PPS 12 Housing in Settlements·Page 71·Appendix 5
RDS Evaluation Framework
A framework of seven evaluation tests for assessing housing development proposals and settlement growth potential, covering resources, environment, transport, economics, character, services, and social equity.
Resource Test:
The existence of community assets and infrastructure, including spare capacity.
Environmental Capacity Test:
The environmental setting of the settlement and its potential to accommodate future outward growth.
Transport Test:
The potential for integrating land use and public transport to help reduce reliance on the private car (see PPS 13).
Economic Development Test:
The potential to facilitate an appropriate housing and jobs balance, and to unlock any major strategic development opportunities.
Urban and Rural Character Test:
The potential to maintain a sense of place, and to integrate new development in a way that does not detract from the character and identity of the settlement.
Community Services Test:
The potential to underpin and, where necessary, reinforce the community service role and function of the settlement.
Social Equity Test:
The potential to improve equality of opportunity and equity of treatment.
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