What is the checklist?

The West Midlands Sustainability Checklist was developed from a national Checklist created by WWF with the full backing of DCLG and the BRE with the explicit aim of encouraging better quality planning applications that fully address sustainability issues and opportunities.

The original regional Checklist was launched in 2007 by AWM and the West Midlands Regional Assembly with a number of regional partners including the West Midlands Regional Planning Officers Group and Sustainability West Midlands.

The Checklist is a sustainability appraisal tool based on the West Midlands Regional Sustainable Development Framework. It is a generic regional tool and local authorities are strongly encouraged to use it for guiding development to meet their own local planning needs and sustainability requirements, i.e. use the Checklist to test new development against local policies.

You should use the regional Checklist with reference to the relevant Local Planning Authority policies if you intend submitting an application to one of them.

The Checklist is best used at the design and planning application stages of a new development. The Checklist assumes that the sustainability of sites being brought forward for development in Local Plans has already been subject to Sustainability Appraisal / Strategic Environmental Assessment and tested at Examination in Public.

  • Advantage West Midlands
  • West Midlands Leaders Board
  • Communities and Local Government
  • bre
  • WWF

This checklist is no longer supported

The Government announced that as part of its new policy on economic development all Regional Development Agencies, including Advantage West Midlands, will close.

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