Sustainability Appraisal Reports
The production of Development Plan Documents
(DPD) and sometimes Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) is
carried out in tandem with the sustainability appraisal process.
The purpose of the sustainability appraisal process is to assess
the emerging
DPD
policies for their performance against environmental, economic and
social sustainability criteria, identify performance of policies or
proposals and allow for policy amendments or mitigation measures to
be implemented.
The sustainability appraisal process results
in the production of reports that accompany each publication stage
of the
DPD
process.
The reports detail the sustainability appraisal process undertaken,
assess the individual and cumulative effects of the
DPD
policies and proposals,
recommend mitigation measures as necessary and establish monitoring
mechanisms. All sustainability appraisal reports for the
LDF
documents are
available below.
The key sustainability issues within the borough and objectives for addressing these issues are set out in the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report
The Core Strategy SA considers the positive and negative effects that its policies have on social, economic and environmental considerations
An initial sustainability appraisal was produced for the Allocations DPD Issues and Options stage including an initial assessment for each of the potential site options
The council has prepared sustainability appraisals to accompany supplementary planning documents where required