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The Council will be carrying out a Sustainability Appraisal of all of the Local Development Documents which will form part of the Royal Borough’s Local Development Framework (LDF). The Council has produced an Addendum Scoping Report which will extend, and where necessary supplement, the original scoping report to the following Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).
Following a five week period of public consultation the Council has produced a Scoping Report which is the first of two formal reports to be produced as part of the Sustainability Appraisal process. The Scoping Report consists of three volumes – the report itself and two technical appendices.
The Scoping Report sets out what it considers to be the appropriate context of the appraisals that will have to be carried out; it establishes the Royal Borough’s environmental baseline; it decides on the sustainability appraisal objectives which are considered to be most appropriate for the Royal Borough; and it decides on the scope of the future appraisal.
The Council used the Scoping Report as the basis of carrying out the sustainability appraisal of the various options outlined within the Issues and Options paper.
We have worked with consultants to identify the economic, social and environmental implications of these options.
An Interim Sustainability Appraisal Report documents the findings of this options appraisal. Whilst the Council will take the findings of this independent appraisal into account when progressing the LDF to the next ‘preferred options’ stage of the process the Council is not committed to follow any particular recommendation.
View the Interim Sustainability Appraisal Report.
The Council will be preparing a number of Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) as part of the Local Development Framework. The program for their production is set out in the Local Development Scheme. The Council has produced an Addendum Scoping Report which will extend and where necessary, supplement the original scoping report to the following SPD.
To view the Addendum Scoping Report see: Addendum Scoping Report.
The Council has produced an additional Addendum Scoping Report to extend the original scoping report further to cover three additional Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) which the Council intend to produce in the near future:
To view this additional scoping report see Addendum Scoping Report August 2006 [PDF file] (File size 127 Kb). This report is out to consultation until Friday 15 September 2006.
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