NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING

SEA Screening Request Form

Application for Screening Opinion as to whether a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is required for a Neighbourhood Plan

Please complete all sections which apply to your Neighbourhood Plan

Details of you and your organisation
Organisation
First Name
Surname
Email address
Telephone Number

Name of Neighbourhood Area

Extent of Neighbourhood Area
Whole Parish Area
Joint with Neighbouring Parish Council’s
Part of Parish Area
Neighbourhood Forum Area (as approved)

Vision and Objectives for the Neighbourhood Plan
Please provide a copy of any “Vision” and “Objectives” that you may have established. Please indicate whether these are “Draft” or “Final”. You can provide information on a separate sheet if necessary.
Vision or Objectives	Please indicate if provided
Final Vision
Final Objectives
Draft Vision
Draft Objectives
Vision and Objectives Not provided
Other relevant information on Vision and Objectives

Scope of your Neighbourhood Plan
Please indicate, in as much detail as you are able at this stage, what your Neighbourhood Plan is intending to cover. You can provide information on a separate sheet if necessary.
Does your Neighbourhood Plan propose Allocations for Sites for Development or other uses?
Please state YES or NO as appropriate	Allocations	Please indicate the Number of dwellings to be provided, floorspace of employment uses or area of the Other Uses allocation (in hectares)
	Development Sites for Housing
	Development Sites for Employment
	Allocations for Other Uses
	Does Your Neighbourhood Plan Allocate ADDITIONAL Housing or Employment Sites beyond that in the Calderdale Local Plan
What is the scope of Policy that is being included within your Neighbourhood Plan? You can provide information on a separate sheet if necessary.
POLICY AREAS : Please summarise the Policy areas that are being set out in the Neighbourhood Plan.
Policy Area	Summary

Does your Neighbourhood Plan have potential to impact on designated areas such as: Conservation Areas; Listed Buildings and Heritage Assets; Flood Zone 2 or 3, Site of Special Scientific Importance Special Protection Area/Special Area of Conservation; or the Green Belt. Such impact could be through allocations or policy requirements. If you consider this to be so please state what you consider these impacts are likely to be for the relevant allocations or policy. Please continue of a separate sheet if necessary.
DESIGNATED AREA	Potential Impact

If you have identified any environmental issues within your Neighbourhood Plan area - What are they? Please continue on a separate sheet if necessary.
Environmental Issue

Confirmation of Request for Screening Opinion:

Please sign this application for a Screening Opinion for your Neighbourhood Plan. By signing you affirm that the information contained in this application is correct to the best of your knowledge. PLEASE NOTE: If there are any significant changes to the information given, particularly as the Neighbourhood Plan develops you should inform the Council to determine if a revised Screening Opinion is required.

___________________________________________Date: ________________

NOTES:

• Under the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004 (the regulations) the district council is required to determine whether or not a neighbourhood plan is likely to have significant environmental effects and consequently, whether a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is required to be produced alongside the neighbourhood plan.

• In order determine whether a SEA is required to be produced alongside a particular neighbourhood plan, the council drafts a Screening Opinion, which follows the procedures set out in the regulations. The draft Screening Opinion is then sent to English Heritage, Natural England and the Environment Agency for comment. The final Screening Opinion is then published on the council’s website.

• If the Screening Opinion concludes that a SEA is required for the neighbourhood plan it is the responsibility of the neighbourhood plan steering group to produce a SEA that meets the regulations. From experience of neighbourhood plans so far, it is generally the case that if the plan is allocating sites then it will require a SEA, if sites aren’t being allocated, a SEA might still be required, and that is the purpose of the screening opinion to determine.

• It is particularly important that a Screening Opinion is published where it has found that a neighbourhood plan does not require SEA.

• Please answer the following questions regarding the neighbourhood plan to enable the district council to draft a Screening Opinion.

PRIVACY NOTICE:

Calderdale Council is registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. The Council takes its responsibilities under the Act very seriously.

The information provided by you including your name, contact details and comments are recorded electronically on our system purely for the purposes of the work required relating to the Council’s responsibilities in respect of screening proposed Neighbourhood Plans for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) under the provisions of the Planning Acts..

We need to collect this information in order to maintain accurate records to ensure that you can be properly informed of the outcome of the screening.

Completion of this form/sharing your information with us constitutes explicit consent from you for us to process your data for this purpose.

This information will be kept permanently or until such time as the data is reviewed/amended by us at your request or removed at your request.

As part of our statutory functions we will share data with the statutory bodies (Natural England, Environment Agency and Historic England as part of the screening process, and the person appointed to hold the Examination into the draft Neighbourhood Plan.

You may withdraw this consent at any time by writing to the Development Strategy Manager at [email protected], but by doing so you could undermine the relevant Neighbourhood Plan making process.

You have the right to see what information is held about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, to have information removed from our system unless we are required by law or a statutory purpose to keep it and the right to complain to the Data Protection Officer if you feel that your data has not been handled in accordance with the law.

The Councils Data Protection Officer is Tracie Robinson and can be contacted at [email protected]

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