Local Plan Review Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulation Assessment

All documentation is available on The Chest. 1.1 Lancaster City Council is preparing a review of its Local Plan for the District. It is anticipated the Local Plan will be adopted (30th July 2020) however due to the declaration of a climate emergency by the City Council in January 2019 the Local Plan is entering an immediate partial review to ensure matters relating to climate change have been further explored.

1.2 As part of this work the City Council seeks to commission consultants to undertake the Sustainability Appraisal (SA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) as required during the preparation and assessment of the revised Local Plan. The SA assessment will be required to incorporate the SEA and SA requirements into a single assessment process, hereafter referred to as SA.

1.3 The successful consultants will be procured on a retained basis to undertake all SA and HRA work required for the preparation, assessment and examination of the reviewed Local Plan. The potential attendance and giving of evidence at Examination is to be included within this.