An Asset Management Plan is not a building maintenance programme, although the programming of maintenance is derived from the Plan; it represents a holistic approach to resource management.
It seeks to inform a number of critical service delivery questions:
The presence of such a document represents ‘good practice’ in the management of assets and resources and will form part of the strategic planning framework for the Education Service, being updated continuously as new information becomes available.
It will provide sufficient information to enable proper judgements to be made about questions such as these and provide the Council with an objective and evidence based tool to support the decision making process.