Sustainability vs Plan Policies

The Plan has fifteen objectives, nineteen policies (relating to land use) and ten actions (proposals and projects which are not related to land use but are important to the community and will contribute towards achievement of the Plan’s objectives and vision).

The table below analyses the Sustainability Objectives against Plan Policies. Green cells show where the policy is supportive of the sustainability objective, red shows where the policy has a harmful impact and white cells show where the impact is largely neutral.

As can be seen, there is a strong correlation between the Plan’s policies and sustainability objectives.

The addition of new dwellings has a positive impact on the social and economic sustainability of Goring by enhancing the use of existing community facilities, improving the housing mix and by potentially increasing support for local traders and individual enterprises. The site-specific requirements (SSRs) require that biodiversity is conserved and increased on all allocated sites and new community facilities are included on GNP 6 and GNP3. However, the impact of major development and new site allocations will harm the AONBs' and Goring’s unique natural environment as well as putting more stress on the infrastructure of the village, particularly traffic and parking. The effect of these negative impacts has been reduced to acceptable levels by the design of detailed SSRs. The allocation of GNP10 is subject to SODC Local Plan Policy E6. If the site has a change of use during the life of this Plan, it will result in a complex relationship between social and economic sustainability with the loss of employment land vs a gain in residential land and of small dwellings in the village centre.