The headings

The same headings are used for the South East Checklist and those for the other English regions. This provides developers and planners with a degree of consistency, efficiency and similarity in approach across regions.

Questions are organised in logical, topic-based categories, linked to local authority departments. Crosscutting themes, such as health, are not covered under a dedicated heading. Similarly, questions included in the Checklist, relevant to spatial planning and health, are not located in one section.

Where groups have an interest in crosscutting issues, we suggest they use the full list of questions to identify those which have relevance to the issue of interest, assessing the answers to examine the contribution a development proposal makes.

When the Checklist is reviewed we will welcome comments on issues that commentators believe should be included in the next iteration, as well as comments on the structuring.