Protect and Enhance the Environment

• Use energy, water and other natural resources efficiently and with care.
• Minimise waste, then reuse or recover it through recycling, composting or energy recovery, and finally sustainably dispose of what is left.
• Limit pollution to levels that do not damage natural systems.
• Value and protect the diversity of nature
  

Meet Social Needs

• Create or enhance places, spaces and buildings that work well, wear well and look well.
• Make settlements 'human' in scale and form.
• Value and protect diversity and local distinctiveness and strengthen local community and cultural identity.
• Protect human health and amenity through safe, clean and pleasant environments
• Emphasise health service prevention action as well as cure.
• Ensure access to good food, water, housing and fuel at reasonable cost.
• Meet local needs locally wherever possible
• Maximise everyone's access to the skills and knowledge needed to play a full part in society.
• Empower all sections of the community to participate in decision making and consider the social and community impacts of decisions.
  

Promote Economic Success

• Create a vibrant local economy that gives access to satisfying and rewarding work without damaging the local, national or global environment.
• Value unpaid work
• Encourage necessary access to facilities, services, goods and other people in ways which make less use of the car and minimise impacts on the environment.
• Make opportunities for culture, leisure and recreation readily available for all.