Strategic Environmental Assessment
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Rochford District Council Strategic Environmental Assessment Baseline Information Profile 2008 – 2009 Prepared For Rochford District Council by Essex County Council CONTENTS CONTENTS Figure List..........................................................................................................................v Table List .......................................................................................................................... ix 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................1 PART ONE: Natural Environment..................................................................................3 2 Biodiversity, Flora and Fauna .................................................................................5 3 Landscape ............................................................................................................17 4 Air Quality .............................................................................................................25 5 Climatic Factors ....................................................................................................41 6 Water Quality ........................................................................................................49 7 Flooding ................................................................................................................55 8 Soils, Minerals and Waste.....................................................................................59 PART TWO: Built Environment....................................................................................79 9 Cultural Heritage and Townscape.........................................................................81 10 Health....................................................................................................................89 11 Population and Social .........................................................................................107 12 Economy .............................................................................................................115 13 Housing...............................................................................................................143 14 Transport.............................................................................................................157 Bibliography...................................................................................................................183 iii CONTENTS iv FIGURE LIST FIGURE LIST Figure Page Figure 1: Farmland and woodland bird population indices 1994 to 2003.......................6 Figure 2: Percentage of farmland and woodland bird populations increasing, decreasing or showing little change from 1994 to 2003..................................7 Figure 3: Ramsars, SPAs and SACs in Rochford District ..............................................9 Figure 4: SSSI location within Rochford District...........................................................11 Figure 5: Condition of SSSIs in Rochford District 2007................................................13 Figure 6: Rochford District Local Nature Reserves......................................................14 Figure 7: Rochford District Local Wildlife Sites ............................................................15 Figure 8: Special Landscape Areas within Rochford District........................................18 Figure 9: Landscape Character Areas within Rochford District....................................19 Figure 10: Ancient woodland, historic parks and gardens, protected lanes and special verges within Rochford District .........................................................23 Figure 11: Location of NO2 monitoring tube 1: Rochford Market Square .......................28 Figure 12: Location of NO2 monitoring tube 2: Junction of Eastwood Road and High Street, Rayleigh....................................................................................29 Figure 13: Location of NO2 monitoring tube 3: Bedloes Corner, Rawreth......................29 Figure 14: Annual mean concentrations of Benzene (concentrations in μgm-3).............31 Figure 15: Southend Airport Lden noise contours..........................................................35 Figure 16: Southend Airport Lnight noise contours........................................................37 Figure 17: Major roads within Rochford District .............................................................39 Figure 18: Energy consumption in GWh by consuming sector within Rochford and Essex in 2005 ...............................................................................................44 Figure 19: Essex CO2 emissions per capita (tCO2) in 2005...........................................46 Figure 20: Main rivers within Rochford District...............................................................50 Figure 21: Main rivers/watercourses within the District ..................................................55 Figure 22: Spatial extent of Essex flood zone 2.............................................................56 Figure 23: Spatial extent of Essex flood zone 3.............................................................57 Figure 24: Agricultural land classification in Essex ........................................................60 Figure 25: Agricultural land classification in Rochford District........................................61 Figure 26: Total waste collected by District or Borough 2007 – 2008 ............................62 Figure 27: Proportion of district waste recycled and composted in Essex 2007 – 2008..............................................................................................................64 Figure 28: District waste collected in tonnes per dwelling across Essex in 2007 – 2008..............................................................................................................65 Figure 29: HWRC waste collected in tonnes per dwelling across Essex in 2007 – 2008..............................................................................................................67 Figure 30: District waste landfilled per dwelling in Rochford District and Essex 1999 – 2008...........................................................................................................68 Figure 31: Proportion of district waste landfilled in Rochford District and Essex 1999 – 2008..................................................................................................69 Figure 32: District waste recycled per dwelling in Rochford and Essex 1999 – 2008 ....70 v FIGURE LIST Figure 33: Proportion of district waste recycled in Rochford District and Essex 1999 – 2008...........................................................................................................70 Figure 34: Household Waste Recycling Centre waste landfilled per dwelling in Rochford District and Essex 1999 – 2008.....................................................71 Figure 35: Proportion of Household Waste Recycling Centre waste landfilled in Rochford and Essex 1999 – 2008.................................................................72 Figure 36: Household Waste Recycling Centre waste recycled in Rochford District and Essex 1999 – 2008 ................................................................................73 Figure 37: Proportion of Household Waste Recycling Centre waste recycled in Rochford and Essex 1999 – 2008.................................................................74 Figure 38: Listed buildings in Rochford District..............................................................82 Figure 39: Scheduled monuments in Rochford District..................................................85 Figure 40: Conservation areas and Common land in Rochford District .........................87 Figure 41: Rochford District comparison of DSMR for coronary heart disease 1993 – 2006 for all ages ........................................................................................90 Figure 42: Rochford District comparison of DSMR for coronary heart disease 1993 – 2006 for people under 75...........................................................................91 Figure 43: Rochford District comparison of DSMR for all cancers 1993 – 2006 for all ages .........................................................................................................92 Figure 44: Rochford District comparison of DSMR for all cancers 1993 – 2006 for people under 75............................................................................................93 Figure 45: Average life expectancy at birth in Rochford District, East of England and England..................................................................................................94 Figure 46: Teenage conception rate trend analysis 1998 - 2005 ...................................95 Figure 47: Teenage conception rate (per 1,000 females aged 15 – 17) in 2003 - 2005..............................................................................................................96 Figure 48: Total claimants as a percentage of total population......................................97 Figure 49: Proportion of claimants claiming incapacity benefit/severe disability allowance for a period of less than six months .............................................98 Figure 50: Proportion of claimants claiming incapacity benefit/severe disability allowance for a period over 5 years ..............................................................99