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Hunterston Construction Yard Environmental Review Hunterston Construction Yard Environmental Review February 2017 Hunterston Construction Yard Environmental Review Client: Peel Ports Document number: 7467 Project number: 168612 Status: For Issue Redacted Author: Reviewer: Date of issue: 9 February 2017 Glasgow Aberdeen Inverness Edinburgh Craighall Business Park Banchory Business Alder House Suite 114 8 Eagle Street Centre Cradlehall Business Park Gyleview House Glasgow Burn O’Bennie Road Inverness 3 Redheughs Rigg G4 9XA Banchory IV2 5GH Edinburgh 0141 341 5040 AB31 5ZU 01463 794 212 EH12 9DQ [email protected] 01330 826 596 0131 516 9530 www.envirocentre.co.uk This report has been prepared by EnviroCentre Limited with all reasonable skill and care, within the terms of the Contract with Peel Ports (“the Client”). The report is confidential to the Client, and EnviroCentre Limited accepts no responsibility of whatever nature to third parties to whom this report may be made known. No part of this document may be reproduced or altered without the prior written approval of EnviroCentre Limited. Peel Ports February 2017 Hunterston Construction Yard; Environmental Review Contents 1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Site Location ............................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Scope of This Document.......................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Structure of the Environmental Review .................................................................................................. 1 1.4 Sources of Information ............................................................................................................................ 1 2 Project Description .......................................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 The Site .................................................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Environmental Setting ............................................................................................................................. 3 2.3 Site History .............................................................................................................................................. 3 2.4 Proposed Development .......................................................................................................................... 3 2.5 Design Led Mitigation ............................................................................................................................. 4 2.6 Planning Consent Process ....................................................................................................................... 5 3 Water Environment & Coastal Processes ........................................................................................................ 6 3.1 Context .................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.2 Baseline ................................................................................................................................................... 6 3.3 Key Issues ................................................................................................................................................ 8 3.4 Scope of Assessment ............................................................................................................................. 10 4 Ornithology .................................................................................................................................................... 11 4.1 Context .................................................................................................................................................. 11 4.2 Baseline ................................................................................................................................................. 11 4.3 Key Issues .............................................................................................................................................. 15 4.4 Scope of Assessment ............................................................................................................................. 16 5 Terrestrial and Marine Ecology...................................................................................................................... 18 5.1 Context .................................................................................................................................................. 18 5.2 Baseline ................................................................................................................................................. 18 5.3 Key Issues .............................................................................................................................................. 22 5.4 Scope of Assessment ............................................................................................................................. 23 6 Landscape and Visual..................................................................................................................................... 25 6.1 Context .................................................................................................................................................. 25 6.2 Baseline ................................................................................................................................................. 25 6.3 Landscape Impacts ................................................................................................................................ 25 6.4 Visual Impacts ....................................................................................................................................... 26 7 Other Environmental Considerations ............................................................................................................ 28 7.1 Air Quality ............................................................................................................................................. 28 7.2 Noise and Vibration ............................................................................................................................... 28 7.3 Archaeology and Cultural Heritage ....................................................................................................... 29 8 Cumulative Impacts ....................................................................................................................................... 30 References ............................................................................................................................................................. 31 Appendices A Drawings B Intertidal Survey C Desk Based Archaeological Assessment Figures Figure 2-1: Hunterston Construction Yard .............................................................................................................. 2 Figure 2-2: Hunterston Construction Yard Dock Egress .......................................................................................... 2 Figure 2-3: Approximate Locations of Proposed Development .............................................................................. 4 i Peel Ports February 2017 Hunterston Construction Yard; Environmental Review Figure 3-1: Schematic of Caisson Location (approximately 75m length) ................................................................ 9 Tables Table 3.1: Tidal range at Millport ............................................................................................................................ 7 Table 4.1: Peak Overwintering Count of Selected Species at Hunterston Sands and Southannan Sands ............ 13 Table 4.2: Category 1 Disturbance Events 2013/14 .............................................................................................. 14 Table 4.3: Category 2 Disturbance Events 2013/14 .............................................................................................. 14 Table 4.4: Category 3 Disturbance Events 2013/14 .............................................................................................. 14 Table 4.5: Category 1 Disturbance Events 2014/15 .............................................................................................. 15 Table 4.6: Category 2 Disturbance Events 2014/15 .............................................................................................. 15 Table 4.7: Category 3 Disturbance Events 2014/15 .............................................................................................. 15 ii 1 INTRODUCTION Peel Ports own Hunterston Marine Construction Yard which is currently underutilised. It is therefore planned to amend Condition 1 of planning consent N/16/00268/PP to allow not only the construction but also the decommissioning/reverse engineering of large marine related structures. This will require improvements to the hammerhead quay (and associated dredging) and creation of dock gates to the existing dry dock. 1.1 Site Location The existing Peel Ports Hunterston Marine Construction Yard, lies on the Firth of Clyde, north of
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