Core Strategy Sustainability Appraisal

The purpose of sustainability appraisal is to appraise the social, environmental and economic effects of strategies and policies in a development plan document or supplementary planning document from the outset of the preparation process.  This is to ensure that decisions are made that accord with sustainable development.  Being subject to a sustainability appraisal is one of the legal tests for a development plan document at independent examination.

The sustainability appraisal process incorporates a strategic environmental assessment (external link) in line with government guidance.  This concentrates purely on the environmental impacts of a plan at a strategic level.

Our latest Sustainability Report outlines the impact assessments for all our Core Strategy Policies.

• Non Technical Summary of the Sustainability Appraisal (February 2011) (.pdf, 606Kb)
• Sustainability Appraisal of Wigan Core Strategy (pre-submission consultation version) (February 2011)
• Part One (.pdf, 929Kb)
• Part Two (.pdf, 1405Kb)
• Appendix A: Workshop Attendees (.pdf, 26Kb)
• Appendix B: Policy Development (.pdf, 87Kb)
• Appendix C: Appraisal tables for spatial policies (.pdf, 199Kb)
• Appendix D: Appraisal tables for Core policies (.pdf, 624Kb)
• Appendix E: Appraisal tables for strategic sites and broad locations (.pdf, 123Kb)

You can also view our Sustainability Appraisal (previous stages) from the scoping stage, Issues and Options and Preferred Options.

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