Salford Corporate Plan

We are committed to creating a fairer, greener, healthier and more inclusive city for all. To achieve this vision, our new four-year Corporate Plan, This is our Salford, sets out our seven priorities that will provide the focus of the council’s work. This replaces our previous corporate plan The Great Eight as Salford continues its remarkable story of transformation.

There is already much to celebrate as a city - more well-paid jobs, new affordable and social homes, thriving local schools, award-winning green spaces, iconic infrastructure, cleaner transport, more integrated health and care and a vibrant cultural scene.

This plan aims to build on past successes and continue to find new and innovative ways to improve residents’ lives.

Find out more about the priorities and our focuses of work here:

There is little doubt that Salford has transformed in recent years. While it’s clear that Salford’s impressive growth has brought many benefits, with more highly skilled and higher paid jobs than ever before, there is still room for improvement.

It is vital we continue to take a leading role to create a more inclusive local economy by using our influence and spending power to work with local employers who are committed to giving something back to our communities. It also means ensuring local people have the skills that employers need and are better equipped to benefit from the new opportunities being created in the city.

Everyone in Salford deserves a decent and affordable place to call home. Salford has seen significant investment in a wide range of new homes to support the city’s growing population. While this housing boom is welcome, we know this is still a long way short of what is needed, and the city continues to have a large housing waiting list.

We must act on this and will continue to prioritise increasing the supply of decent and genuinely affordable housing in the city, particularly for the hundreds of children and families currently living in temporary accommodation, as well as for older and vulnerable adults in our community. 

Salford is seen as a leader in placing poverty prevention and reduction at the heart of everything we do as a city. We’re immensely proud of all that we have achieved over the past few years to boost local household incomes and have continued to invest in essential services that directly support the most vulnerable.

However, in a city where more than a third of children live in poverty, we know more needs to be done to ensure that everyone has the chance to live prosperous and fulfilling lives, and it is clear the council cannot do this alone.

Salford is a city that prides itself on its rich cultural heritage and vibrant towns and neighbourhoods – each with their own unique identity. It is home to beautiful award-winning green spaces, diverse communities, excellent transport links, and world-class cultural, creative and sporting facilities.

Significant investment will continue to be made over the next few years to create quality local places and spaces where people want to live, work, invest and visit. This includes ensuring all our neighbourhoods and town centres are attractive, safe, healthy and accessible.

All children and young people in Salford deserve to have the best start in life, and we are incredibly proud that the council’s services for children and families have been recognised by Ofsted for the significant improvements made in recent years.

Working towards becoming a Unicef Child Friendly City means making Salford a great place for children and young people to grow up and feel safe, cared for, heard and have quality opportunities to learn, work and play.

Salford is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2038. We are already doing many things to help put the city on a path to reduce its carbon footprint – from solar farms and zero emission buses, to e-scooters, low carbon housing and even Europe’s biggest living green wall. 

We will continue to take a leading role in ensuring Salford is as resilient and adaptive as possible to the effects of climate change. Everyone has a key role to play and by taking practical steps now, we are acting in the best interests of current and future generations.

We want everyone in Salford to live longer, healthier and happier lives. While good progress has been made in recent years, particularly with the integration of health and social care services ushering in a new era of joined-up care in the city, the fact remains that too many people in Salford aren't living as long as the most well off in society and spend longer living with ill-health.

Promoting good health is everyone’s business. By building on the strengths and assets of local communities and recognising cultural differences, we can do more tackle the causes of ill-health and support more people to live in good health for longer, and as independently as possible.

To find out more about how we plan to achieve these goals over the next four years, please visit: https://www.salford.gov.uk/your-council/council-and-decision-making/how-the-council-is-performing/this-is-our-salford/