The council provides a wide-range of services for the 254,000 residents in the London Borough of Hounslow. The council's main priorities for the borough over the next few years include creating a safer borough ensuring the borough's children and young people have a bright future creating a thriving economy with more affordable homes creating a cleaner, greener borough ensuring an active, healthy borough providing help and support to the residents who need it most and creating an ambitious council which improves the lives of residents and works in a transparent and efficient way.