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To undertake a Sustainability Appraisal (SA) (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment and a Health Impact Assessment) of the emerging Somerset Local Plan 2025 - 2045 and provide associated SA Reports to accompany the stages of plan production, consultation, publication, submission and adoption as necessary. Somerset Council has already produced a SA Scoping Report (Stage A), this tender refers to refining alternatives and assessing the effects of the emerging Local Plan (Stage B), the production of the SA (Stage C) and amend the SA following consultation (Stage D).

Somerset Council needs a Sustainability Appraisal (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment and Health Impact Assessment) for their Local Plan 2025-2045. The work covers stages B through D: refining alternatives, assessing effects, producing the SA report, and amending it post-consultation.

You'll want to look if you have experience undertaking Strategic Environmental Assessments and Sustainability Appraisals for local authority planning documents, particularly at the options refinement and effects assessment stages.