Sustainability Appraisal
The purpose of Sustainability Appraisal is to assess the
social, environmental and economic effects of the Waste Core
Strategy by considering how each part of the Waste Core
Strategy contributes towards the achievement of a set of
'sustainability objectives'.
The Sustainability Appraisal for the Waste Core
Strategy also incorporates the requirement of a Strategic
Environmental Assessment.
The Sustainability Appraisal is carried out alongside the
Waste Core Strategy to ensure that sustainable development forms an
integral part of its development and an appraisal has been
undertaken at each stage in the development of the Waste Core
Strategy:
Sustainability Appraisal Scoping
Report for the Waste Core Strategy
To ensure that the appraisal process in preparing the
sustainability report is as comprehensive as is reasonably
possible, a Sustainability
Appraisal Scoping report 
(PDF 286KB) was prepared to outline the scope and
level of detail of the Sustainability Appraisal.
The Scoping Report was produced and consulted on
between September and November 2008 and accompanied the
Waste Core Strategy Refreshed Issues and Options document.
This document was an update to the Scoping Report
prepared for the Waste Core Strategy
that was withdrawn in February 2008.
Sustainability Appraisal of the Refreshed Issues
and Options Report
The next stage of the Sustainability Appraisal process involved
an appraisal of the Waste
Core Strategy Refreshed Issues and Options report.
This assessment was undertaken during March and April 2009
and was reported as an Interim
Sustainability Appraisal (2009) (PDF 545KB)
The Interim Sustainability Appraisal was taken into account
by the Council in developing the Emerging Preferred Options Report.
Sustainability Appraisal of the Emerging Preferred Options
An appraisal was undertaken of the Emerging Preferred Options Report.
This was reported in the Sustainability
Appraisal of Emerging Preferred Options for the Waste Core Strategy
for Worcestershire
We consulted on this report between November 2009 and February
2010 alongside consultation on the Emerging Preferred Options
Report.
"First Draft Submission" consultation stage of the
Waste Core Strategy
The Statutory requirements do not require an assessment to be
undertaken to accompany this stage of the Waste Core
Strategy. However to check the document's progress an
"Interim
Sustainability Appraisal (2010)" (PDF 1.3MB) was undertaken.
This forms part of the iterative processes between
the development of the Waste Core Strategy and the
Sustainability Appraisal process.
Sustainability Appraisal of the Publication Document
The Sustainability
Appraisal of the Publication document was open to comment
between 22nd March and 4th May 2011.
Natural England made comments on the Sustainability Appraisal.
These are addressed in the Addendum to the Waste Core Strategy
Document.
Sustainability Appraisal of the Waste Core Strategy Submission
Document Addendum
A Sustainability
Appraisal of the Waste Core Strategy Submission Document
Addendum (PDF 1.3MB) has been prepared. Comments on this element of
the Sustainability Appraisal were invited between 3rd October
and 5.30pm on 15th November 2011.
Sustainability Appraisal of the
Proposed Changes to the Waste Core Strategy
A Review of Sustainability of Proposed Changes to the
Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy (PDF 402KB) has been prepared that sets out a
commentary on the sustainability of the Proposed Changes
to the Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy of 5th April
2012
Given the limited scope of the changes in the
Proposed Changes, and the absence of a further full public
consultation stage, it would be inappropriate to undertake a
further full Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and reissue an amended
full SA Report. But we need to consider the sustainability
impact of the proposed further changes to ensure that they do not
compromise the substantially positive sustainability impacts of the
currently drafted WCS, and to comment on any sustainability issues
arising.
This Review has been published alongside the
consultation on the proposed changes from 5th April 2012
to 5.30pm on 21st May 2012.
Next Steps
A Sustainability Appraisal report was submitted to the
Secretary of State with the Waste Core Strategy on 28th
November 2011.
The Review of Sustainability of Proposed Changes to the
Worcestershire Waste Core Strategy (PDF 402KB) will be forwarded to the inspector
following consultation on the
Proposed Changes.
A final Sustainability Appraisal report
will also accompany the final published Waste Core Strategy as part
of the formal adoption.
How the work has been carried out
We have used external consultants to undertake the
Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats
Regulations Assessment of all the earlier stages of the
development of the Waste Core Strategy in order to give us
impartial advice.
In order to save costs however, we undertook the assessment of
the First Draft Submission consultation with in-house
staff.
This page was last reviewed 4 April 2012 at 18:24.
The page is next due for review 1 October 2013.