Sustainability appraisal
The sustainability appraisal (SA) is a process for assessing the social, economic and environmental impacts of the emerging local plan and aims to ensure that sustainable development is at the heart of the plan-making process.
The SA is produced alongside the local plan and suggests ways to mitigate impacts and maximise benefits. The SA process commenced in 2014 with a scoping report
A sustainability appraisal of the issues and options was produced in 2015. This assessed the local plan vision, objectives and the three spatial options against the sustainability appraisal framework. This version of the sustainability appraisal was also made available for the public consultation, and comments received have been included in the next version of the SA.
A sustainability appraisal of the publication draft local plan was produced in August 2017 and includes: