Customer Care Standards

Our vision

We want to deliver excellence by putting customers at the heart of everything we do. To do this we will listen and be courteous to ensure we get your enquiry right the first time. Where we can not resolve your enquiry will be honest and let you know when we can. We will strive to continually improve our services and customer satisfaction.

Aims

We will aim to:

• Respond to emails within 5 working days
• Answer questions submitted through the website within 5 working days
• Respond to Govmetric feedback within 5 working days of receipt
• Answer telephone calls within 10 rings (approx. 30 seconds)
• Respond to text messages sent to the Council’s SMS service within 5 working days
• Respond to letters within 5 working days of receipt 
• See you within 5 minutes of your appointment at our offices
• Offer an appointment with an appropriate officer (if not available at the time of your visit) within 10 working days
• Have any complaint dealt with promptly and in accordance with our complaints procedures
• Respond to Freedom of Information requests in accordance with our Freedom of Information requests procedure