Planning Considerations for Development Proposals

on the following planning considerations: • public safety, such as roads, rail, and aviation safety (including communications interference); • human health; • residential amenity and impacts on other such sensitive receptors (communities and individuals, including future occupants of committed developments); • visual amenity and landscape character, including cumulative impact (see also paragraph 6.225 in respect of proposals impacting designated landscapes); • biodiversity and geodiversity, nature conservation, archaeological or built heritage interests; • local natural resources, such as air quality, water quality or quantity; • the capacity of and effects on the transportation network; and, • impacts on tourism, recreation, and public access to the countryside.