Table 3.1.Relevant policies from the Mid Suffolk Core Strategy including CSFR updates Policy


Summary


CS2 Development in the Countryside


CS3 Reduce Contributions to Climate change


CS4 Adapting to Climate Change


States that development will be restricted to defined categories including renewable energy projects.


Aims to reduce contributions to climate change by promoting and encouraging the appropriate development of standalone renewable energy schemes.


States that all development proposals will contribute to the delivery of sustainable development and reflects the need to plan for climate change, through addressing its causes and potential impacts on the following:


 Flood Risk: The council will support development proposals that avoid areas of current and future flood risk, and which do not increase flooding elsewhere, adopting the precautionary principle to development proposals.


 Pollution: To protect people and the environment from unsafe or unhealthy pollutants. Development that harms the quality of soil or air and/or causes noise, dust, odour or light pollution will be avoided wherever possible. Development proposals will have no adverse effect on water quality.


 Biodiversity: Development must also seek to adapt for the anticipated negative impacts from climate change upon biodiversity by protecting the districts natural capital and applying an ecological network approach.


CS5 Mid Suffolk's Environment


Affords protection to the environment and states that all development will maintain and enhance the environment, including the historic environment, and retain the local distinctiveness of the area.


To protect, manage and enhance Mid Suffolk's biodiversity and geodiversity based on a network of:


 designated Sites (international, national, regional and local);  biodiversity Action Plan Species and Habitats, geodiversity interests within the wider environment; and  wildlife Corridors and Ecological Networks.


and where appropriate increase opportunities for access and appreciation of biodiversity and geodiversity conservation for all sections of the community.


FC3 (replaces previous Core Strategy Policy CS11) Supply of Employment Land


Relates to the employment land, stating that a range of good quality sites will be made available for employment land in all towns and at least some of the key service centres through support for uprating existing sites where this is practicable. Policy FC3 also states that major new allocations of employment land should be situated primarily in or close to towns and key service centres with good access to the District’s major transport routes and good access by public transport.


Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014


East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm


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