the 'survey' tab at the bottom of this page, and share your thoughts and comments on our draft plan.

Solihull Council Plan 2025-30

This plan will help us to ensure that the Council has a clear view of the future, so we can deal with the challenges facing us and take advantage of the opportunities available.

The plan serves as a guide for those who live or work in the borough, people we work with, councillors and Council employees about how we seek to navigate this journey, whilst reassuring you that our focus will remain on providing good services for everyone.

Previous engagement

In February and March 2025, we carried out initial engagement with councillors, organisations we work with, the voluntary sector, and businesses via a survey.

We sought views around our vision and the key topics for inclusion in the new plan. The topics that received the most support for the Council to focus on were:

We are now consulting more widely on our proposed vision and the ambitions that we want to focus on over the next five years.

Plan on a page

The ‘plan on a page’ is a visual summary of our new plan. It contains:

How will we know whether we are achieving our ambitions?

See details of our key activities that fall within each of these ambitions. Milestones are set for the key activities related to each ambition, and progress is reviewed by the Council’s Corporate Leadership Team each quarter.

Council officers and cabinet members review performance against the Council’s top 40 corporate performance indicators on a quarterly basis.

Progress is scrutinised at the Council’s Resources & Delivering Better Value Scrutiny Board once a year. This is a key public meeting where Councillors scrutinise the delivery of the plan and hold cabinet members and senior council officers to account.

The Council’s wider overview and scrutiny function is carried out via several other scrutiny boards, each of which have a work programme based on the Council Plan.

The Solihull Local Outcomes Framework, which has been developed to provide an overview of the health and wellbeing of the population, will tell us if we are making a difference to outcomes for residents.

Next steps

We would like you to tell us if you think our new plan is focusing on the right things by completing the survey below.

Alongside the survey, over the coming weeks we will engage with those who cannot access the survey digitally, using our existing networks and connections.

Once the survey has closed, we will collect the results and analyse the data. We will then incorporate the feedback into a final draft of the plan.

The final stage will be to seek Full Council approval and publish the plan in July 2025. We will then monitor our progress and update the plan annually, to reflect any changes and where we have got to in achieving our ambitions.