Property plans define your agency's medium to long-term property requirements, including what needs to be added to, changed or removed from the portfolio to support your strategic goals.
An effective property plan is part of wider strategic planning. It provides your agency with a view of:
For investment-intensive agencies, your property plan will also align with and expand on the property-related investments highlighted within your investment management system (IMS).
Quality property planning helps:
Prepare property strategies and operational plans that are linked to your investment management system (IMS).
Include a property section in your IMS. A separate property plan isn't necessary.
Use a simple property plan template – or use the Government Property Portal's 'Intentions' tab – to ensure senior leadership are aware of the future intentions for property interests.
Mandated agencies can also log their intentions for specific leases in the 'Planning' tab of the 'Leases' module in the Government Property Portal.
Property planning is valuable to a range of external stakeholders, including other government agencies, ministers, and the Corporate Centre (Public Service Commission, The Treasury, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and System/Functional Leads for Procurement, Property and ICT).
Sharing your property plan with us and other agencies helps with:
We recommend sharing your draft property plan with us. We can identify regional opportunities, provide expertise and give your agency confidence that your plan aligns with government strategy.
Property plans do not have to be shared or published, but they can be requested by select committees and under the Official Information Act.
We can: