What is its purpose?

This Checklist aims to help developers, local authorities and other interested parties to assess how sustainable designs are for new homes and mixed use developments (including conversions) at the design and planning application stages of a development.

It focuses on the sustainability issues pertinent to spatial planning, while addressing construction and “in-use” issues that can be anticipated or influenced at the design phase.

The Brighton & Hove Checklist is a tool for decision makers. In itself it does not make decisions. Flexibility is built into the tool to allow for variations in sites and locations as issues pertinent in one area may be less significant in another.

This checklist has been replaced

All planning applications received from 13 July 2011 requiring the submission of a checklist at Validation stage must include a new version of the checklist.

Further information is available from the Brighton & Hove Sustainability Checklist website.

This checklist will remain online to allow existing users to reference their existing projects. New accounts and projects can no longer be created.