Environment

An integral part of preparing the Local Development Framework is the Sustainability Appraisal process. The aim of the process is to assess the overall environmental, economic and social impact of the objectives and policies of the plans produced. The Appraisal should ensure that the Core Strategy, and in time other parts of the Local Development Framework, contribute towards achieving sustainable development.

The document below is the Sustainability Appraisal Draft Scoping Report, which forms the initial stage in producing the full appraisal. It collects together baseline data and information on a range of other plans, policies and programmes in a series of summaries.

Based on this context, draft sustainability appraisal objectives and indicators are identified and issues and problems are set out. Together, these elements form the sustainability framework, becoming a yardstick against which the social, environmental and economic effects of a plan can be tested. The framework forms the core of the full sustainability appraisal that follows at a later stage in the preparation of the Core Strategy and other plans.