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SA) Incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA The Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local Development Plan Sustainability Appraisal (SA) incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report July 2011 CONTENTS Page 1. INTRODUCTION 1 Background The Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local Development Plan (JLDP) Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment Habitats Regulations Assessment Other Appraisals and Assessments This Report 2. METHODOLOGY 6 Introduction Stages in the SA/SEA Process The Scoping Stage Data Limitations Consultation 3. BIODIVERSITY 12 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 4. COMMUNITIES 15 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 5. CLIMATIC FACTORS 19 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 6. CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 7. ECONOMY 23 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 8. HOUSING 26 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 9. LANDSCAPE 29 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 10. SOILS, MINERALS, WASTE 30 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 11. TRANSPORT 33 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 12. WATER 34 Summary of current situation and trends Key issues from baseline analysis Sustainability issues and opportunities Key messages from plans and programmes review 13. THE SA/SEA FRAMEWORK 39 Background Methodology Internal compatibility of SA/SEA objectives 14. CONSULTATION AND NEXT STEPS 46 Consultation Next Steps List of Figures Figure 2.1: The relationship between the SA/SEA and the LDP process Figure 2.2: Relationship of key tasks in the Scoping stage Figure 13.1: Key to Compatibility Assessment List of Tables Table 2.1: Key Stages and tasks in the SA process Table 2.2: Key Tasks in Stage A of the SA Process Table 13.1: Draft SA Framework of Objectives Table 13.2: Compatibility of SEA/SA Objectives Table 14.1: Outline of next stages in the SA/SEA process Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local Development Plan SA Scoping Report 1. INTRODUCTION Background 1.1 This Scoping Report represents the first component of the Sustainability Appraisal (SA) of Anglesey and Gwynedd’s emerging Joint Local Development Plan (JLDP). In accordance with government guidance, the SA also incorporates the requirements for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) under the EU Directive 2001/42/EC. The Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local Development Plan (JLDP) 1.2 The requirement for each Local Planning Authority (LPA) to produce a Local Development Plan (LDP) is set out in Part 6 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, 2004. A LDP is a land use plan that is subject to independent examination, which will form the statutory development plan for a local authority area for the purposes of the Act. It includes a vision, strategy, area- wide policies for development types, land allocations, and where necessary policies and proposals for key areas of change and protection. Policies and allocations are shown geographically on the Proposals Map forming part of the plan. 1.3 In accordance with the Planning Act (2004) all LDPs are required to be subject to a Sustainability Appraisal (SA). A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is also required under European Directive 2001/42/EC ‘on the assessment of certain plans and programmes on the environment’. This Scoping Report covers the statutory requirements for both SA and SEA. Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) 1.4 Sustainability Appraisal for LDPs is mandatory under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, 2004. SA covers social and economic effects of the LDP as well as environmental ones. Sustainability Appraisal seeks to ensure that the LDPs policies and proposals are consistent with the principles of sustainable development. 1.5 The five key principles of the UK Government’s current sustainable development strategy ‘Securing the Future’ (March 2005) are: living within environmental limits ensuring a strong, healthy and just society achieving a sustainable economy promoting good governance using sound science responsibly. 1.6 For Wales these aims are reflected in the Welsh Assembly Government’s (WAG) sustainable development scheme ‘One Wales, One Planet;’ (May 1 Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local Development Plan SA Scoping Report 2009) which defines sustainable development in the following terms: “Development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Sustainable Development in Wales In Wales, sustainable development means enhancing the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of people and communities, achieving a better quality of life for our own and future generations: In ways which promote social justice and equality of opportunity; and In ways which enhance the natural and cultural environment and respect its limits – using only our fair share of the earth’s resources and sustaining our cultural legacy. Sustainable development is the process by which we reach the goal of sustainability 1.7 In addition to the requirement to undertake a SA of the LDP, under European Directive 2001/42/EC, which is implemented in the UK via the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004, Local Development Plans should also be subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). SEA is a process to ensure that the significant environmental effects arising from plans and programmes are identified, assessed, mitigated, communicated to decision makers and monitored. 1.8 The SEA Directive came into force on 21 July 2004. The Directive makes it necessary for every public body to hold a SEA of its plans and programmes where there is a likelihood of a substantial impact on the environment and/or where a framework has been set up for development in the future. This means that it is necessary for the JLDP to be the subject of the Assessment. 1.9 It aims: “…to provide for a high level of protection of the environment and to contribute to the integration of environmental considerations into the preparation and adoption of plans and programmes with a view to promoting sustainable development, by ensuring that, in accordance with this Directive, an environmental assessment is carried out of certain plans and programmes which are likely to have significant effects on the environment” (Article 1). 1.10 The SEA Regulations require that defined environmental issues are covered in the assessment process, namely: • Biodiversity • Population • Human health • Fauna • Flora • Soil 2 Anglesey and Gwynedd Joint Local Development Plan SA Scoping Report • Water • Air • Climatic factors • Material assets • Cultural heritage • Landscape • The inter-relationship between the above 1.11 The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) advises that for development plans, the requirements of the SEA Directive are best incorporated into Sustainability Appraisal. The statutory requirements of both assessments can be satisfied through the single but integrated Sustainability Appraisal process. In order to satisfy Sustainability Appraisal requirements this report has a wider focus than merely environmental aspects and includes, in addition, social and economic data. Habitats Regulations Assessment 1.12 Under Article 6(3) of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), an appropriate assessment also needs to be undertaken in respect of any plan or project which: • Either alone or in combination with other plans or projects would be likely to have a significant effect on a site designated within the Natura 200 network; • Is not directly connected with the management of the site for nature conservation. 1.13 This requirement is transposed into national legislation in the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations, 2010. 1.14 The overarching aim is to determine, in view of a site’s conservation objectives and qualifying features, whether the plan, either in isolation and/or in combination with other plans would have an adverse effect on the integrity of the designated site. 1.15 Within the Gwynedd and Anglesey Plan Area, there are 25 sites that are designated at European level for their importance for nature conservation under the Habitats Directive. In addition the Council will ascertain whether there are European Sites within neighbouring authorities whose integrity may be adversely affected by the LDP. 1.16 The consultation draft Annex to TAN 5 (October 2006), which outlines how the Habitats Regulations should be implemented in respect to LDPs, states: “[Habitats Regulations Assessments] should
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