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Sustainability Appraisal for WCS Site Options (Stage 2) Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy Strategic Waste Sites STAGE 2 SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL REPORT Prepared for Gloucestershire County Council by Land Use Consultants September 2009 14 Great George Street Bristol BS1 5RH Tel: 01179 291 997 Fax: 01179 291 998 [email protected] CONTENTS 1. Introduction ......................................................................................... 1 Purpose of the Sustainability Appraisal ..................................................................................................1 Background...................................................................................................................................................2 Aim and Structure of the Report ............................................................................................................3 2. Sustainability Appraisal Process ........................................................ 7 Stages and Tasks in SA...............................................................................................................................7 Stage A: Setting the context and objectives, establishing the baseline and deciding on the scope..............................................................................................................................................................8 Stage B: Developing and refining options and assessing effects........................................................9 Assessing Sustainability Effects ...............................................................................................................10 Stage C: Preparing the Sustainability Appraisal Report ....................................................................11 Stage D: Consulting on the DPD and SA Report ..............................................................................11 Stage E: Monitoring Implementation of the Plan................................................................................11 3. Appraisal Method and Assumptions................................................ 13 Development of SA objectives...............................................................................................................13 Assumptions and factors taken into account during the SA ...........................................................15 Determining significance..........................................................................................................................16 Limitations of sustainability appraisal as a tool for site selection...................................................19 Site appraisal methodology .....................................................................................................................19 Summary of Stage 1 SA methodology ..................................................................................................20 Stage 2 SA methodology..........................................................................................................................20 4. Appraisal of the Strategic Waste Site Options.............................. 21 Summary of SA Findings ..........................................................................................................................21 Short, medium and long term effects ...................................................................................................21 Significant effects .......................................................................................................................................22 Potential sustainability effects by SA Objective..................................................................................23 Conclusions................................................................................................................................................32 Recommendations ....................................................................................................................................32 Implementation..........................................................................................................................................33 5. Monitoring.......................................................................................... 35 Proposals for monitoring.........................................................................................................................35 Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy i Land Use Consultants SA Report Strategic Waste Sites Stage 2 September 2009 APPENDICES Appendix 1 SA Framework and assumptions used in assessing effects Appendix 2 Site SA Schedules: Sites within Zone C Appendix 3: Site SA Schedules: Sites outside of Zone C Appendix 4: Spatial Options Schedules Appendix 5: Summaries of SA Findings by SA Objective Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy ii Land Use Consultants SA Report Strategic Waste Sites Stage 2 September 2009 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) as Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) and Waste Planning Authority (WPA) has been working on a Minerals & Waste Development Framework (MWDF) that will replace its currently adopted Minerals Local Plan and Waste Local Plan. To date, Gloucestershire County Council’s Minerals & Waste Planning Policy Team has been working on the preparation of the following documents within the MWDF: • An SPD on Waste Minimisation in Development Projects (Adopted September 2006) • The Minerals Core Strategy (MCS) (Consultation completed on Preferred Options) • The Waste Core Strategy (WCS) (Consultation completed on Preferred Options) 1.2. The preparation of the MWDF documents is being subject to a full sustainability appraisal (SA), in line with the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and current Government planning policy (PPS 121). The preparation of the MWDF documents must also be in accordance with the requirements of European Directive 2001/42/EC (known as the strategic environment assessment, or SEA Directive). PURPOSE OF THE SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL 1.3. The purpose of sustainability appraisal is to promote sustainable development by integrating sustainability considerations in to the preparation and adoption of plans. 1.4. The objective of strategic environmental assessment, as defined in Article 1 of the SEA Directive is ‘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….with a view to promoting sustainable development’. 1.5. The 2005 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) guidance on sustainability appraisal2 (“SA Guidance”) explains the difference between environmental assessments required under the SEA Directive and sustainability appraisal of development plans as required by the UK Government. There are many parallels but also some differences, and the guidance clearly shows how assessment to comply with the SEA Directive can be integrated with current practice on sustainability appraisal. Simply put, sustainability appraisal includes a wider range of considerations, extending to social and economic impacts of plans, whereas SEA is more focussed on environmental impacts. The SA guidance describes how it is possible to satisfy both requirements through a single appraisal process undertaking a joint SA/SEA3. 1 Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning. Communities and Local Government, 2008 2 Sustainability Appraisal of Regional Spatial Strategies and Local Development Frameworks. Guidance for Regional Planning Bodies and Local Planning Authorities. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, November 2005. 3 From this point on, references to the Sustainability Appraisal (SA) shall be taken as meaning the SA incorporating SEA. Gloucestershire Waste Core Strategy 1 Land Use Consultants Stage 2 SA Report: Strategic Waste Sites September 2009 1.6. A key output of the SA process is a Sustainability Appraisal Report which describes which elements of the MWDF have been appraised and how, along with the likely significant sustainability effects of implementation of the MWDF. BACKGROUND 1.7. To date GCC has undertaken its Sustainability Appraisal work ‘in-house’4 in terms of the development of the SA Framework and SA Reports. Table 1.1 presents the SA Reports produced by GCC as part of the development of the SPD on Waste Minimisation in Development Projects (Adopted), the Waste Core Strategy and the Minerals Core Strategy (up to the Preferred Options consultation in 2008). All of the reports are available on GCC’s website: www.gloucestershire.gov.uk5 Table 1.1 SA Reports produced to date for the MWDF by Gloucestershire County Council SA Document Date Original SA Framework Context & Scoping Report August 2005 Update 1 SA Framework Context & Scoping Report November 2005 Update 2 SA Framework Context & Scoping Report April 2006 Update 3 SA Framework Context & Scoping Report January 2009 SA Framework Combined Context & Scoping Report for Waste July 2008 – added Sites into Update 3 SA Framework Context & Scoping Reports Update 3 SA Report for Waste Minimisation in Development Projects SPD April 2006 SA Report for the Waste Core Strategy Issues & Options July 2006 SA Report for the Minerals Core Strategy Issues & Options September 2006 SA Report for the Waste Core Strategy Preferred Options January 2008 SA Report for the Minerals Core Strategy Preferred Options January 2008 1.8. Consultation was carried out on the Minerals Core Strategy and Waste Core Strategy Preferred Options between January and March 2008. Since then, changes
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