The proposed blocks

The four scheme phases with a “you are here” state. Sits at the top of the scheme hub and repeats on every phase page, so a reader always knows how far through they are.

Numerals are generated from array order, not authored — reordering phases renumbers them. Design: a four-cell bento row. Done sits on soft pink with a check, current is the plum tile that anchors the row, upcoming is white with the hairline.

The flagship. Numbered steps inside a phase, each with the portal status it maps to, the documents needed, and the tips that make it survivable. This is the site’s most task-critical content.

Each step renders with id="step-{n}" so pageAnchorNav can target it. Design: a white card with the numeral in a 52px soft-pink icon tile, and an inner two-cell bento — admin on the neutral band, reassurance on soft pink — so paperwork and human help are visibly separated.

Anchor navigation for the long evidence pages — The Science, Finance, Exclusions, the EU dimension. Needs a client component for scroll-spy.

Uses the existing HashScroll component, and respects prefers-reduced-motion by jumping rather than smooth-scrolling. Design: pills sit on soft pink at rest and flip to plum when their section is in view.

Moves a reader through an ordered sequence — the four scheme phases, or step ranges within them.

The “Back” / “Next” direction labels are generated, not authored, so they stay consistent across every sequence.

Year-grouped, newest first, with sources attached to each event. Carries The Science page and the EU dimension — the two places where the evidence trail is the argument.

Groups render in authored order — the editor controls chronology, the block does not sort. Design: sticky year in rose beside event cards joined by a hairline with rose dots; the note panel sits on soft pink.

Two-sided eligibility: what the scheme covers against what it does not. The single most-asked question on the site.

Design: uses the two poles of the palette — soft pink for covered, plum for not covered. The distinction is carried by the column heading and the ✓ / ✕ glyph as well, never by colour alone.

A page-level aside. The existing banner block only works inside rich text; this is its sibling for the layout builder.

Rich text is restricted to paragraphs, links and emphasis — no headings, no nested blocks. Design: 16px radius, deliberately under card scale so it reads as a note rather than a section.

The helpline strip. The audit’s loudest finding was that this pathway rendered at 2.9:1 with no focus ring; this block makes it the heaviest element on any page it appears on.

Design: solid rose pills on plum — the one deliberate exception in the system. White on rose is 5.05:1; every helpline is a real link with a visible focus ring.

Grouped service listings. The mental-health page alone needs eight of these groups; the scheme hub needs one for “Helpful contacts”.

Alternating groups sit on the neutral band so a very long page keeps its rhythm. That alternation is generated from group index, not authored.

The TD and four councillors. Queries a new People collection so a councillor’s phone number is edited once and correct everywhere.

The People collection holds name, role, area (LEA), portrait, bio, priorities[], email, phone, socials[], featured, slug and an SEO tab — and gives each person a detail page at /people/<slug>. Design: an asymmetric bento — one large feature card beside a 2×2.

Resident testimony and campaign lines. Two tones so the human register and the campaigning one never blur together.

The mark behind the text is the Tabler quote glyph rendered inline at 104px and low opacity, inheriting currentColor — not a typographic “ character, which sets inconsistently across the two typefaces.

Citations and further reading. The Science page rests on six peer-reviewed studies, and the credibility of the whole argument rests on them being visible.

Design: reuses the article prose style’s leading-zero numerals, on the neutral band so it reads as an appendix rather than body copy.

The numbers that carry the argument — 1,000+ social homes cracking, 3,150+ households waiting, 43 homeowners left behind by a cut-off date.

Design: generalises the hero’s plum stat tile into a row of two to four. One highlighted cell breaks the rhythm — the same asymmetry the hero uses.

A full-bleed photograph carrying a headline and a CTA. The audit’s sharpest criticism of the current site was that it shows none of the subject matter — cracked walls, families in limbo — on a site whose whole reason for existing is that homes are falling down. This is the block that fixes that.

Parallax is transform-based, not background-attachment: fixed — that is ignored on iOS and cannot be disabled per element. The media layer is inset -14% so the drift never exposes an edge, the scroll handler is requestAnimationFrame-throttled and passive, and the whole effect is switched off under prefers-reduced-motion. That is the only client-side JavaScript in the thirteen.

Not a new block. A third value on the style select that ctaBanner already has, for the one call to action per page that has to outrank everything else on it.

Plum panel stays the default; deep red is the escalation, and a page should carry at most one. White on #C1443A is 5.05:1, so headline and body are both plain white and the buttons invert to #A5372F-on-white at 6.4:1.

A MapLibre choropleth of Ireland showing the affected counties, with a legend and a figures table. Already written and staged on /debug — it needs promoting, not building.

To promote: add to the layout array in Pages/index.ts, to blockComponents and selfSpaced in RenderBlocks.tsx, then migrate and regenerate types. The checklist is already written in the block’s own config.ts.

Grant estimate against the published statutory rates, with the shortfall against real rebuild cost. Also staged on /debug. Shown in place on Applying to the scheme.

The rates themselves live in rates.ts as hard-coded statutory figures and are deliberately not CMS-editable — they are set by regulation, not by us, and an editable copy would drift.