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Environmental Report Prepared by Perth & Kinross Council TAYplan Main Issues Report Acknowledgements: © 2009 Perth & Kinross Council. Limited extracts from the text may be reproduced provided the source is acknowledged Includes material based upon Ordnance Survey mapping with permission of HM Stationary Office. Some features of the maps are based on digital spatial data licensed from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. © NERC. © The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute 2010. Reproduced with permission. User Licence MI/2010/327 © Some features of the maps are based on digital spatial data licensed from The Macaulay Land Research Institute 2009. User License No. MI/2009/315 Some features of the maps are based on data licensed from: © Forestry Commission © Scottish Natural Heritage © Royal Society for the Protection of Birds © Historic Scotland © Defra © Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority © Cairngorm National Park Authority © Scottish Government © General Register Office Scotland © SNIFFER Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right (2010) All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100016971 Includes mapping data based on Ordnance Survey 1:50, 000 maps with permission of HMSO Crown copyright and/or database right 2006. Licence100017572 TAYplan Main Issues Report - Environmental Report CONTENTS Glossary 4 Acronyms 6 Tables and Figures 8 Section 1: Introduction Requirement for SEA 10 Scope for SEA 10 Overall approach 11 Section 2: Plan Context TAYplan Area 13 Main Issues Report 14 The TAYplan Vision 14 The TAYplan Spatial Strategy 16 Land Requirement for New Development 16 Planned Population Growth Scenario for Dundee 16 Development of Spatial Strategies 18 Strategy A: Principle Settlements 20 Strategy B: Principle Settlements with dispersal around the Perth Housing Market Area 21 Section 3: Environmental Baseline Introduction 23 Relevant Plans, Policies and Strategies 23 'National' Level plans 22 Summary of Relevant PPS and Environmental Objectives 24 Baseline data and Issue of Relevance 27 Environmental Facts for the TAYplan Area 28 Summary of Main Environmental Issues in TAYplan Area 31 Evolution of Environmental Baseline Without SDP 33 Data Gaps and Problems 39 Section 4: SEA Methodology Level of Assessment 40 Iteration with MIR Process 41 Overall Approach 41 Assessment of MIR Proposals 42 1 TAYplan Main Issues Report - Environmental Report Level 1 Assessment of Vision 42 Level 2 Assessment of Spatial Strategy 42 SEA Objectives 44 Section 5: Assessment of the TAYplan Vision Framework Inter-compatibility of MIR Objectives 47 Compatibility with SEA Objectives 48 Conclusions 49 Section 6: Potential Impacts in the Proposed Settlement Hierarchy Dundee Core Area 54 Perth Core Area. 54 Greater Perth Housing Market Area 62 Tier 2 & 3 Settlements 67 Section 7: Comparative Analysis of the Proposed Spatial Strategies Strategy A 72 Strategy B 79 Comparative Analysis of Strategy A and B 88 Biodiversity 88 Population and Human Health 89 . Soil and Land 89 Water 90 Air 91 Climatic Factors 92 Material Assets 92 Landscape 93 Cultural Heritage 94 Conclusions 95 Section 8: Cumulative Effects with other Plans Assessment of Cumulative Effects 96 Section 9: Enhancement and Mitigation Enhancement of MIR Proposals 103 Summary of Potential Impacts from the Vision and the Spatial Strategy 104 Mitigation Proposals 105 Biodiversity 105 Water 105 2 TAYplan Main Issues Report - Environmental Report Landscape 106 Historic Environment 106 Soil and Land 107 Material Assets/Waste Management 107 Section 10: Monitoring Monitoring Proposals 108 Section 11: Next Steps Consideration of SEA Findings....................................................................112 Consultation Questions ...............................................................................112 Appendices Appendix 1 114 Relevant Plans and Programmes with environmental objectives relevant to the environmental assessment of The TAYplan Appendix 2 Baseline 129 A: Strategic Constraints maps and development pressure B: Biodiversity maps C: Population change and density maps D: Landscape sensitivity map (PAL woodlands etc) E: Water quality maps including SEPA consultation areas map F: Air and CC (flood) maps G: Landfill site map I: Historic environment map 3 TAYplan Main Issues Report - Environmental Report GLOSSARY These are different ways of achieving the objectives of the plan. Alternatives Alternatives are also referred to as options. “Alternative” is the term used in this document. The variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to Biodiversity ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it Organisations with a particular status for involvement in the SEA