Who owns the checklist?

The South West Sustainability Checklist is free at the point of delivery and has been developed by a regional partnership led by Future Foundations. Use of the checklist is required by the draft South West Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS). Development policy G of the draft SW RSS states

‘Developers, local authorities, regional agencies and others must ensure that their strategies, plans and programmes achieve best practice in sustainable construction by ……. requiring the use of sustainability statements for larger scale residential and/or mixed-use planning applications, the contents of which should meet, or exceed, the South West Sustainability Checklist for Developments.’

The draft SW RSS also states in section 3.7.7 that ‘The use of the South West Sustainability Checklist for Development is to be encouraged to promote a consistent approach to realising the opportunities of sustainable design and construction’

The draft RSS defines larger scale development in detail, but for new residential developments this is taken to be the development of 10 or more dwellings.

The resource was designed, developed and is currently being hosted and administered by Sustainability Works