Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006 (as amended August 2009)

Replacement Calderdale UDP : Adopted 25 August 2006

• Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Calderdale in Context
• Strategic and Core Part One Policies
• 3 Guiding Principles and Key Themes
  • Introduction
  • Sustainability
  • Location of Development
  • The Regeneration and Renaissance of the District
  • Sustainability Appraisal
  • Resources and Implementation
• 4 Employment, The Economy, Tourism and Regeneration
• 5 Housing
• 6 Retailing and Town Centres
• 7 Open Space, Sport and Recreation Facilities
• 8 The Built and Historic Environment
• 9 Transport
• 10 Infrastructure, Education and Community Facilities
• 11 Natural Environment and the Countryside
• 12 Environmental Protection
• 13 Minerals
• 14 Waste Management
• 15 Monitoring and Review of the Plan
• Annex A Privacy, Daylighting and Amenity Space
• Annex B Trees On or Adjacent to Development Sites
• Appendix 1 National Planning Policy
• Appendix 2 National Minerals Policy
• Appendix 3 Supporting Published Documents
• Appendix 4 Glossary of Terms
• Appendix 5 Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 6 Policy Topic Index
• Appendix 7 Policy Number Comparison
• Appendix 8 Supplementary Maps

Sustainability Appraisal

3.22 As part of the need to produce a UDP that achieves sustainable objectives in line with national, regional and local targets, a Sustainability Appraisal has been carried out. The aim of the appraisal was to ensure that sustainable development principles are integrated into the development plan and that the impacts of all proposals and policies are properly assessed and taken account of in the preparation of the UDP.

3.23 AERC (Applied Environmental Research Centre) consultants were commissioned to carry out the Sustainability Appraisal, in accordance with Government advice. The methodology used was based on advice from the former Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions , the appraisal framework developed for the review of Regional Planning Guidance, latest best practice and also encompassed the sustainability objectives of the Calderdale Local Agenda 21 Strategy. A Steering Group involving community and environmental interests, as well as Council officers assisted consultants.

3.24 The Sustainability Appraisal of the Plan was carried out in two stages. Firstly, an appraisal of the policies and proposals in the first Adopted UDP (1997) was undertaken. The results of this were incorporated into a re-written draft Replacement UDP. Secondly, the new and revised policies and proposals of the draft Replacement Plan were subject to a further appraisal. The policies and proposals were further refined as a result of the second appraisal and were incorporated into the Replacement Plan.

3.25 The policies and proposals contained in the Replacement Plan were appraised to determine their overall sustainability, which together with other considerations, provided the site selection and phasing of housing and employment sites.

3.26 The documents prepared by the consultants, explaining the methodology and summarising the outcome of the appraisal of policies and proposals, were published as supporting documents to the Replacement Plan (see Appendix 3 ‘Supporting Published Documents’).

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