Sustainability Appraisal
The Council has undertaken a Sustainability Appraisal for the
Draft Core Strategy and will be carrying out a Sustainability
Appraisal of all documents within the Royal Borough's Local
Development Framework (LDF). Following a five week period of public
consultation, the Council produced, in 2005, an Addendum Scoping
Report.
The Scoping Report consists of three volumes – the report itself
and two technical appendices.
It sets out what is considered to be the appropriate context for
the appraisals that have been carried out; it established the Royal
Borough’s environmental baseline; it listed 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. The Council took the
findings of this independent appraisal into account when
progressing the LDF to the ‘preferred options’ stage of the
process.
Earlier this year, the Council produced a Sustainability
Appraisal Update Report which is a non-statutory report and aims to
inform statutory consultees and stakeholders of the SA process that
has occurred. This report also looks to identify how the SA has
influenced the preparation of the plan, providing an update to the
Scoping Report, prepared in 2005, and reporting any suggested
changes to the SA framework to undertake the appraisal of the Core
Strategy with a focus on North Kensington.
Sustainability Appraisal of the Core Strategy for the Royal
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with a focus on North
Kensington
Finally, as part of the Local Development Framework, the Council
has produced several iterations of the Sustainability
Appraisal of the Core Strategy for the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea with a focus on North Kensington.
Sustainability Appraisal of Supplementary Planning
Documents
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.