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Core Planning Principles

The SPPS establishes five key core planning principles that underpin the planning system to further sustainable development: improving health and wellbeing, creating and enhancing shared space, supporting sustainable economic growth, supporting good design and positive place making, and preserving and improving the built and natural environment.

The SPPS sets out five key core planning principles that underpin the planning system with the aim of furthering sustainable development which are: Improving Health and Wellbeing; Creating and Enhancing Shared Space; Supporting Sustainable Economic Growth; Supporting Good Design and Positive Place Making; and Preserving and Improving the Built and Natural Environment.

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