Background

The East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) and the East of England Sustainable Development Round Table (EESDRT) have developed A Sustainable Development Framework for the East of England (SDF).  It is intended that the Framework be used as a template for guiding partner organisations in the Region when drawing up their own strategies and action plans.  The framework identifies nine high level objectives and a number of relevant indicators for each of these.  This is designed to be compatible with the government’s UK strategy for sustainable development “A Better Quality of Life”.

This East of England Toolkit has been developed by the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UK CEED), an independent not-for-profit foundation, as a first step to help assess and guide projects and strategies by public and private sector bodies within the region to help ensure their compatibility with the SDF.  It will be used initially to assess the Regional Planning Guidance (RPG), but is designed to appraise all plans, strategies or projects being developed at the regional, sub-regional or local level.