Residents invited to share their views on Adur & Worthing Councils' new corporate strategy
Released: Thursday, 30 October 2025
Adur and Worthing residents are being invited to help shape the councils' new corporate strategy.
The Joint Overview and Scrutiny Committee (JOSC) will be scrutinising our new strategy, called 'Fair, Green & Local', at its next meeting and is inviting residents to take part and ask questions about the strategy during public question time.
The committee is an elected watchdog, comprising councillors from across Adur and Worthing, and is responsible for holding decision-makers - both within and outside the councils - to account.
At the next meeting, which takes place on Thursday 6th November 2025 in the Gordon Room at Worthing Town Hall from 6:30pm, the committee will be questioning Paul Brewer, the councils' new chief executive, as well as Adur leader Cllr Jeremy Gardner and Worthing leader Cllr Sophie Cox on both the incoming and outgoing corporate strategies.
Fair, Green & Local is our vision and corporate strategy for the period 2025-2028 and builds on the learnings from 'Our Plan', the previous strategy, as well as from extensive community engagement as part of our Thriving Together programme which highlighted the importance of keeping decisions local, investing in community and culture, creating better places, and focusing on young people.
The strategy revolves around three core principles - a fairer, greener and more local future - and introduces a draft delivery plan which translates these high-level priorities into a programme of tangible actions and projects.
Ahead of the meeting and submitting your questions on the strategy you can read more about it here:
The feedback from the meeting will be incorporated into the final version of the strategy, which will be presented to our Joint Strategic Committee for adoption in December.
Your questions on the strategy can be submitted to the committee by midday on Monday 3rd November 2025 by emailing:
You can attend the meeting on the night or listen back online.
(PR25-082)
Page last updated: 30 October 2025