About the Council
Leading us into the future
As our new Chief Executive, you will perform the most senior role at West Lindsey District Council. You will work closely with our Leader ensuring priorities are delivered successfully.
You will collaborate with our elected members across all political parties to ensure that the council can meet its key objectives as we move into Local Government Reorganisation. Leadership of the senior management team will be central to the role as we move towards an exciting future. Read more about our Council below.
The Council consists of 36 Councillors (also called “Members”), elected every four years. Councillors are democratically accountable to residents of their ward. The overriding duty of Councillors is to the whole community, but they have a special duty to their constituents, including those who did not vote for them.
Councillors must agree to comply with West Lindsey’s Members’ Code of Conduct to ensure high standards in the way they undertake their duties.
The Standards Sub-Committee (a Sub-Committee of the Governance and Audit Committee) trains and advises them on the Code of Conduct.
All Councillors meet together as the Council. Meetings of the Council are normally open to the public. Here, Councillors decide the Council’s overall policies and set the budget each year. The Council is the main forum for debating the state of West Lindsey, approving the Council’s annual budget and setting the policy framework within which the committees operate.
The Council appoints a Leader to give clear leadership for the Council and the local community. It is also responsible for delegating functions to committees and has a role in holding those committees to account.
Our Vision, Mission and Values
Understanding our district’s issues and challenges is central to providing a sense of purpose for all that the council intends to do over the next four years and beyond.
Our Vision and Mission
Our vision is familiar and strong and remains just as relevant today as it did when we originally adopted it four years ago. We know what success for our people, our place and our council looks like and our vision is key to achieving this.
Our vision remains central to everything we do and recognises that our district has great strengths, but also that the council has a role in intervening where certain challenges exist to ensure our people, businesses and communities are enabled to reach their full potential.
“West Lindsey is a great place to be where people, businesses and communities can thrive and reach their full potential.”
We are proud of our ambitious vision, which sends a strong and clear message about our priorities for ensuring West Lindsey is a great place to be. We know that achieving our vision requires dedication and focus on the part of our officers and elected members and we are committed to delivering this through a number of missions.
Our core values are:
- To put the customer at the centre of everything we do.
- To act as One Council
- To be business smart, act on evidence and take advantage of opportunities, thinking creatively and getting things done.
- To communicate effectively with all stakeholders.
- To have integrity in everything we do.
In order to deliver our vision and core missions, we will focus on three key themes of: Our People, Our Place and Our Council.
These are interdependent, allowing for alignment across the themes and ensuring no theme operates in isolation. Each theme contains a number of aims (the overall purpose), objectives (the steps we will take to deliver a desired outcome) and outcomes (the end result of an intervention).
Corporate Plan 2023-2027
Moving Forward Together: Our Vision for West Lindsey
As a council, our mission and central purpose is to deliver a Corporate Plan that enables the district to thrive so that people, businesses and communities are supported to reach their full potential.
In a world of complex and increasing challenges, such a vision is ambitious and we recognise that the council cannot achieve it alone. Our staff and elected members are dedicated and focused on the hard work needed to deliver the aims and objectives set out in this Plan. That is our commitment to the whole district over the next four years and beyond.
In return, we will continue to work closely with key stakeholders and other partners to ensure everybody understands our values so that we may work collectively to deliver on our priorities.
How we will deliver the Corporate Plan
- Reducing health inequalities, promoting healthy lifestyles and improving wellbeing across the district.
- Creating strong, resilient communities and promoting positive life choices for disadvantaged residents.
- Facilitating the creation of a highly skilled workforce that meets the current and future needs of the local economy.
- Putting our customers at the centre of everything we do.
- Ensuring that economic regeneration is sustainable and benefits all of our communities.
- Facilitating quality, choice and diversity in the housing market, assisting in meeting housing need and demand, and delivering high quality housing related services that support growth.
- Creating a stronger, cleaner and greener district in which to live work and socialise.
- Remaining financially sustainable and maintaining our position as a well-governed and well-managed Council.
- Being a progressive Council that gets things done.
Political composition
The council consists of 36 councillors representing 20 Wards.
Councillors can combine into political groups. The make up of the groups on the council is currently:
Liberal Democrat Administration Group 18 (17 Liberal Democrats and 1 Independent), Opposition Group 14 (13 Conservatives and 1 Independent), Lincolnshire Independent Group 2 and the Consensus Independent Group 2
The current appointments are:
- Leader of the Council – Cllr Trevor Young
- Deputy Leader of the Council – Cllr Lesley Rollings
- Chairman of the Council – Cllr Stephen Bunney
- Vice Chairman of the Council – Cllr Matthew Boles