Changes to the Strategy - Sustainability Appraisal

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The consultation on the Revised Strategy for Growth is now closed.

A sustainability appraisal is a process that must be carried out during the preparation of local plans. Its role is to promote sustainable development by assessing the extent to which the emerging plan, when judged against reasonable alternatives, will help to achieve relevant environmental, economic and social objectives.

This process is an opportunity to consider ways by which the plan can contribute to improvements in environmental, social and economic conditions, as well as a means of identifying and mitigating any potential adverse effects that the plan might otherwise have. By doing so, it can help make sure that the proposals in the plan are appropriate given the reasonable alternatives. It can be used to test the evidence underpinning the plan and help to demonstrate how the tests of soundness have been met. Sustainability appraisal should be applied as an iterative process informing the development of the plan.

At the current time an ‘Interim’ Sustainability Appraisal Report is published as part of this consultation on a Revised Strategy for Growth.

You can view or download the Sustainability Appraisal Interim Report or its non-technical summary by selecting them from the document library on this page.

A sustainability appraisal is a process that must be carried out during the preparation of local plans. Its role is to promote sustainable development by assessing the extent to which the emerging plan, when judged against reasonable alternatives, will help to achieve relevant environmental, economic and social objectives.

This process is an opportunity to consider ways by which the plan can contribute to improvements in environmental, social and economic conditions, as well as a means of identifying and mitigating any potential adverse effects that the plan might otherwise have. By doing so, it can help make sure that the proposals in the plan are appropriate given the reasonable alternatives. It can be used to test the evidence underpinning the plan and help to demonstrate how the tests of soundness have been met. Sustainability appraisal should be applied as an iterative process informing the development of the plan.

At the current time an ‘Interim’ Sustainability Appraisal Report is published as part of this consultation on a Revised Strategy for Growth.

You can view or download the Sustainability Appraisal Interim Report or its non-technical summary by selecting them from the document library on this page.