assessment would have to accompany a planning application and any mitigation/protection required should be designed accordingly with measures set out in Conditions/S106 to guide their implementation. Chapter Summary of Responses Council’s Response SUSTAINABILITY There were 14 comments made on the APPRAISAL sustainability appraisal which are summarised below: SA alternatives of keeping the existing Plan 1) As stated in para 4.6 of the SA, the reasonable allocations or not having any allocations are not alternative assessed for residential sites are to considered to be genuine suitable alternatives. All allocate the for sites’ proposals outside of the ‘call reasonable alternatives have not been assessed. green belt and flood zone 3b. This alternative is Objective to development that contributes to fully assessed through the comprehensive ‘Promote a suitable mix of high quality housing types etc’ residential site assessment, which allows should not have been removed. Object to some identification of preferred sites. statements in para 3.9 e.g. NPPF just encourages 2) The reason why the sub-objective relating to brownfield (no priority to it). promoting development contributing to suitable mix of high quality homes and tenures was removed was that this could not be assessed through the SA process. This is an objective specific to planning applications.
assessment would have to accompany a planning application and any mitigation/protection required should be designed accordingly with measures set out in Conditions/S106 to guide their implementation. Chapter SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL Summary of Responses There were 14 comments made on the sustainability appraisal which are summarised below: Council’s Response SA alternatives of keeping the existing Plan allocations or not having any allocations are not considered to be genuine suitable alternatives. All reasonable alternatives have not been assessed. Objective to ‘Promote development that contributes to a suitable mix of high quality housing types etc’ should not have been removed. Object to some statements in para 3.9 e.g. NPPF just encourages brownfield (no priority to it). 1) As stated in para 4.6 of the SA, the reasonable alternative assessed for residential sites are to allocate the ‘call for sites’ proposals outside of the green belt and flood zone 3b. This alternative is fully assessed through the comprehensive residential site assessment, which allows identification of preferred sites. 2) The reason why the sub-objective relating to promoting development contributing to suitable mix of high quality homes and tenures was removed was that this could not be assessed through the SA process. This is an objective specific to planning applications.
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