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• Non-Technical Summary
• Section 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Purpose of the SPD
  • 1.2 Purpose of the Sustainability Appraisal and the SA Report
  • 1.3 The SA Process
  • 1.4 Relationship to the SEA Process
• Section 2: Appraisal Methodology
  • 2.1 Stages in the Process
  • 2.2 When the SA was carried out
  • 2.3 Who carried out the SA
  • 2.4 Difficulties encountered in compiling information or carrying out the assessment
• Section 3: Sustainability Objectives, Baseline and Context
  • 3.1 Links to other policies, plans and programmes
  • 3.2 Description of the social, environmental and economic baseline characteristics and the predicted furture baseline
  • 3.3 Main social environmental and economic issues and problems identified
  • 3.4 Limitations of the information
  • 3.5 Future Trends without the SPD
  • 3.6 The SA Framework, including objectives, targets and indicators
  • 3.7 Consulting on the Scope of the SA
• Section 4: Developing and Refining Options and Assessing Effects
  • 4.1 Testing the Local Plan Policies Against the SA Framework
  • 4.2 Testing the SPD Objectives Against the SA Framework
    • Table 3
  • 4.3 Developing the SPD Options
  • 4.4 Predicting the effects of the draft SPD
  • 4.5 Evaluating the effects of the draft SPD
  • 4.6 Considering ways of mitigating adverse effects and maximising beneficial effects
  • 4.7 Proposed Measures to Monitor the Significant Effects of Implementing the SPD
  • 4.8 Uncertainties and Risk
  • 4.9 Next Steps
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3