Environmental Engineering Reference
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Box 19.3 Guidance on local development planning relevant to transport
PPS12 2004 Para 27 (iv)-(viii)
In preparing their plans authorities should seek to:
• bring forward suficient land of a suitable quality in appropriate locations to meet
the expected needs for (development) … taking into account issues such as
accessibility and sustainable transport needs (and) the provision of essential
infrastructure
• provide improved access for all to jobs, health, education (etc.) by ensuring that
new development is located where everyone can access services or facilities on
foot, bicycle or public transport rather than having to rely on access by car …
• focus developments that attract a large number of people … in existing centres to
promote their vitality and viability, social inclusion and more sustainable patterns
of development
• reduce the need to travel and encourage accessible public transport provision
… Planning should actively manage patterns of urban growth to make the fullest
use of public transport
• promote more eficient use of land through higher density, mixed use development
and the use of suitably located previously developed land and buildings.
More detailed guidance on the transport aspects of development planning is given in PPG13
Transport (DETR 2001).
Authorities also have to comply with EU Directive 2001/42/EC which requires
formal strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes which are likely
to have significant effects on the environment. This is reflected in the requirement to
undertake sustainability appraisal as an integral part of preparing local development
documents (21.8). Authorities are advised to integrate sustainability appraisal within
a more general monitoring framework which contributes to the evidence base for
formulating and reviewing plans (ODPM 2005a).
In the 2007 draft revision of PPS12 greater attention is given to the role of the Core
Strategy within the LDF and within this to the delivery strategy:
[The strategy] needs to demonstrate that the agencies/partners necessary for its
delivery have been involved in its preparation, and the resources required have
been given due consideration and have a realistic prospect of being provided in
the life of the strategy. If this is not the case, the strategy will be undeliverable.
(DCLG 2007h para 4.4)
One reason for this emphasis on delivery is the greater pressure that has been
brought to bear on the planning system as a mechanism for contributing to the
Government's targets for increased numbers of new houses (23.8):
Local planning authorities should set out in Local Development Documents their
policies and strategies for delivering the level of housing provision … that will
enable continuous delivery of housing for at least 15 years from the date of [plan]
 
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