Sustainability Appraisal

1.17 Government guidance states that local authorities are expected to carry out a full impact appraisal of their development plan, which also covers social and economic issues. The Borough Council has done so on the Re-deposit Draft Replacement Local Plan (2005), the results of which are published separately. However, a sustainability appraisal has not been undertaken for this adopted version of the Plan as the changes made to it by the Local Plan Inquiry Inspector are binding and had to be incorporated into the Plan regardless of sustainability. As work commenced on the Plan before 21 July 2004 and it was adopted before 21 July 2006 it has not been necessary to subject the Plan to a Strategic Environmental Assessment under EU Directive 2001/42/EC.
The document is available as a pdf file here.