Local accessibility action plans

To successfully prepare your Action Plan you need to transform potential actions for addressing identified priorities into focused, tightly-defined tasks with realistic time scales, defined resources and targets, and known lead delivery partners. The action plan should set out the actions over the five-year LTP period and identify where their lifespan extends beyond that period. Ideally, each of the proposed interventions should:

• Be clearly stated
• Identify the agencies responsible for delivery
• Identify the resources required (and their source)
• State the timescale for implementation and the phasing of action
• Show links to other programmes/plans (including the LTP)

The following box presents some detailed questions to consider when developing your local action plans. For the purposes of the Accessibility Strategy, you might only want to present:

• The objectives of the plan
• The proposed actions
• The responsibilities for actions and resourcing
• The timescales for action

Questions to consider for the Action Plan

• What is the proposed action?
• How much will it cost/require to resource?
• How and by whom will it be funded?
• What is the timescale for implementation?
• Who is responsible for taking it forward?
• How does it link with or depend on other actions?
• Does it add value on its own or in combination with other actions?
• Is it publicly and politically acceptable?

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