42Assessment of certain factors

42 Assessment of certain factors

42 Assessment of certain factors

The council shall not consent to the carrying out of any development on land to which this plan applies, unless it has made an assessment of—

(a) whether satisfactory arrangements have been made to reduce the risk of fire spreading on the site on which the development is intended to be carried out, onto the site from land adjoining the site or from the site on to land adjoining the site,

(b) whether arrangements, satisfactory to the council, have been made to reduce the risk of subsidence, slip or flooding of the land to which the proposed development relates,

(c) the effect, if any, which the development will or is likely to have on any item of the environmental heritage, within the meaning of clause 58, and any other building or site which the council considers to be of scientific or historic interest,

(d) the height of any building in the locality,

(e) where the development is intended to be carried out on land (other than land within the escarpment preservation area) whether, having regard to the topography of the land the type and extent of existing trees and vegetation, adequate provision has been made, in the opinion of the council, to preserve the visual amenity of the locality, and

(f) whether adequate provision has been made, in the opinion of the council, for access on to the land from a public road.