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Appraisal of sustainability for the proposed Airports National Policy Statement

Appraisal of potential social, economic and environmental impacts of the policy set out in the proposed Airports National Policy Statement.

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, non-technical summary

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, main report

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, appendix a1 to a12 - topic based schemes assessment

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, appendix b – alternatives considered

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, appendix c – scoping responses from statutory environmental bodies

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, appendix d - variations considered

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, scoping report and appendices (review of plans, policies and programmes; review of baseline)

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement, scoping consultation responses report

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Appraisal of sustainability: Airports National Policy Statement (non-technical summary, main report and appendices) change log

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Appraisal of the potential social, economic and environmental impacts of the policy set out in the proposed Airports National Policy Statement and recommends options for mitigating potential impacts.

This appraisal of sustainability updates the Appraisal of sustainability for the revised draft Airports National Policy Statement, published for the second consultation in October 2017.

The change log summarises revisions made to the appraisal of sustainability since it was published for consultation in October 2017.

Topic based options assessments (appendix a) provide in-depth analysis of the potential direct and indirect effects. Individual appendices cover: community, quality of life, economy, noise, biodiversity, soils, water, air quality, carbon, resources and waste, historic environment and landscape.

Appendices b, c and d outline information on the shortlisting of alternative schemes, scoping responses from statutory environmental bodies and variations to scheme designs.

The scoping report, supporting appendices and consultation scoping report set out the appraisal framework used to test the alternatives as part of the full appraisal of sustainability and document the responses to the consultation held on the proposed scoping.

Under the Planning Act 2008 an appraisal of sustainability must accompany a National Policy Statement.

Updates to this page

Published 5 June 2018
Last updated 2 August 2018 + show all updates
  1. Historic environment appendix corrected to rectify an error in consistency with the main report. The change log has also been updated to include this correction.

  2. First published.

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