Bassetlaw District Council

About us

Bassetlaw deserves a Confident Future. A future for the District that celebrates our strong local identity, has a role for our positive and involved communities, that benefits from a safe and attractive environment, supports a successful local economy and offers opportunities to achieve for all.

This is Bassetlaw: Building a Confident Future sets out the Council’s priorities for the next three years, and the targets we are committed to meeting in each area of work.

Our priorities for the District and its residents for 2010 - 2013 are:

Improve Customer Satisfaction
Keeping residents satisfied with Bassetlaw District Council is very important to us. Our customer satisfaction levels aren’t as high as we would like them to be and we are committed to improving them.

Regenerate the Area and Improve the Environment People Live In
We believe that everybody in Bassetlaw should have the opportunity to enjoy a quality standard of living. We are committed to making Bassetlaw a district that people want to live in; a district they can be proud of; a district that is clean, green, safe and healthy.

Support a Vibrant Local Economy
Maintaining a vibrant and growing local economy in the district is vitally important. Growth will provide new opportunities for those currently out of work.

Improve the Quality and Choice of Housing
Living in a safe, warm and well-maintained home is essential to enjoying a good quality of life. Working with A1 Housing Bassetlaw Ltd, we are committed to bringing all 7000 Council owned properties up to the decent homes standard by the end of this corporate plan. By working with partners we will ensure that there is a supply of quality mixed accommodation that meets the district’s needs.

Although the Corporate Plan shows our ambitions for the next three years, it doesn’t mean we will be neglecting the ‘day to day’ services. It is business as usual for refuse collections, recycling, housing benefits, environmental health, planning, parking enforcement and all the other services we offer.

Jobs

The Council has embarked on an ambitious plan to bring about a wholesale economic and social regeneration of the area, and provide the people of Bassetlaw with excellence in public service. This is a challenging agenda, the achievement of which will depend fundamentally on our most valuable asset – Our Employees.

It is our people at work who will, on a daily basis, drive the agenda, implement the strategies and provide the attention to detail and care for the customer when delivering services.

As a consequence it is vital that our employees are recognised as the key to our success and that appropriate plans are in place to ensure that we have a capable and skilled workforce, committed to and focused on achieving the Council’s objectives.

This is why the Human Resource Service (working with people across the organisation) has developed this strategy identifying and addressing the key Human Resource issues and actions which need to be addressed, so that we can achieve our goals. It will provide a new coherent, integrated approach to people management linked to strategic objectives and is designed to help our employees to give their best and achieve their true potential.