Sustainability Appraisal of Consultation Document
Progress to Date
The Council carried out Sustainability
Appraisals as part of the Leigh Park Strategic Framework and Havant
Town Centre Supplementary Planning Documents. This work is
now being developed further for the Core Strategy.
The Council commissioned consultants Entec to
produce a Scoping Report for the Sustainability Appraisal of the
Core Strategy and other documents. This sets out the key
sustainability issues for Havant Borough and sets out the economic,
social and environmental objectives which should be addressed in
the core Strategy and other Local Development Documents. The
Scoping Report has been prepared in consultation with the statutory
consultees (English Nature, English Heritage, the Countryside
Agency and the Environment Agency) as well as representatives of
Havant Community Partnership, the body responsible for the
Community Strategy.
The Report identifies 16 key Sustainability Issues for Havant
Borough. They are as follows:
Identified Sustainability Issues for Havant
Borough
a. Climate Change
b. Biodiversity
c. Landscape and Townscape
d. Countryside
e. Regeneration
f. Housing
g. Employment
h. Skills / Education
i. Resource
Efficiency
j. Waste
k. Health and Well-being
l. Sport, Recreation, Arts and
Culture
m. Community Safety, Crime and the Fear
of Crime
n. Transport / Accessibility
o. Anti-Poverty
p. Equality
A description of each issue is contained in the full Scoping
Report and the non-technical summary.
The Scoping Report then sets out 18 Sustainability Objectives
for the Borough. The proposals in the Core Strategy will be
tested against these Objectives to see if the Plan is contributing
towards sustainable development.
Sustainability Objectives for Havant
Borough
1. Housing
2. Health and Well-being
3. Equality, Poverty and Social
Inclusion
4. Education and skills
5. Safety and Security
6. Liveability and Sense of
Place
7. Accessibility /
Transport
8. Flooding
9. Regeneration and Land
Use
10. Air Quality
11. Climate Change
12. Biodiversity
13. Natural Landscape
14. Built and Historic Environment
15. Waste and Natural Resources
16. Water Quality and Quantity
17. Energy
18. Economy, Opportunity and
Innovation
The Scoping Report has undergone a formal period of
consultation with the four statutory consultees and Havant
Community Partnership.
The full Sustainability Appraisal Report
Following the Scoping Report, the Council’s next
statutory requirement is to produce a final report along
with the preferred options for the Core Strategy. This will
include a very formal assessment of the Council’s preferred options
for the Core Strategy, measuring each policy against the 18
Sustainability Objectives. The assessment must show the
likely short, medium and long term effects as well as any
cumulative impacts and will necessarily be a very long
document. The Scoping Report sets out the likely structure of
the final report. An example of the detailed format of the
proposed final report follows as an appendix to this paper.
The Purpose of this Report
At this stage in the process the Issues and Options are wide
ranging and have yet to be refined into the Council’s preferred
option. Rather than be too detailed it is therefore
appropriate that this report includes notes on the likely
sustainability effects of each of the three options put forward by
this consultation so that respondents can see an assessment of the
implications of each option in sustainability terms.
The three options are described in detail in the consultation
paper. In general terms, the package of measures could be
described as:
Likely Sustainability effects of Options contained within the
Issues and Options Paper
There now follows a discussion of the likely effects of each
proposal under each of the three options.
They do not represent a full appraisal of each option but
continue the process of evaluating the options for development in
the Borough
In addition to this, the overall broad effect of implementing
all the proposals contained in each option is
discussed. Of course, there are many different combinations
of proposals which could be put forward. This appraisal
merely shows the likely cumulative effects of all the proposals
contained in each option – something that will have to be
considered when we look at the Core Strategy as a whole.
Further work on developing the Council’s Sustainability
Appraisal and assessment of options will be undertaken as work on
the Core Strategy progresses. As stated, a full Environment Report
will accompany the Council’s Preferred Options document.
For now, the likely positive and negative effects for each
option have been noted, with reference to the 18 Sustainability
Objectives listed in this paper and the Scoping Report. Where
the potential effects are unknown or uncertain these have also been
noted.