Promoting Sustainable Transport – The NPPF advises that Transport Statements and/or Transport Assessments should be used to support proposals for developments that will generate significant vehicle movements.
Requiring Good Design – The NPPF states that planning decisions should aim to ensure that developments: optimise the potential of the site to accommodate development; respond to local character and history, and reflect the identity of local surroundings and materials, while not preventing or discouraging appropriate innovation; and are visually attractive through good architecture and appropriate landscaping.
Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change, Flooding and Coastal Change – The NPPF advises that local authorities should plan for new development in locations and ways which reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and should adopt strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change, flood risk, and coastal change. It further states that authorities should adopt a positive strategy to promote energy from renewable and low carbon sources, and should direct development away from areas at highest risk of flooding (but where development is necessary, making it safe without increasing flood risk elsewhere). Inappropriate development in vulnerable areas and Coastal Change Management Areas should also be avoided.
Conserving and Enhancing the Natural Environment – The NPPF makes clear that the planning system should contribute to and enhance the natural and local environment by: protecting and enhancing valued landscapes, geological conservation interests and soils; and preventing new and existing development from contributing to or being at unacceptable risk from, or being adversely affected by unacceptable levels of soil, air, water or noise pollution or land instability. In relation to the development of agricultural land, consideration should be given in planning terms to the economic and other benefits of best and most versatile agricultural land, and where significant development is necessary, this should be directed to areas of poorer quality land. Further guidance is provided in respect of: protecting and enhancing areas of landscape, ecological and geological importance; and avoiding / mitigating noise impacts associated with new developments.
Conserving and Enhancing the Built Environment – The NPPF states that applicants should describe the significance of any designated and non- designated heritage assets affected by their development proposals, including any contribution made by their setting.
Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014
East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm
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