Our policies, plans and strategies set out the way we will deliver and improve services.
Corporate Strategy 2024-28
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)
Corporate performance scorecard
Our corporate performance scorecard displays progress made against the objectives we set out in our Corporate Strategy.
Corporate performance scorecard
Other strategies and policies
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.
Housing Strategy 2024-29
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.
- Housing Strategy 2024-29 (pdf 420 kb)
Digital Strategy 2020-24
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.
- Digital strategy 2020-24 (pdf 370 kb)
Emergency response plan 2023-24
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.
- Emergency response plan 2023-24 (pdf 1.5 mb)
Engagement Strategy 2024-26
The Engagement Strategy sets out our commitment to engaging in a meaningful and positive way with our residents, communities and stakeholders.
- Engagement Strategy 2024-26 (pdf 495 kb)
Homelessness and Rough Sleeper Strategy 2019-24
This strategy sets out an action plan for achieving homelessness related objectives.
- Homelessness strategy 2019-24 (pdf 463 kb)
Regeneration Strategy 2022-36
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.
- Regeneration and economy strategy 2022-36 (pdf 1.6 mb)
Productivity plan 2024
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.
- Productivity plan July 2024 (pdf 271 kb)
Customer Access and Experience Strategy 2025-2028
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.