Our policies, plans and strategies set out the way we will deliver and improve services.
Our Corporate Strategy is the key policy framework document that sets out what the council's role is, where we will be directing our resources and what we hope to achieve to improve the quality of life across our borough. It must be approved by Full Council.
Corporate strategy 2024-28 (pdf 6.2 mb)
Our corporate performance scorecard displays progress made against the objectives we set out in our Corporate Strategy.
Corporate performance scorecard
The Corporate Strategy is supported by a number of other strategies which cover specific areas. These are linked below.
The council also has a number of policy documents which set out our approach to delivery on various matters including our statutory duties. Many of these are required by government legislation or policy. For a full list of our policies, please visit the Policy Hub.
This strategy sets out our long-term vision for housing and the actions that we will take, working with our partners and government, to address our housing challenges.
This strategy sets out our ambitions to create a digital council with digitally ‘savvy’ staff and councillors and services designed to be accessible and convenient for our customers.
The key to an effective emergency response is the application of sound corporate principles and inter-agency co-operation. The purpose of this document is to set out those principles and provide a plan to enable the borough council to perform its function as a Category 1 responder.
The Engagement Strategy sets out our commitment to engaging in a meaningful and positive way with our residents, communities and stakeholders.
This strategy sets out an action plan for achieving homelessness related objectives.
Havant Borough Council plans to address the borough’s housing and economic challenges and to build on its strengths and opportunities for transformational growth.
An ambitious regeneration strategy – approved in March 2022 – identifies needs, opportunities, and a way forward.
This document was produced in response to a request from the then Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (since renamed to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government) for all councils to submit a 'productivity plan' in July 2024 and to publish that plan on our website.
The Council aims to provide its services in an easy to understand way and at a time that suits the people that really matter – our customers. This strategy outlines the proposed approach.