Sustainability Appraisal 

The Sustainability Appraisal (SA) is a process used to audit how sustainable development is being incorporated into strategies prepared by organisations. A summary of SA can be viewed here.

The purpose of the Sustainability Appraisal, as part of the new planning system, is to encourage sustainable development throughout the preparation and adoption of new local planning policy documents, called Development Plan Documents.  To view the relationship between the Sustainability Appraisal process and Development Plan Documents please click here. The SA process follows the following stages:

• Scoping Report;
• Commentary (at Issues and Options stage);
• Sustainability Appraisal Report (at Publication stage);
• Revised Sustainability Appraisal Report (at Submission stage).

The Sustainability Appraisal process will be used to assess and monitor the performance of the Stafford Borough Local Development Framework.

For information about the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), please click here.

To view SA information on the suspended Development Plan Documents (contained in the first 2005 LDS) please click here.