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Tiree Onshore Scenario Mapping Argyll & Bute Council Appendix 4 – Assessment Matrices Page 1 Appendix 4 Assessment Matrices 1.0 Scenario 1 Scenario 1 Summary Description An onshore base on the island (office/warehouse/yard) with up to five workboats and one helicopter accessing the array. Requires a harbour or breakwater Onshore O&M Base – On Tiree An onshore base would have a Tiree base operating between the O&M office and workshops, harbour and helipad. Detailed Description Scenario 1 therefore has significant direct implications for Tiree in terms of O&M activity with impacts or benefits occurring at the O&M base, which is assumed to be at the harbour with possible facilities at the airport. Scenario 1 – Onshore O&M Base – New Harbour/Breakwater Required Mechanism to secure Requirement for Issues and Comments Economic Objectives Scenario Supports the Objective? Objective? Mitigation? Associated with Consultations Overall Economic Objective Scenario 1 offers the potential for significant Partnership working between Strengthening clarity of O&M The community are aware of both To ensure O&M helps to extend the employment that would support wider policies public and private sector around requirements and opportunity and impact wider aspiration of Scottish Government for sustainable economic development and build agreed target outcomes. assurances around associated with the proposed to create the conditions for sustainable additional capacity and resilience within the opportunities and mitigation array and are seeking early clarity economic growth and address regional island economy. around commitments. and spatial disparities. Scenario 1 support increased local employment Developing an Employment Advance skills programmes Employment benefits are a key Employment through direct and indirect jobs estimated at 150 Charter with SPR promoting required developed through local benefit of any future array. To seek to increase local employment of which 38 are anticipated to be local. measures associated with: Renewable Energy Action Assurances around building local opportunities that support skills and The Challenge: Employment access Plan (REAP). Lead time 2-3 capacity; local job access and training and opportunities for young Making accessible local jobs Apprenticeships years. Undertaking to flexibility of working arrangements people whilst growing the locally Developing skills Adult skills training include Employment Charter are all important to the local employed population base and non- Avoiding substitution elements within SPR communities. seasonal job opportunities. Educational bursaries Training/ Other procurement. Scenario 1 offers the potential to support the Early feasibility study advanced Fishing is a key local industry with Fishing fishing sector with the provision of a public with CMAL to conclude feasibility sensitivities in an island To seek to maintain the fishing industry Wider fishing interests access harbour / breakwater. of new harbour provision and community. at current levels and/or support modest relative to the proposed The Challenge: mechanisms and programme for sustainable growth through array are addressed with Creating new facilities of a scale that allows delivery. Feasibility study to Support for the fishing sector improvements to infrastructure and Fishermen’s Liaison Group for multiple use / management inform detailed area would offer an outcome with secondary support for fishing incomes. Access to employment would support masterplanning. strong local support. IronsideFarrar 7702 / October 2012 Tiree Onshore Scenario Mapping Argyll & Bute Council Appendix 4 – Assessment Matrices Page 2 Scenario 1 – Onshore O&M Base – New Harbour/Breakwater Required Mechanism to secure Requirement for Issues and Comments Economic Objectives Scenario Supports the Objective? Objective? Mitigation? Associated with Consultations secondary fishing incomes Developing skills Avoiding employment substitution Commitment through sensitive Scenario 1 offers the potential to support the land use planning to ensure: crofting/agricultural sector with the provision of a No significant loss of Need to maintain consultation and dialogue Agriculture harbour / breakwater and would therefore agricultural land with Tiree Rural To seek to maintain current land increase reliability of ferry services and access No loss of ferry capacity Agriculture is a key local industry Development (TRD), management practice and capacity to markets, goods and services but there is a No changes to existing land with sensitivities in an island Crofting Association and including access to markets and need to support this sector through: management practices community. NFUS for any land based sustaining agricultural / crofting Access to employment to support secondary New employment that can O&M facilities that may have employment crofting incomes support agricultural incomes a potential impact on Developing skills Improvements to ICT / agricultural practices Avoiding employment substitution Broadband – superfast connection Harbour Infrastructure clearly needs to A growing population would A harbour facility created by a breakwater match any intensification of introduce both opportunity and offering pontoon / quay access will be use whether this be and impacts with mitigation Transport is a hugely important required. associated with harbour/airport dependent on investment in issue for Tiree and Scenario 1 Offering safe haven for workboats all year or roads. Local road upgrades local capacity. Discussions has greatest potential for impacts round may offer wider benefits as will be progressed with a to existing capacities : Pontoon and Quay facilities would development of the number of key service • Need to maintain adequate Transport 150 (+10)m sheltered pontoon length harbour. Issues requiring to be providers to identify any service provision To seek to maintain and enhance addressed would include: specific measures or • Island communities are reliant transportation access within the modes Marine fuel bunkering (200,000l capacity) Harbour improvements may responses. on transport for goods and of air, sea and road with appropriate serviced and refuelled by sea-barge. It is not offer wider support to existing • Discussions with CMAL / services, business improvements to infrastructure or anticipated that workboat fuelling would local businesses e.g. Calmac and HIAL connections, family service levels that recognise the needs require fuel import by ferry. Creating access for fishing / regarding Lifeline connections and access to a of all sectors. Airport / Heliport The O&M operation could be supported by a recreational boats and services range of services on the helicopter base either at the harbour or improving ferry weather • Discussion with Argyll mainland including healthcare, potentially at the airport. Helicopter provision protection and Bute Council and employment and education would include a hangar, helipad and fuel Helicopter flights paths across relevant health providers and shopping etc bunkering. Flight levels are currently under defined sea routes could • A harbour is a assessment but worst case numbers suggest mitigate island over-flying. requirement to support 7-12 return flights per day. Protecting existing air and sea this scenario IronsideFarrar 7702 / October 2012 Tiree Onshore Scenario Mapping Argyll & Bute Council Appendix 4 – Assessment Matrices Page 3 Scenario 1 – Onshore O&M Base – New Harbour/Breakwater Required Mechanism to secure Requirement for Issues and Comments Economic Objectives Scenario Supports the Objective? Objective? Mitigation? Associated with Consultations Local Roads capacity The O&M operation may require some local Road Network upgrading but only in the Scenario 1 O&M operations by immediate local area of the O&M Base or increasing island population will between the base and the harbour. Access to place additional demand on air the harbour / breakwater will be required for and ferry connections. An vehicles. If helipad facilities were located at increase in population will the airport volumes of traffic are unlikely to be require a review of current air significant. and ferry capacity. Vehicular ferry capacity at weekends & in the summer months is near or at capacity. Reducing ferry cancellations and any improvement to capacity would offer local benefits. Scenario 1 offers the potential to support the Commitment through sensitive Need to maintain Tourism is a hugely important tourism sector with the provision of a harbour / land use planning to ensure: consultation and dialogue sector for Tiree and Scenario 1 breakwater and would therefore increase No significant loss of with Crofting Association and has greatest potential for impacts Tourism reliability of ferry services. Recognising agricultural land NFUS for any land based to existing capacities : To seek to maintain the ‘special Challenges re: O&M facilities that may have • Need to maintain ferry qualities of place’ that support the No loss of ferry capacity Access to employment to support tourism a potential impact on capacities particularly during tourism sector recognising the No changes to existing land incomes agricultural practices the peak summer months importance of sports / leisure / management practices • Need to forward plan for recreation and cultural heritage to the Developing skills New employment that can increased accommodations tourism economy. Avoiding employment substitution support agricultural incomes