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Sustainability Appraisal

Suffolk Coastal Local Development Framework logo Local Development Frameworks place a greater emphasis on the environment and sustainable development. As a result, most LDF documents will be subject to a Sustainability Appraisal (incorporating EU legislation for Strategic Environmental Assessment).

The main purpose of Sustainability Appraisal is to assess to what extent policies and proposals contribute towards meeting social, economic and environmental objectives and sustainable development. The assessment should consider what the likely impact would be and where relevant, suggest alternative or mitigating proposals.

The Sustainability Appraisal process

Some LDF documents are exempt from the Sustainability Appraisal process, (eg. Statement of Community Involvement) but each of the main documents produced will be accompanied throughout by sustainability appraisal analysis. There are five broad stages of the assessment process:

The five stages are:

  • Stage A - Setting the context and objectives, establishing the baseline and deciding on the scope (the scoping report).

  • Stage B - Developing and refining options and assessing effects.

  • Stage C - Preparing the Sustainability Appraisal report.

  • Stage D - Consultation on the preferred options plan and the Sustainability Appraisal Report.

  • Stage E - Monitoring significant effects of implementing the plan.

You can view the published Sustainability Appraisal reports relevant to each LDF document by looking at the specific webpages created for them:

Scoping reports

The Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report represents the first part of LDF document production. This is where the initial gathering and assessment of baseline data and other relevant plans and strategies takes place in order to set the context and identify local issues.

You can view the baseline data (new window PDF 824KB) and other local strategies and plans considered (new window PDF 379KB) for the Scoping Reports.

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