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Use SD guidance to develop
coherent SD objectives, targets
and indicators at both regional
and focal levels
Europe-wide
organisations: SD
objectives, targets
EU directives
National planning
regulations guidance
National SD targets
and indicators
Develop and
co-ordinate
strategies and
policies for
regional plans
and local plans
Regional frame for
sustainable
development
Regional plans
Identify top-down SD
objectives at local level
Policy updates
SD appraisal of the
Local Spatial Plan
using analysis tools
Map against:
Local plan updates
for sustainable
development
A2: local plan policies
A3: local corporate
strategies
Analysis of spatial plan
Compatibility of policies
Assessment of impact of
'hotspots'
Input to planning
process
Map against:
A2: local spatial
plan policies
Draft 'sustainable'
spatial plan
SD target achievement
strategy
Evaluate results
Environmental
statement
Monitoring work
Political and executive
commitment
Agree municipal and
community resources
and responsibility
Adoption/
implementation
process for plan
Develop practical local
SD targets and proxy
indicators
Public forum: co-ordinate
municipal and community
processes for the pro-active
development of the spatial plan
Implementation of
projects
Municipal/community
consultation/agreement
on local SD objectives
Implementation
and monitoring
Figure 8.1
The integration of sustainable development in planning. (Source:
Porter, G. (2000), in Mawhinney, M. (2002)
Sustainable Development. Understanding
the Green Debates
. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford.)
responds to European, national and regional objectives and targets and
initiates a complex process and system that engages sustainable devel-
opment issues alongside the conventional planning criteria. In an ideal
world the two would be synonymous since part of the object of plan-
ning must be the sustainability, in its widest interpretation, of the com-
munity that it serves.
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