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Sustainability Appraisals (SAs) are a requirement of a number of planning documents that we produce. SAs help us to fulfil the objective of achieving sustainable development in preparing our planning documents. The Government's Sustainability Appraisal guidelines provide detailed information on SAs.
Following the completion of the SA scoping reports for the Affordable Housing SPD, the Natural Resource Impact Analysis SPD and the West End AAP we have decided that, for all future SA scoping reports, we will have one generic LDF scoping report. This view was reached because the SA scoping reports are very similar to each other and it was not considered appropriate or useful to continually consult on a virtually unchanged document.
The LDF SA scoping report below relates to the Core Strategy DPD, Parking Standards SPD and Planning Obligations SPD. The period for comments on the this Scoping Report has closed.
| LDF SA scoping report - main report (145kB PDF) |
| LDF SA scoping report - Appendices (451kB PDF) |
The Sustainability Appraisal of the Core Strategy is available below.
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Core Strategy - SA amended following |
| Core Strategy - SA Main text (566kB PDF) |
| Core Strategy - SA Appendices (841kB PDF) |
The West End Area Action Plan will become the key document through which the vision and objectives for the West End can be secured and implemented. The AAP will build on the existing policies of the Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016 and develop a series of principles and design concepts to guide and control development and to resist schemes contrary to the overall vision for the West End.
| West End AAP SA scoping report - Main report (442kB PDF) |
| West End AAP SA scoping report - Appendices (1056kB PDF) |
The period for comments on the West End AAP scoping report has now closed.
The Sustainability Appraisal of the West End AAP below is open for consultation from Fri 1 Sept to Fri 13 Oct 2006
| West End AAP Sustainability Appraisal (644kB PDF) |
| West End AAP SA Comment form (58kB PDF) |
The Balance of Dwellings SPD supports the policies of the Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016. A sustainability appraisal (SA) was carried out during preparation of the SPD. A final statement was prepared on adoption of the SPD in Jan 2008.
| Balance of Dwellings - SA Report (126kB PDF) |
| Balance of Dwellings - SA Consultation Report (24kB PDF) |
The Telecommunications SPD has been produced to support the policies of the Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016. A sustainability appraisal (SA) was carried out during preparation of the SPD, and the SA report published for consultation in April 2007. As part of the adoption process, a statement has been prepared summarising how sustainability issues have been integrated into the SPD, and how the SA and consultation has been taken into account.
Telecommunications SPD Sustainability Appraisal
| Telecommunications SA report (136kB PDF) |
| Telecommunications SA final statement (25kB PDF) |
The Parking Standards, Transport Assessments and Travel Plans SPD supports the policies of the Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016. A sustainability appraisal (SA) was carried out during preparation of the SPD, and a report published for consultation in October 2006. A final statement was prepared on adoption of the SPD.
Parking Standards SPD Sustainability Appraisal
| Parking Standards SPD SA report (128kB PDF) |
| Parking Standards SPD SA final statement (25kB PDF) |
The Oxford Local Plan 2001-2016 contains policies on affordable housing and on the use of natural resources. In order to support and supplement these policies we have produced two Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs).
SPDs have a statutory requirement to undergo a Sustainability Appraisal (SA). The preparation of the SA of the SPDs has involved two key stages namely:
1. The production of a SA Scoping Report setting out what the scope of the Sustainability Appraisal would be, which was issued for consultation in July 2005.
Affordable Housing SPD
Natural Resource Impact Analysis SPD
Sustainability Appraisal
| AH and NRIA SA scoping report - Main report (552kB PDF) |
| AH and NRIA SA scoping report - Appendices (882kB PDF) |
2. The production of the Sustainability Appraisal Report, which was issued with a non-technical summary on 24 Feb 2006.
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Affordable Housing SPD |
Natural Resource Impact Analysis SPD Sustainability Appraisal |
| AH SPD SA report (426kB PDF) | NRIA SPD SA report (391kB PDF) |
| AH SPD SA non-technical summary (25kB PDF) | NRIA SPD SA non-technical summary (23kB PDF) |
The consultation period for these documents has closed.
Page last reviewed 10 Nov 2008