Landscape Character Assessment SPD
Consultation of the draft Landscape Character SPD and Sustainability Appraisal Report has now ended. The Council is currently taking stock of the comments received and these will be fed into a final version of the SPD which will be presented to the Exective Committee with a recommendation for adoption in the near future.
The consultation documents can be viewed below. Please note that the consultation period has ended and any comments will not be taken into consideration at this stage.
Draft Landscape Character SPD
Bradford Council has prepared a draft Supplementary Planning Document for Landscape Character. This sets out the Landscape Character Assessment of the District (excluding built up areas). It provides detailed guidance on key character areas and their characteristics, and guidance for managing development and change within them. The SPD supports the saved policies NE3 and NE3A in the adopted Replacement UDP (2005).
The SPD consists of 11 documents; the first document is an introduction and outlines the background and methodology used for the draft Landscape Character SPD, with the remaining 10 documents set out in Volumes 1 to 10 outlining each of the Landscape Character Areas. Each Landscape Character Area volume provides a description of the area, setting out important features, analysis of the areas sensitivity to change, and detractors within the area. It then sets out landscape strategies for the fabric of the landscape and for development taking place within it. An additional level of detail is provided within each character area being broken down further into a number of local landscape types; these are described with an analysis of their strength of character and condition together with policy guidelines for the conservation or improvement of the local landscape type.
Sustainability Appraisal Report
Sustainability Appraisals have to be carried out on the majority of plans, policies and documents in the planning system to ensure that their implementation will not have a detrimental effect on the environment.
The Council produced a Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report for consultation in October 2007 that set out the level of detail and scope of environmental information to be included in the Sustainability Appraisal Report. Comments received on the Scoping Report have been taken into consideration and where appropriate fed into the Sustainability Appraisal Report. A full list of comments is provided within Appendix 2 of the report.
