Strategic programmes: Building great communities
Programmes underway
- Built Environment Reform Programme
- Housing & Communities Action Plan
- Road Safety Strategy
- Legal & Justice Reform
- Transport strategy
- Highway maintainence charter
- Strategy for the Long Term Provision of Residential, Nursing and Respite Care
- Transport Strategy
Built Environment Reform Programme
- Action: Set Policy Direction: Create a Strong Evidence Base
- Target date: March 2024
- Action: Set Policy Direction: Ensure a Fit for Purpose Development Plan
- Target date: TBC
- Action: Set Policy Direction: Adopt Town Centre First Approach
- Target date: June 2024
- Action: Incentivise Investment: Investigate and Recommend a Supportive Framework
- Target date: June 2024
- Action: Incentivise Investment: Implement co-ordinated Activity for Lower Douglas
- Target date: June 2024
- Action: Incentivise Investment: Bring vacant buildings and sites back into beneficial use
- Target date: September 2023
- Revised date: TBC
- Action: Improve the Planning Process: Develop faster and more proportionate planning processes
- Target date: September 2024
- Action: Improve the Planning Process: Provide a modern and responsive service
- Target date: March 2024
- Action: Improve the Planning Process: Proactively respond to Climate Change
- Target date: March 2024
Housing & Communities Action Plan (*First year)
- Action: Modern Housing & Tenancy Law. Draft Housing & Communities Bill, Review of Conveyancing Process Including Law.
- Target date: January 2023
- Revised date: January 2024
- Action: Housing First Commission Emergency Night Shelter and stepped approach to social housing, and Homelessness law.
- Target date: March 2023 (Re-planning in progress)
- Action: Homes for all Shared equity, rent to buy, mid-rent, Social Security support for housing , Housing Market Review, key worker housing policy.
- Target date: March 2023 (Re-planning in progress)
- Action: The Right Housing Stock Building Regulations Review, Objective need of Housing, Additional Housing Needs.
- Target date: March 2023
- Revised date: September 2023 (Re-planning in progress)
- Action: Change how we work Review alternative structures, Standards of Performance, consolidation of Housing Policy.
- Target date: March 2023 (Re-planning in progress)
- Action: Vibrant Communities Empty Properties Initiative, Development Viability Study.
- Target date: July 2022 (Re-planning in progress)
Latest updates on this programme
Housing & Communities Board action plan 2022-23
Road safety Strategy
- Action: Report on and update the Island’s Road Safety Strategy ensuring this aligns with the needs of the community. Deliver any updates to the strategy with clear indicators and measurements within a refreshed action plan.
- Target date: March 2023
- Revised date: Q4 2023
Legal and Justice Reform
- Action: Undertake a review and update of the criminal justice strategy
- Target date: December 2023
- Action: Effective implementation of the Justice Reform Act 2021 and Sexual Offences and Obscene Publication Act 2021.
- Target date: December 2023
Transport strategy
- Action: Develop an integrated and socially inclusive Transport Strategy with recommendations and delivery plan which meets the needs of communities, keeps people connected in work, leisure and access to services and supports transition to Net Zero. Initial scoping was completed In June 2022.
- Target date: 2024
Strategy for the long term provision of residential, nursing and respite care
- Action: Principles for long term provision of residential, nursing and respite care
- Target date: July 2023
- Revised date: April 2024
- Action: Draft Strategy
- Target date: November 2023
- Revised date: August 2024
- Action: Public Consultation
- Target date: December 2023
- Revised date: December 2024
- Action: Strategy completed for the Long Term Provision of Residential, Nursing and Respite care.
- Target date: 2025
Highway Maintenance Charter
- Action: Final charter
- Target date: December 2022
- Revised date: April 2024
- Action: Public Rights of Way and Public Paths Report
- Target date: July 2023
- Revised date: December 2023
Completed actions