Monitoring and co-ordinating the plan will be reliant on a number of stakeholders getting involved in developing and agreeing objectives and taking responsibility for their delivery. Your Plan Team will need to periodically review your plan for your place to ensure your objectives are being achieved and you still have your vision in focus.

A yearly monitoring report should be produced 12 months after the date of adoption of the plan. The monitoring report should set out the progress that has been made for all listed actions. It could include key performance indicators, such as those described in the Well-being of Future Generations Act. Think about:

• Whether the strategic aim of the vision is being met

• Whether actions are being completed on time

• The impact of actions on the wider town

• Whether any unplanned activities, benefits or further projects have come out of each action

• Whether the action has had a positive impact

In order to keep your plan relevant, it should be kept under review and a formal review of the plan should take place every 5 years. Plan review does not mean that the whole process has to restart, but it does give you the opportunity to review the evidence base and the action plan. Any plan review should be informed by community wide engagement to ensure any amendments are reflective of the community’s ambitions. Review your progress against milestones and celebrate the successes you have achieved.

You should consider how you can measure the impact of change. You could carry out an annual survey of resident or business satisfaction; count footfall regularly to look for any changes; monitor the number of visitors to a particular attraction, event or community facility; use census data to see if employment patterns change; or record shop vacancy rates or tenant types over a number of years.