Council performance

Performance management is important to ensure the Council is delivering the best that it can for borough residents and visitors. Taxpayers expect the Council to deliver its key priorities and day to day services in the most efficient and effective way possible, and managing performance is one of the ways in which it can do this.

The Council’s performance is reported to Cabinet on a quarterly basis. These reports include updates on the corporate priorities and present how the Council is performing against its key performance targets.

Copies of these reports can be located within the relevant committee agenda on the democracy database.

Local Government Association (LGA) Corporate Peer Challenge

During January 2024 the Local Government Association undertook an on-site Corporate Peer Challenge at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. This peer assessment looked at how well the Council was performing across a range of its areas of work.

This assessment was followed up by an on-site progress review in June 2025. The Progress Review considered the ten recommendations from the Corporate Peer Challenge under the following theme headings:

• Members and senior officers
• Key priorities and finance
• Organisational

Read the report prepared following the Progress Review: