Draft Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report - Managing Development Delivery Development Plan Document (DPD)

The Draft Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report for the Managing Development Delivery DPD  

A draft sustainability appraisal scoping report was carried out on the Managing Development Delivery DPD as a requirment of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004). The appraisal and its appendices can be downloaded from this page.

What is a Sustainability Appraisal?

A sustainability appraisal (SA) is carried out on certain planning policies make sure they effectively balance economic, environmental and social matters.

SA also provides a powerful means of proving to decision makers, and the public, that a policy is the most appropriate given reasonable alternatives.

Under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 all Development Plan Documents have to have an SA carried out on them. The Council can also decide to carry out an SA for a Supplementary Planning Document if the Council thinks that is necessary, although it is not mandatory to do so.