Rother District Council

Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment

The Council is required by law to produce a Sustainability Appraisal (SA) (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)) for all of its LDF documents except for the Statement of Community Involvement, the Annual Monitoring Report, Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) and the Local Development Scheme.

Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report

The scope of the SA is defined in the stakeholders' consultation document, the SA Scoping Report, which underwent statutory consultation in August 2006.  This set out the context and objectives for the SA, collected baseline data and identified key issues / problems for the District and devised a Sustainability Appraisal Framework against which options and strategies can be tested. 

An updated revision of the Scoping Report was issued to the statutory consultees in December 2007 and this was approved in February 2008. 

Sustainability Appraisal of the Core Strategy

Sustainability Appraisal has been undertaken throughout the preparation of the Core Strategy. The SA of the Proposed Submission Core Strategy is now published alongside the Core Strategy consultation in the 6 week period 19th August 2011 to 30th September 2011. Comments were previously invited on the Initial SA Report which was made available alongside the Core Strategy 'Consultation on Strategy Directions' during the twelve-week consultation period 7th November 2008 - 30th January 2009.Previous comments made on the Core Strategy Sustainability Appraisal as part of the consultation are still available to view via this web-site.

Appropriate Assessment of the Core Strategy

Appropriate Assessment (AA) is an assessment of the potential effects of a proposed plan - 'in combination' with other plans and projects - on one or more European designated conservation sites.  Such sites include Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) designated under the 'Habitats Directive', Special Protection Areas (SPA) designated under the 'Birds Directive' and Ramsar sites, which are internationally important wetland habitats. 

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