COUNCIL bosses will be asked to approve the authority’s strategy for delivering services in its final year of existence.

Allerdale Borough Council’s leader and executive members will receive the Council Strategy Delivery Plan 2022/23 at a meeting on Wednesday April 20.

A report prepared for the meeting says that the decision is needed to set out the specific activity undertaken in the next year. The strategy “describes the outcomes the council aims to achieve for its communities and gives an overview of the kinds of activity it will undertake to achieve those outcomes.”

The plan has been prepared with the recovery from Covid-19 and the impending launch of Cumberland Council as a backdrop.

This is the final delivery plan that the council will produce as Allerdale, Copeland and Carlisle will become part of Cumberland by 2023.

The reorganisation of Cumbria’s councils is named in the report as a key focus of the 2022/23 Delivery Plan.

The aim during the reorganisation “will be on continuing to deliver effective and efficient front-line services as we prepare for reorganisation.

“The Council also remains focussed on helping communities and businesses renew and rebuild as the pandemic and rapidly rising costs continue to impact on lives and livelihoods. The Council will be taking forward a number of key projects and programmes to support that approach.”