Royal Navy programs from 1916 onward already looked beyond the war

Besides the Hawkins and Emerald classes, what was the Royal Navy planning for the period after World War I?

Much of its carrier and major-ship program from 1916-17 onward already assumed that the ships would shape the postwar fleet.

Hawkins- and Emerald-class cruisers were only part of a wider Royal Navy program aimed beyond the immediate war. By 1917, carrier and other large-ship construction necessarily anticipated service after the conflict because such vessels required years to complete. British analysis of the blockade gave the Admiralty a reasonably accurate sense that Germany's economy was approaching its limit. Almost every major unit ordered from 1917, and many from 1916, was therefore partly a postwar decision. Intelligence about an enemy's endurance changes procurement before peace formally arrives.