These priorities are agreed every year with residents and inform every aspect of our Corporate Plan:

Priority 1:

• To continue to do everything we can to promote economic growth, employment and economic inclusion in partnership with others and through leading work on the growth of the cultural economy

Priority 2:

• Improve the quality of life of local people by working closely with partners to make the town safe and clean

Priority 3:

• Making sure we're efficient, customer-focussed and a good organisation to work for

Priority 4:

• Promoting equality and an inclusive, supportive community and narrowing the gap – bringing the quality of life of people in the most deprived parts of Hastings and St Leonards up to those of the rest of the town, and the town up to county and national averages

Priority 5:

• Tackling climate change and making Hastings more environmentally sustainable

Priority 6:

• Establishing a culture of openness and transparency about everything the Council does, enabling local people to hold us to account.

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