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A
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Affordable Warmth	Pro-active approach to ensuring that householders are able to maintain their homes at appropriate temperatures at a reasonable cost	Energy
Affordable Water	Pro-active approach to ensuring that householders are able to maintain an adequate water supply at a reasonable cost	Environment
Anti-poverty Strategy	Strategies for identifying and mitigating poverty amongst residents/tenants	Finance

B
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Brownfield Site Use	Strategies for redeveloping previously used land	Dev & Inv
Building Regulations	Requirement to meet and where possible exceed Building Regulations and standards	Dev & Inv
Business Planning	Annual and other plans to achieve business targets and objectives	Strategic Mgt.

C
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Choice Extension	Developing systems and policies that enable residents to have a choice in their housing, the neighbourhood and services	Tenants
Climate Change	Policies for addressing both prevention and mitigation of climate change effects	Environment
Community Strategies and LSPs	Strategies for developing community assets and facilities, in conjunction with partners (Local Strategic Partnerships). Can include community development	Community
Consumer Centred Policies	Policies that engage in dialogue with consumers so that their needs are considered at the heart of plans	Tenants
Corporate Strategies	Longer term plans for the associations in order to create sustainable businesses	Strategic Mgt.

D
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Dealing With Crime and Anti-social Behaviour	Plan for social support and facilities to deal with crime, its effects and prevention	Community
Decent Homes	Achievement of Decent Homes standard as set by ODPM	Asset Mgt.
Development Standards and Specifications	Establishing and improving on housing association's design and Design Guides to incorporate specifications, guidance and best practice to meet other policies	Dev & Inv
Diversity Equal/Opportunities Action Plans	Action plans for promoting and encouraging policies which prevent discrimination and encourage diversity	Strategic Mgt.

E
Policy	Description	Policy Area
EcoHomes	Target to develop homes to EcoHomes standard "very good" by a given date	Dev & Inv
Education	Policies that allow increased access to education relevant to the needs of the tenants, residents and their families	Tenants
Efficiency and Continuous Improvement	Policies and systems for efficient working, quality management and continuous improvement in the organisation and services provided	Strategic Mgt.
Employment Initiatives	Policies that actively develop opportunities for employment and/or increase the employability of residents	Tenants
Energy Efficiency	Policies for reducing the amount of energy used through conservation measures as well as through purchasing more energy efficient equipment	Energy
Energy Policies	Wide ranging energy polices which may include supply, demand management, energy efficiency, renewable energy, community heating strategies and transport issues	Energy
Environmental Management	System to identify, manage and report on environmental impacts	Environment

F
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Financial policies and Treasury Management	Code of practice for financial management to ensure that the housing association is viable, properly governed and risk managed effectively	Finance
Fuel Poverty	Addressing and reducing the problem of cost of reasonable heating for those spending more than 10% of their income on fuel bills	Energy

H
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Health and Safety	Strategies that ensure that everyone is aware of their responsibilities for health and safety and that health and safety dangers are minimised or eliminated	Tenants
Health Strategies	Policies that provide access to health care including measures that prevent ill-health and reduce the risk of poor health through housing-related illnesses and accidents, including through partnership working	Tenants
Housing Quality Indicators (HOI) and Construction Clients Charter (CCC)	Requirement to develop good quality homes as measured by HQIs and to construct them in accordance with the CCC	Dev & Inv

I
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Involvement Strategies	Strategies that enable stakeholders (especially tenants and residents) to take an active role in running the association or in contributing to plans and polices	Tenants

L
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Local Agenda 21	Community involvement in local agenda 21 activity and strategies addressing climate change and environmental initiatives	Environment

M
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Market Changes and Interventions	The initiatives such as Housing Market Restructure Pathfinders to improve housing markets in the longer term	Dev & Inv

N
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Neighbourhood Management and Coherent Approaches	Approaches to managing neighbourhoods and services on an area basis rather than by function e.g. street cleaning	Community
Neighbourhood Renewal and Regeneration	Strategy to engage in neighbourhood renewal with appropriate partners	Dev & Inv

P
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Partnerships and Working With Stakeholders	Policies and systems for developing partnerships with other organisations who have comparable goals and agendas, in order to understand and bring business benefits to all parties concerned	Strategic Mgt.
Planned Maintenance	Rolling maintenance and refurbishment strategies and programmes	Asset Mgt.
Planning Requirements	Identifying local planning requirements and delivering development plans that get planning permission	Dev & Inv
Prudent Use of Natural Resources	Policy to reduce impact on the natural environment through recycling, choice of materials and natural resources and efficiency in using them	Environment

R
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Rationalisation - Stock/Management	Individual or more than one association examining ways of rationalising their ownership or property management	Asset Mgt.
Reduce CO2 Emissions	Related to climate change and other energy polices, aims to measure and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted, mainly from electricity gas and oil consumption, from housing and transport	Energy
Reinvestment Strategies	Capital expenditure as invested in own property assets including upgrading of facilities	Asset Mgt.
Regulatory Code Compliance	Policies and systems to understand, disseminate and comply with the regulatory code	Strategic Mgt.
Rent Policies	Policies to ensure rents are dealt with according to regulation but generate sufficient income for the housing association	Finance
Reputation	Systems that ensure that activities and polices support and enhance the associations reputation as a business and as a social housing provider	Strategic Mgt.
Responsive Maintenance	Ad hoc maintenance of properties according to set priorities	Asset Mgt.
'Rethinking Construction', Egan Agenda and Procurement	Policy to play a part in modernising the construction industry and procurement methods and processes, and to measure improvement	Dev & Inv
Risk Management	Systems and policies for assessing and managing risk and preventing foreseeable incidents that could harm life, limb, quality of life, financial health or reputation of the association and/or its stakeholders	Strategic Mgt.
Rural Housing Strategies	Strategies taking account of the particular issues and needs for service provision in rural areas	Dev & Inv

S
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Stock Condition Surveys	Updating asset registers with data on house condition, energy rating, etc.	Asset Mgt.
Sustainable Communities	Developing sustainable communities and implementing approaches and action for involvement of the community in developing tangible and intangible assets	Community
Sustainable Development - Social, Economic, Environmental	Using sustainable development as a fundamental framework for addressing and reconciling social, economic and environmental priorities	Strategic Mgt.
Sustainable Development Strategy & Action Plan	Assessment of situation and development of an sustainable development strategy and action plan for the housing association	Environment
Sustainable Tenancies Strategies	Policies that develop the concept of sustainable tenancies as part of contribution to sustainable development	Tenants

T
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Tenant Income Maximisation	Strategies for ensuring that tenants obtain those benefits due to them, get employment and that living costs are manageable as far as possible	Finance
Transport	Strategies and policies that enable residents to access transport suitable for their needs, while minimising environmental and other impacts	Tenants

U
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Urban Design	Strategies taking account of the need for good urban design including crime and neighbourhood issues	Dev & Inv

W
Policy	Description	Policy Area
Waste Management Strategies	Identification of waste arisings and methods for reducing, re-using, recycling and disposing of waste	Environment

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