Transformation plan

Our transformation plan (PDF, 2.3MB), submitted to government in August 2024, outlines our aims to create a financially stable organisation by improving efficiency, reducing costs and enhancing service delivery.

The council’s budget for the 2025-26 financial year has been approved and forms part of our medium-term financial strategy for 2025-29, aiming to maintain financial sustainability while protecting essential services. 

The council’s financial position remains challenging, but the approved budget and the financial measures that we have in place, alongside successful delivery of the transformation plan, are steps towards achieving a more balanced and sustainable future.  

Four programme areas

From 1 April 2025, the transformation plan has been reset to enable the council to deliver its commitments as set out in the new Cheshire East Plan for 2025-29.

There are four programme areas:

Access to services: Driving our ambition to become more efficient in delivering high-volume transactional services to residents, businesses, and visitors.

Enabling communities: Focusing on embedding community-centred, data-driven and relational approaches to provide targeted support to individuals with multiple needs or to areas of high need. 

Service delivery: Ensuring consistent service design approaches within the council to ensure that we meet statutory responsibilities and redesign services aligned to the ambitions set out within the Cheshire East Plan 2025-29.

Corporate core: Ensuring our enabling support and strategic core can meet the requirements of delivering our priorities, including the transformation plan the Cheshire East Plan 2025-29.