NPPF F9: Development in Coastal Change Management Areas

F9: Development in Coastal Change Management Areas 1. Development should not take place within a Coastal Change Management Area (or within other areas likely to be subject to coastal erosion or tidal inundation over the next century, accounting for the National Coastal Erosion Risk Map and other up-to-date evidence on coastal change and its management) unless it can be demonstrated that it would: a. Be safe over its planned lifetime; b. Reflect the provisions of the relevant Shoreline Management Plan and not have an unacceptable impact on coastal change processes; and c. Provide wider sustainability benefits which justify the development. 2. Where development proposals meet these requirements, time-limited permissions and site-restoration conditions should be used where appropriate. 3. New residential development (including through changes of use) is inappropriate within an area to which this policy applies, unless it satisfies the tests set out at paragraph 1(a) to 1(c) in this policy. 88 19. Conserving and enhancing the natural environment The objective of the policies in this chapter is to influence the design and location of new development to help drive nature’s recovery and contribute to wider environmental outcomes, safeguarding our most important habitats, species and landscapes and recognising the centrality of natural capital to delivering sustainable growth. Plan-making policies