Richmondshire District Council

What is settlement development assessment?

Settlement development assessment (SDA) looks at how local conditions may affect future development in your town or village.

This helps us update local planning policies and determine any development proposals.

The assessment requires local knowledge to check and add to the profile of your town or village we've prepared. This will help to assess the capacity of current development limits, identify the most likely places for future development and areas of local green space, which could be protected.

We've prepared settlement profiles, maps of local conditions and guidance notes explaining what settlement development assessment is about.

We held a series of meetings with ward and parish councillors and local people. The draft settlement development assessment will be reported to ward and parish councillors before being published. The information in the following table shows how far along we are with this process and any completed assessments.