Biodiversity, fauna and flora

• conserve and enhance native and characteristic habitats and species throughout their range

Achieves international/national conservation objectives for, SSSI UK objectives

Achieves regional objectives e.g. from RSDF, regional BAP

Achieves local objectives, e.g. objectives from LBAPs

Population and human health

• protect and enhance human health proactively (e.g. sports, good diet, accident prevention) as well as reactively (eg good A&E services access)
• reduce and prevent crime, reduce fear of crime;
• decrease noise and vibration
• encourage safer environments in respect of transport

• years of healthy life expectancy
• mortality by cause
• recorded crimes per 1,000 population
• fear of crime surveys
• no. transport accidents
• proportion of people not getting a minimum level of healthy exercise in their daily lifestyle
• number of people affected by ambient noise levels
• public concern over noise
• proportion of tranquil areas

Water and soil

• limit water pollution to levels that do not damage natural systems
• maintain water abstraction, run-off and recharge within carrying capacity
• reduce contamination, and safeguard soil quality and quantity
• minimise waste, then re-use or recover it through recycling, composting or energy recovery
• make best use of land
• locate development to minimise risk to water resources and quality
• promote the use of sustainable urban drainage

• river and canal quality (biology and chemistry)
• quality and quantity of groundwater
• water use (by sector, including leakage) and availability
• proportion of households with poor water quality
• amount/loss of greenfield/brownfield land
• number of houses affected by subsidence, instability etc
• housing density
• per capita use of aggregates (new and recycled) and non-aggregates
• waste disposal of in landfill.
• loss of best and most versatile land
• recycling targets

Air

• limit air pollution to levels that do not damage natural systems
• reduce the need to travel

• number of days of air pollution
• population living in Air Quality Management Area
• access to key services
• distance travelled per person per year by mode of transport (incl air)
• modal split
• traffic volumes
• access to public transport

Climatic factors

• reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• reduce vulnerability to the effects of climate change e.g. flooding

• electricity and gas use
• electricity generated from renewable energy sources and CHP located in the area
• energy consumption per building and per occupant
• flood risk
• Number of properties in areas at risk from flooding

Cultural heritage and landscape

• preserve historic buildings, archaeological sites and other culturally important features
• create places, spaces and buildings that work well, wear well and look well
• enhance countryside and townscape character
• value and protect diversity and local distinctiveness
• improve the quantity and quality of publicly accessible open space
• Protect and enhance the diversity and local character of landscapes

• percentage of Listed Buildings and archaeological sites at "risk"
• number and proportion of vacant dwellings
• building functionality; use, access, space
• building quality; performance, engineering systems, construction
• building impact; form and materials, internal environment, urban and social integration, character and innovation
• percentage of land designated for particular quality or amenity value, including publicly accessible land and greenways

• proportion of population within 200m of parks and open space

Social inclusiveness

• empower all sections of the community to participate in decision making and consider the social and community impacts of decisions
• make opportunities for culture, leisure and recreation readily available to all
• improve the affordability, accessibility, quality or availability of commercially available or publicly provided goods or services
• provide an appropriate amount and mix of housing to meet the needs of the community

• redress inequalities related to, for instance:

• age
• gender
• disability
• race and faith
• deprivation (including lack of access to car)
• regions and localities (including rural/urban)

• adult education
• access to services for disabled people
• community well-being
• social participation
• tenant satisfaction/participation

• % of development within x minutes walk of a frequent bus route/rail service analyse specific indicators (e.g. health, access to services, unemployment in terms of social group (e.g. quintiles of income, age groupings) index of local deprivation
• homes judged unfit to live in
• housing completions, allocations, commitments
• affordable housing, types of housing
• vitality and viability of town centres

• existing and committed shopping/key town centre uses/employment land within town centres/edge of centre/out of town/rural locations

Economic development

• increase investment in people, infrastructure, other assets
• increase the efficiency of transport and economic activities
• provide a quality portfolio of industrial / employment sites
• encourage appropriate rural diversification

• unemployment, and the level of deprivation/exclusion it brings
• business start-ups net of closure
• inward investment (as percentage of output)
• social and community enterprises