What do we want to do?
Development can have negative impacts as well as positive ones, with development in one area causing problems in other areas unless it is carefully planned. To guard against this, we need to make sure that the construction phase of new development is well managed, and that long-term measures, like drainage, land stability and flood defences are appropriately looked after.
How will we do this?
- Strategic Policy 8 (SP8): Conserving and Enhancing the Natural Environment: Sets out expectations for developers around protecting important species, habitat and landscapes.
- Strategic Policy 9 (SP9): Managing Coastal Erosion and Flood Risk: Sets out expectations for developers around managing coastal erosion and both avoiding and reducing flood risk.
- Strategic Policy 11 (SP11): Healthy and Safe Communities: Sets out expectations for developers to design developments with health and wellbeing in mind.
Development Management policies supporting SP8, SP9, and SP11 are:
- Policy SC15: Ground Behaviour, Geodiversity and Land Stability: Sets out detailed guidance for the assessment of ground conditions to ensure all development protects soils, people and buildings from landslide or movement, while they are being built and afterwards.
- Policy SC16: Flood Risk and Drainage: Sets out detailed guidance for assessing flood risk and how drainage should be provided and maintained by new developments both while they are being built and afterward.
- Policy SC17: Coastal Change Management: Identifies the Coastal Change Management Area (CCMA), prevents new residential development within it, and encourages schemes which conserve the natural and built heritage there.
- Policy SC18: Pollution and Hazards: Sets out detailed guidance on protecting air, water and soil from pollution, and avoiding hazards that could cause injury, during the construction and operation phases of development.
- Policy SC19: Environmental Nuisance: Sets out detailed guidance on protecting people and the environment from noise, smells, vibration and light pollution.