Sustainability Appraisal of the Welborne Plan
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Sustainability Appraisal of the Welborne Plan Sustainability Report on the Publication Welborne Plan Appendices Client: Fareham Borough Council UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Report No.: Appendices_4_140128 Version: 4 Status: Final Date: January 2014 Author: NCB/SP/NP Checked: SP Approved: NP Sustainability Appraisal Report on the Publication Welborne Plan: Appendices January 2014 UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Appendices_4_140128 Contents Appendix A: Compliance Checklist 1 Appendix B: Baseline and Key Issues 3 1 Accessibility and Transport 5 1.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 5 1.2 Baseline Data 5 1.3 Key Issues for Accessibility and Transport 13 2 Air Quality 15 2.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 15 2.2 Baseline Data 15 2.3 Key Issues for Air Quality 16 3 Biodiversity and Geodiversity 17 3.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 17 3.2 Baseline Data 17 3.3 Key Issues for Biodiversity and Geodiversity 38 4 Climate Change 39 4.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 39 4.2 Baseline Data 39 4.3 Key Issues for Climate Change 44 5 Economic Factors 45 5.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 45 5.2 Baseline Data 45 5.3 Key Issues for Economic Factors 49 6 Health 51 6.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 51 6.2 Baseline Data 51 6.3 Key Issues for Health 57 7 Historic Environment 59 Sustainability Appraisal Report on the Publication Welborne Plan: Appendices January 2014 UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Appendices_4_140128 7.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 59 7.2 Baseline Data 59 7.3 Key Issues for Historic Environment 67 8 Housing 69 8.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 69 8.2 Baseline Data 69 8.3 Key Issues for Housing 72 9 Landscape 73 9.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 73 9.2 Baseline Data 73 9.3 Key Issues for Landscape 81 10 Material Assets 83 10.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 83 10.2 Baseline Data 83 10.3 Key Issues for Material Assets 87 11 Population and Quality of Life 89 11.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 89 11.2 Baseline Data 89 11.3 Key Issues for Population and Quality of Life 96 12 Soil 97 12.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 97 12.2 Baseline Data 97 12.3 Key Issues for Soil 99 13 Water 101 13.1 Summary of Policy and Plan Review 101 13.2 Baseline Data 101 13.3 Key Issues for Water 105 Appendix C: Analysis of Consultation Reponses 109 Appendix D: PPP Review 111 Appendix E: SA Framework 113 Sustainability Appraisal Report on the Publication Welborne Plan: Appendices January 2014 UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Appendices_4_140128 Appendix F: Options Assessment April 2013 115 Appendix G: Detailed Assessment Summer 2013 117 Appendix H: High Level Assessment of the Publication Draft Welborne Plan 119 Appendix I: Detailed Assessment of the Publication Draft Welborne Plan 121 List of Tables Table 1.1: Car ownership and travel to work in Fareham compared to regional and national averages (2011) 12 Table 3.1: Habitat Action Plans prepared for the Hampshire Biodiversity Action Plan 18 Table 3.2: Hampshire and selected UK BAP species reported on and condition found in Fareham 22 Table 3.3: Species Action Plans prepared for the Hampshire Biodiversity Action Plan 24 Table 3.4: Forest of Bere Biodiversity Opportunity Area 25 Table 3.5: Portsdown Hill Biodiversity Opportunity Area 25 Table 3.6: Portsmouth Harbour Biodiversity Opportunity Area 25 Table 3.7: Meon Valley Biodiversity Opportunity Area 26 Table 4.1: Per capita CO2 emissions in Fareham in comparison to county, regional and England averages 2005-2009 43 Table 4.2: Emissions in Fareham by source 2005-2009 (kilotonnes CO2 and percentage) 44 Table 5.1: New and Closed Businesses in Fareham 2004-2010 45 Table 5.2: Number of all VAT and/or PAYE based enterprises 46 Table 5.3: Enterprises by age of business (March 2010) 46 Table 5.4: Employment by occupation (April 2010 to March 2011) 47 Table 5.5: Employment by sector (2008) 47 Table 5.6: Qualifications in Fareham (January 2009-December 2010) 48 Table 6.1: Limiting long-term illness and levels of health in Fareham 52 Table 8.1: Housing tenures in Fareham in comparison to national averages 70 Table 8.2: Housing completions in Fareham 70 Table 8.3: Average house prices October-December 2011 71 Sustainability Appraisal Report on the Publication Welborne Plan: Appendices January 2014 UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Appendices_4_140128 Table 8.4: Households on the Local Authority Housing Register 71 Table 10.1: Waste arisings and recycling rates in Fareham in comparison with regional and national averages 2007/8 to 2012/13 85 Table 10.2: Housing completions on brownfield sites 85 Table 11.1: Fareham predicted population change (Source: ONS 2008-based subnational population projections, published May 2010, www.statistics.gov.uk) 90 Table 11.2: Population of ethnic groups (Source: ONS population estimates 2009) 92 Table 11.3: Crime rates for different types of offences in Fareham, 2008-2011 95 List of Figures Figure 1.1: Highways arrangement for SRTM run 8b (Source: MVA, 2013, Appendix C) 7 Figure 1.2: Total traffic flow run1 AM peak 8 Figure 1.3: Traffic flow change run8b vs run1 (>50pcu only) AM peak 9 Figure 1.4: Traffic flow change run8b vs run1 (>50pcu only) M27J9 AM peak 10 Figure 1.5: Traffic flow change run8b vs run1 (>50pcu only) M27J11 AM peak 11 Figure 2.1: Location of Air Quality Management Areas in Fareham (source FBC) 16 Figure 3.1: BAP habitats in the vicinity of Welborne 20 Figure 3.2: Biodiversity Opportunity Areas in the vicinity of Welborne 27 Figure 3.3: European sites located within 10km of Welborne 31 Figure 3.4: Location of SSSIs, NNRs and LNRs in the vicinity of Welborne 32 Figure 3.5: Condition of Botley Wood and Everett's and Mushes Copses SSSI (at November 2011) 34 Figure 3.6: Location of SINCs and RVEIs in the vicinity of Welborne 35 Figure 3.7: Geology of the area surrounding Welborne (Source: East Solent Shoreline Management Plan) 37 Figure 4.1: Changes in mean temperature in the South East to 2099 as a result of a medium emissions scenario (Source: UK Climate Projections 09) 40 Figure 4.2: Changes in summer mean precipitation in the South East to 2099 as a result of a medium emissions scenario (Source: UK Climate Projections 09) 41 Figure 4.3: Changes in winter mean precipitation in the South East to 2099 as a result of a medium emissions scenario (Source: UK Climate Projections 09) 41 Sustainability Appraisal Report on the Publication Welborne Plan: Appendices January 2014 UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Appendices_4_140128 Figure 6.1: Health profile for Fareham (Source: DoH, Fareham Health Profile 2011) 52 Figure 6.2: Health deprivation in Fareham by Borough Super Output Area 53 Figure 6.3: Day-time baseline noise map (LAeq) 54 Figure 6.4: Night-time baseline noise map (LAeq) 55 Figure 7.1: Conservation Areas, Listed Buildings and Scheduled Monuments in the vicinity of Welborne 63 Figure 9.1: Landscape Sensitivity Zones around Welborne (Source: David Lock Associates, 2009) 75 Figure 9.2: Suggested landscape response for Welborne (Source: LDA Design, 2012) 78 Figure 9.3: Zone of Theoretical Visibility (Source: Cooper Partnership, 2013) 79 Figure 9.4: Tranquillity in Hampshire (source: CPRE) 80 Figure 10.1: Welborne constraints plan (Source: FBC) 84 Figure 11.1: Population of Fareham 2001-2010 90 Figure 11.2: Predicted population change in Fareham 2011-2033 90 Figure 11.3: Fareham population pyramid 91 Figure 11.4: Indices of Multiple Deprivation in Fareham: overall scores 93 Figure 11.5: Unemployment in Fareham compared to the South East and England averages 2006-2010 (source ONS) 94 Figure 12.1: Agricultural Land Classification (Source: Natural England) 98 Figure 12.2: Agricultural Land Classification (Source: MAGIC) 99 Figure 13.1: Portsmouth Waters’ Baseline Water Supply-Demand Balance (Source: Portsmouth Water, 2013) 103 Figure 13.2: Flood risk zones 107 Sustainability Appraisal Report on the Publication Welborne Plan: Appendices January 2014 UE-0115 Publication Welborne Plan SA Appendices_4_140128 Abbreviations ALC Agricultural Land Classification NNR National Nature Reserve AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty NH3 Ammonia AQMA Air Quality Management Area NPPF National Planning Policy Framework BAP Biodiversity Action Plan ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister BOA Biodiversity Opportunity Area ONS Office of National Statistics CIEEM Chartered Institute for Ecology and PPPs Policies, plans and programmes Environment CLG Department of Communities and Local PUSH Partnership for Urban South Hampshire Government CO2 Carbon dioxide RVEI Road Verges of Ecological Importance CPRE Campaign to Protect Rural England SA Sustainability Appraisal CRoW Countryside and Rights of Way SAC Special Area of Conservation CRTN Calculation of Road Traffic Noise SAP Species Action Plan DEFRA Department of the Environment, Food SCS Sustainable Community Strategy and Rural Affairs DMRB Design Manual for Roads and Bridges SDA Strategic Development Area EA Environment Agency SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment EIA Environmental Impact Assessment SFRA Strategic Flood Risk Assessment FBC Fareham Borough Council SI Statutory Instrument GIS Geographic information systems SINC Site of Importance for Nature Conservation HAP Habitat Action Plan SOA Super Output Area HCC Hampshire County Council SPA Special Protection Area HER Historic Environment Record SPZ Source Protection Zones IMD Indices of Multiple Deprivation SRTM Sub-Regional Transport Model LBAP Local Biodiversity Action Plan SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest LDF Local Development Framework UKCIP UK Climate