Comment

Representation ID: 19051

Received: 26/07/2007

Respondent: ATLAS

According to PPS12 a defensible SPD needs to illustrate a strong evidence base including an iterative sustainability appraisal process (SA) and due consultation process. The document should make specific reference to the topic-based studies that underpin the development, in particular set out processes that have been undertaken to reach these conclusions. The SA identifies potential conflicts between objectives, and assesses the relative merits of a self-contained new community verses a new community that forms an extension of the urban (most sustainable option). Much more could be made of the options testing process in the SPD.