Ealing Council's vision and priorities

Ealing Council has an ambitious vision of the future for the council and the borough and clear plans to achieve it.

Our priorities
We have three priorities which directly respond to residents’ concerns and ensure high quality, cost effective public services. These are:

Cleaner streets
Safer communities
Value for money

Our vision and strategic goals
Looking to the longer-term, a shared vision has been developed with our partners on the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). This seeks to ensure that:

"In 2016 Ealing will be a successful borough at the heart of West London, where everyone has the opportunity to prosper and live fulfilling lives in communities which are safe, cohesive and engaged"

We describe our approach to achieving this as 'success through diversity', and have developed six strategic themes, each with a specific goal:

Environment housing and culture – to make Ealing a better place to live
Safety – to make Ealing one of the safest places in London
Health and independence – to reduce health inequalities and promote well-being and independence for adults and older people
Economy – to ensure that there are opportunities for all people and businesses to prosper
Children and young people – to create a great place for every child and young person to grow up
Organisational improvement – becoming a high performing organisation, focussed on the needs of its communities

Two key values cut across the delivery of all the strategic goals:

Balancing community interests - represents our commitment to ensuring that our communities are active, cohesive and engaged. We want them to be thriving and sustainable places, engaged with the delivery of local services
Reducing inequalities - is a commitment to tackling inequality and disadvantage so as to create a more inclusive borough

The borough’s Community Strategy and the council’s Corporate Plan demonstrate how the vision will be delivered.

Reality checks
The reality checks initiative helps to make sure the borough’s streets are kept clean through a series of unannounced inspections.