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Draft Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report

We need to ensure that any strategy we follow will help to deliver a better quality of life through ensuring it will lead to sustainable development. If we make the wrong choices now then it will be future generations who may live with a changed climate and depleted resources, and without the green space and biodiversity that contribute both to our standard of living and our quality of life. Therefore it is absolutely critical that we make the right choices now to secure a future where we can all live within our environmental limits.

Our goal is a thriving district based on a strong economy, decent homes in places with clean, safe and green public spaces, where people are able to lead healthy lives, and enjoy the environment around them, while at the same time protecting the environment.

To ensure that the land use decisions the council make are sustainable the Government have made it mandatory for us to produce a Sustainability Appraisal as part of our emerging Local Development Framework. The Sustainability Appraisal assesses the likely economic, social and environmental effects that policies of the Local Development Framework might produce.

We have now published the final Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report.

The Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report includes:

• the existing economic, social and environmental characteristics of the district;
• the environment, social and economic challenges that are important to the district; and
• the 23 sustainability objectives that we will use to assess future plans.

We will use the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report and the 23 objectives identified within in as a guide for carrying out future sustainability appraisals on the plans that we produce for the Local Development Framework. As we develop each individual plan, we will also develop a further sustainability report that will show how the plan will actually contribute to delivering sustainable communities.

Consultation and amendments

The draft Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report was consulted upon for a period of 6 weeks from 10 February 2006 to 31 March 2006. Copies were sent to the 4 statutory consultees; The Environment Agency, English Heritage, The Countryside Agency and English Nature (the latter two now form Natural England). All persons on the LDF consultation database were also notified together with local councillors and parish councils. The draft report was also taken to the council’s Planning and Economic Scrutiny panel and Cabinet. Read a summary of the comments received together with the council’s response and amendments made.

At the beginning of 2007 the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report was amended to ensure all new plans and programmes and strategies were also included.

Documents

• Sustainability Appraisal Final Scoping Report 1.6mb
• Draft Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report 1.0mb
• Sustainability Appraisal Consultation 208kb Comments received together with the council's response and amendments made.

Related information

• The existing Salisbury District Local Plan was adopted in June 2003.

Useful links

• Wiltshire and Swindon Minerals Local Plan
• Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Local Plan
• Wiltshire and Swindon Structure Plan 2016

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