Our six missions to transform Harlow:
Transform Harlow's Housing
Renew our neighbourhoods
Rebuild our town
Secure investment for Harlow's future
Protect our communities
Deliver high-performing council services
Imagine a future where every Harlow family lives in a decent home, where they are proud of the neighbourhood they live in, proud of our thriving new town centre, with access to a fantastic job or apprenticeship thanks to local businesses investing more into Harlow, where they feel safe at any time of day and know that their children with live a healthier and more prosperous life than they have, underpinned by a council that drives Harlow forwards in.
That is the future this plan will deliver. Bold and ambitious, but deliverable. We have laid the foundations for that future by delivering on our five priorities. The five pledges we made in 2023 to restore trust in the council and what it could achieve. Not everything has gone right – it never does. But we have changed the way Harlow Council works and have put us on the footing to transform our town over the next four years.
Harlow has so much going for it. We led the wave of the New Town revolution, invented fibre optics, the recipe for Baileys, and so much more. We’re the only sculpture town in the world, we sit at the heart of the UK Innovation Corridor, we’re the fastest growing area in the country and over the next four years will see the construction of a new hospital, new neighbourhoods and a new town centre, enormous Government investment and transformative private sector aspiration.
Yet, Harlow is yearning for change. The evidence tells us that, our residents tell us that. We know that there is so much more to do to achieve that vision and to ensure that every resident and business is proud of our town again.
That’s why, we’ve set out our six missions for the next four years and we passionately believe that these six missions with transform the future of Harlow. Six missions to hail a new chapter in our history. Six missions which we, and every member of our team, will deliver, for Harlow. Six missions to change the way we do things and ensure that the children of Harlow today have a safer and more prosperous future and to ensure that every resident from Arkwrights to Aylets Field, from Hilly Field to Hare Street lives in a better home, in a renewed neighbourhood, with a new town centre, with a better job and a growing local economy, safer streets, a healthier future and a council which truly delivers for them.
Our Plan will put the heart back into Harlow and transform our town.