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Housing: To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to live in a decent, well- designed, sustainably constructed and affordable home.
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- Will it ensure that Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople can live in accommodation which meets their needs?
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- Total number of pitches and plots planned for sites
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Transport and Accessibility: To ensure ready access to essential services and facilities for all residents that also allows sustainable movement.
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- Will it provide Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople with sufficient access to local services and facilities (e.g. schools, health facilities, sport and recreation, shopping, accessible green space/multifunctional green infrastructure, employment training, lifetime learning facilities and services in local centres) decreasing the need to travel?
- Will it provide Gypsies, Travellers and Showpeople with sustainable transport services that are easily accessible and reduce the need to travel?
- Will it provide adequate means of access by a range of sustainable transport modes (i.e. walking, cycling, and public transport)?
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- Distance and accessibility to public transport options
- Distance and accessibility to key services and amenities
- Frequency of bus services
- Impact on road congestion
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Community and Crime: To strengthen community cohesion.
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- Will it assist in reducing poverty and social exclusion in the Borough by providing access to improved employment opportunities?
- Will it promote peaceful and integrated co-existence between the Gypsy, Traveller or Travelling Showpeople site and the existing local community?
- Will it help reduce levels of crime, anti-social behaviour and the fear of crime?
- Will it provide access to community facilities?
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- Distance from proposed site and existing settled community
- Rate of crime
- Access to community facilities
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Health and Wellbeing: To improve the population's health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities.
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- Will it protect existing recreational assets such as formal or informal footpaths?
- Will it promote healthy lifestyles through walking, cycling, access to nature, green infrastructure, sport and recreation, and multifunctional open spaces?
- Will it protect Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople from adverse health effects associated with air, noise pollution, vibration and odour?
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- Access and distance to natural green space
- Provision and accessibility of recreational facilities and open space and GI.
- Number of Gypsies, Travellers and Showpeople in areas of poor air, noise, vibration, and odour quality.
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Economy: To facilitate a sustainable and growing economy.
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- Population
- Material Assets
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- Will it provide Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople with sustainable access to education and training facilities?
- Will it provide Gypsies, Travellers and Travelling Showpeople with sustainable access to employment opportunities?
- Will it support the provision of an appropriately skilled workforce?
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- Access to education facilities
- Access to employment
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Natural Resources: Ensure the Borough's land is being used effectively, conserving soils and mineral resources.
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- Will it avoid the unnecessary or unjustified sterilisation of mineral resources?
- Will it avoid the loss of Best and Most Versatile agricultural land?
- Will it support the development of previously developed land, and under-utilised land or buildings?
- Will it protect and maintain natural capital assets, including soil resources?
- Will it remediate contaminated land where appropriate?
- Will it encourage compact and integrated communities?
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- Protection of Material Assets
- Proportion of previously developed land
- Impacts on soil fertility, structure, and erosion
- Classification of Agricultural Land
- Re-use of contaminated land
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Water: To maintain and improve the quality of the Borough's waters and achieve sustainable water resources management.
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- Will it maintain and improve the water quality of the Borough?
- Will it provide adequate capacity to manage water?
- Will it support efficient use of water?
- Will it avoid development within Source Protection Zones, where possible?
- Will it avoid water pollution due to contaminated runoff from development?
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- Quality of water bodies in or adjacent to sites
- Percentage change in pollution incidents.
- Number of developments given planning permission contrary to EA advice relating to river water quality or the protection of groundwater
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Air Quality: To reduce air pollution ensuring lasting improvements in air quality.
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- Will it support and allow access to sustainable modes of transport, including the uptake of low/zero emission vehicles?
- Will it help to reduce congestion?
- Will it minimise the increase in traffic in Air Quality Management Areas?
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- Proximity to pollutants (e.g. busy roads)
- Development with potential to generate a significant increase in road traffic emissions or other air pollutants.
- Proximity to AQMAs and current AQMA status.
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Flooding: To avoid and mitigate flood risk.
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- Water
- Climatic Factors
- Human Health
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- Will it avoid development in areas at high risk of flooding and seek to reduce flood risk elsewhere, taking into consideration the impacts of climate change and given the particular vulnerability of caravans?
- Will it promote the use of SuDS, flood resilient design and natural flood management measures?
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- Flood risk vulnerability
- Flood management
- Flood design that includes natural flood defences
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Climate Change: To minimise the Borough's contribution to climate change.
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- Will it encourage the generation or use of energy from renewable or low-carbon sources?
- Will it promote energy efficient design or sustainable construction principles?
- Will it minimise GHG emissions from transport?
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- GHG emissions
- Energy consumption
- Renewable energy generation
- Area and connectivity of Green Infrastructure (carbon sink)
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Biodiversity: To conserve, connect and enhance the Borough's wildlife, habitats, and species.
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- Biodiversity, Flora, and Fauna
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- Will it ensure that designated and undesignated biodiversity assets are protected, enhanced, or restored?
- Will it conserve ecological networks and improve habitat connectivity?
- Will it increase access to greenspace and wildlife spaces for Gypsies, Travellers or Showpeople whilst encouraging respect and raising awareness for the sensitivity of these locations?
- Will it help to deliver biodiversity net gain?
- Will it identify, and where possible conserve and enhance, the biodiversity value within brownfield sites?
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- Area and condition of sites designated for biological and geological interest.
- Quantity of biodiversity net gain delivered through Defra Metric.
- Accessibility to green space and wildlife spaces
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Cultural Heritage: To conserve and/or enhance the Borough's historic environment.
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- Will it conserve, enhance, and restore the Borough's designated and non-designated heritage assets, including their setting and the wider historic environment?
- Will it conserve and enhance archaeological sites and remains?
- Will it promote access to, as well as enjoyment and understanding of, the local historic environment for the Borough's visitors and residents, including Gypsies, Travellers and Showpeople?
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- Number of listed buildings impacted.
- Number and condition of historic assets on the Heritage at Risk register.
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Landscape: To conserve and enhance the character and distinctiveness of the Borough's settlements and landscape.
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- Will it conserve the Borough's sensitive and special landscapes, including the Kent Downs AONB/National Landscape?
- Will it conserve, enhance, and restore the distinctive character of the Borough and its built environment and landscapes?
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- Will site development be in- keeping with the surroundings?
- Alterations to the landscape character
- Setting of Kent Downs AONB/National Landscape.
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