Highland Council agreed six priority commitments in its revised programme at last week’s council meeting. The six themes within the programme are: a council that champions the Highlands; a place to live; a place to thrive; a place to prosper; a welcoming place and Your Highland Council. These themes and the actions the council has agreed to reThect priorities which have emerged through the public engagement during November.
An overarching new vision has also been agreed. This is that the council will be ‘ambitious for a sustainable and connected Highland’ and will support its communities in this goal.
A corporate plan will now be developed, with outcomes linked to key performance indicators. Council Leader Margaret Davidson said the revised programme had a clear vision which underpinned the priorities which the local authority had highlighted for the future, including a new theme of ‘a council which champions the Highlands’. She continued: