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Frequently Asked Questions
Here is a list of frequently asked questions relating to the Quality of Life Assessment.
- Where is it coming from, what is the 'agenda' behind it?
- Does it undermine existing designations and weaken protection?
- Does it provide a pretext for developers to trade everything away?
- Isn't it dangerously reductionist - doesn't breaking down and separating benefits risk missing the holistic value of complete areas or environments?
- What does it add? Doesn't a good planner, conservation body or even developer cover all this already?
- Who does the evaluation? Where do the judgements about 'importance' and so on come from?
- How much time and effort does it take?
- How does scale relate to importance?
- Why only 'high', 'middle' and 'low' importance?
- Does it give you a single aggregate value for an area or feature?
- How does it make a difference?
- Is it permissive or restrictive?
- How effective can substitution requirements be? Don't you risk having inadequate / late / incomplete substitution?
- How does it relate to characterisation? Is there a danger of confusion / overcomplication / duplication?
- Can it help with managing environmental resources more generally? How does it fit with other public policy / management processes?
