Comment

Representation ID: 19768

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: East Sussex County Council

The emphasis is on mitigation (reducing green house gas emissions). Planning Policy Statement 1 (climate change supplement) requires LPAs to minimise vulnerabilities and provide resilience to climate change. Work on meeting the requirements of NI188 (key climate vulnerabilities) is at an early stage and is being undertaken jointly by all East Sussex authorities .Consequently, the timing of the core strategy and the development of climate change resilience throughout the County is misaligned. The Core Strategy would benefit from an understanding of the climate effects and impacts on key sectors and what this would mean for spatial planning policy. This would also align the draft core strategy with the objectives of the South East Plan (proposed changes) policy CC2.