Our Council Plan 2026 to 2029 sets out how we will tackle the challenges facing Stockport head on, through strong leadership, partnership, and a relentless focus on delivering for every resident.
About the council
A relentless commitment to fairness, inclusion, climate and nature underpins everything we set out to achieve in our Council Plan. Because if Stockport is going to thrive, we need all our people and places to succeed.
This updated Council Plan reflects key developments since the publication of the 2024 Council Plan. We have realigned our plan to further embed our One Stockport, One Future ambitions and our focus on addressing inequalities, cohesion and increasing demand for services.
What we do as a council
We’re responsible for providing more than 800 services to support and improve the lives of residents, businesses and visitors.
Some of the things we've done over the last year
In the last year we have:
- supported over 11,500 school applications
- acted as corporate parent for over 500 children in care
- built over 600 new homes in Stockport
- completed more than 3,000 streetlight repairs
- registered more than 7,000 births and deaths
- secured over an estimated £17 million of additional income from benefits for Stockport residents
- collected Council Tax at a rate of 97.25%
- supported more than 14,500 children through household support vouchers
- emptied more than 14 million household bins
- dealt with more than 3,200 planning applications
- dealt with over 12,000 requests for information, advice and support in Adult Social Care
- carried out more than 12,500 assessments in Adult Social Care
You can find more data on The Big Stockport Picture website.
Delivery of efficient and effective services
The continued delivery of efficient, timely and responsive effective services is at the very heart of our Council Plan. This sits alongside, and is equally important to, the delivery of our 5 big things.
This also means good customer service and working to our values. We always:
- think about Stockport first
- achieve as a team
- work with ambition
- show everyone respect
Like many local authorities across the country, we're facing severe financial pressures and growing service demand. We need to ensure our services are fit for the future, deliver good customer service and are financially sustainable.
Our key areas of focus will be:
- to continue to deliver efficient, effective and resilient essential services, alongside a greater focus on supporting people to live as independently as possible in their communities
- to be a listening organisation that puts local people at the heart of what we do, responding to and bringing in insight routinely
- to robustly review data and performance insight, helping us regularly monitor our performance and take action quickly to address challenges
- to effectively allocate and prioritise our resources, so residents get the most out of the ‘Stockport pound’. Allocating resources to reduce inequalities and support independence to achieve better outcomes for our residents