Consultation under the Regulations. In Scotland these are the Scottish Natural Authorities Heritage, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Ministers (Historic Scotland). Includes scheduled monuments and other significant archaeological sites and landscapes, listed buildings, Cultural conservation areas, historic gardens and designed landscapes Heritage included in the published inventory and any others of national and Corporate importance which are likely to be included. The effects that result from changes caused by a project, plan, programme or policy in association with other past, present or Cumulative reasonably foreseeable future plans and actions. Cumulative effects effects are specifically noted in the SEA Directive in order to emphasise the need for broad and comprehensive information regarding the effects. Measures envisaged to maximise the benefits of the positive Enhancement actions of implementing the plan A tool for integrating environmental considerations into decision making by assessing the significant environmental effects. In the SEA Directive, an environmental assessment means "the Environmental preparation of an Environmental Report, the carrying out of assessment consultations, the taking into account of the Environmental Report and the results of the consultations in decision-making and the provision of information on the decision", in accordance with the Directive's requirements. It has at its heart the notion of righting a wrong; correcting an unjustly imposed burden whereas environmental equity typically Environmental focuses on sharing burdens. It is about those who are deprived justice their environmental rights because they are poor, women, children or because of their race. Document required by the SEA Directive as part of an Environmental environmental assessment, which identifies, describes and Report evaluates the likely significant effects on the environment of implementing a plan or programme. A means by which change in a system or to an objective can be Indicator measured. Used in this guidance to refer to measures to avoid, reduce or Mitigation offset significant adverse effects on the environment. Activities undertaken after the decision is made to adopt the plan Monitoring or programme to examine its implementation. For example, monitoring to examine whether the significant environmental effects occur as predicted or to establish whether mitigation and 4 TAYplan Main Issues Report - Environmental Report enhancement measures are implemented and are working. Natura 2000 Under the EU Habitats Directive SPAs and SACs are together intended to form a European-wide network of protected areas designed to maintain or restore the distribution and abundance of species and habitats of EU interest. Many areas qualify for both SPA and SAC designation and as a matter of Government policy sites designated under the Ramsar Convention are afforded the same level of protection. Objective A statement of what is intended, specifying the desired direction of change. Options See alternatives. Responsible Under the Act, the authority by which or on whose behalf the plan Authority is prepared, or its successor. Secondary Effects which are attributable to the plan but which may not be effects obvious or direct. Secondary effects are specifically noted in the SEA Directive in order to emphasise the need for broad and comprehensive information regarding the effects. Soil Sealing The covering of the soil surface with impervious materials as a result of urban development and infrastructure construction. Sealed areas are lost to uses such as agriculture or forestry while the ecological soil functions are severely impaired or even prevented (e.g. soil working as a buffer and filter system or as a carbon sink). In addition, surrounding soils may be influenced by change in water flow patterns or the fragmentation of habitats. Sustainable This concept recognises that achieving economic growth has to development be done in such a way that does not harm the environment or squander the natural resources we depend on, whilst at the same time distributing the wealth this creates equally to improve quality of life now and in the future. Synergistic A type of cumulative effect where two or more impacts combine effects to produce a complex interaction where the effect may be larger or smaller that component impacts. Synergistic effects are specifically noted in the SEA Directive in order to emphasise the need for broad and comprehensive information regarding the effects. SEA Act Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005 SEA Directive Directive 2001/42/EC "on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment". Tiering The linking of assessments for policies, plans, programmes
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