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Strategic Environmental Assessment – Environmental Report Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011 – 2026 Strategic Environmental Assessment – Environmental Report Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011-2026 Strategic Environmental Assessment Environmental Report Consultation Draft October 2010 Sustainable Transport Group ENVIRON UK Ltd Department of Neighbourhood and Planning 11-14 Swallow Court Wiltshire Council Devonshire Gate County Hall Tiverton Bythesea Road Devon Trowbridge EX16 7EJ Wiltshire BA14 8JN © Wiltshire Council ISBN: 978-0-86080-556-4 Non-technical summary Non-technical summary ii Main report 1 Introduction 1 2 Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 4 3 Environmental and planning context 6 4 Evaluation of LTP3 22 5 Assessment of options 24 6 Evaluation of the draft plan 34 7 Monitoring measures 43 8 Next steps 47 Appendix A A Review of other plans and programmes 1 Appendix B B Baseline information 18 Appendix C C Assessment of options 73 Appendix D D Evaluation of the draft plan 297 Appendix E E Assessment of options for further development 333 Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011-2026 • Strategic Environmental Assessment • Non-technical summary Introduction This report is the non-technical summary (NTS) of the Environmental Report for Wiltshire's third Local Transport Plan.This NTS provides a summary in non-technical language of the Environmental Report. The Environmental Report sets out the results of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011 - 2026 (LTP3). The purpose of the Environmental Report is to give consultees information on the potential environmental and sustainability effects of the draft LTP3 and to assist Wiltshire Council in improving the final LTP3. Both the NTS and Environmental Report have been written by Wiltshire Council with independent consultants ENVIRON UK Ltd providing SEA training, support and verification of the SEA outputs. What is a Strategic Environmental Assessment? Wiltshire Council is required to carry out a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the LTP3 in accordance with the requirements of Statutory Instrument 2004 No. 1633: The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004 (otherwise known as SEA Regulations). The Regulations apply to all plans in certain sectors (including transport) that have the potential to cause significant environmental effects and which also set the framework for environmental impact assessments (EIA) of individual projects. SEA extends the assessment of environmental impacts from individual development projects to the broader perspective of county and local level plans. SEAs would have previously made assessments at a regional level too; however the election of a new coalition government has meant that regional government offices and associated strategies and plans have been scrapped and therefore assessments at this level are not now necessary.The main purpose of the SEA is to evaluate whether the plan will result in any significant environmental effects, both positive and negative. Should significant effects be forecast, then recommendations are to be made as to how these can be avoided, or offset or reduced. A programme to monitor all significant effects during the lifetime of the plan must be prepared as part of the SEA. In this way, SEA is a systematic process that helps plan makers in identifying, and therefore reducing, the environmental impacts of a plan. The SEA process also considers certain social economic issues. What is an Environmental Report? This Environmental Report (ER) represents the results of the SEA process that has been undertaken in parallel with the production of LTP3. It has also been published to coincide with the LTP3 consultation process, so that stakeholders and the public are given the opportunity to comment on the results of the SEA at the same time as making any comments on the content of the LTP3. Consultation with statutory environmental bodies, Natural England, English Heritage, and the Environment Agency, and other local groups was undertaken during Stage A, the scoping stage, of the SEA process. These consultations have helped guide the assessment. Wiltshire's LTP3 The Local Transport Act 2008 requires local transport authorities, including unitary authorities, in England to produce and maintain a LTP. This is the third LTP produced by Wiltshire Council. The LTP3 covers the period 2011-2026, and sets out the council's approach to tackling the current problems and future challenges for the transport system in Wiltshire. Page ii • Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011-2026 • Strategic Environmental Assessment • The LTP3 sets out the strategy, objectives and implementation plan for all forms of transport. It aims to meet national and local priorities, including the government's national transport goals for delivering a sustainable transport system, which are: to support national economic competitiveness and growth, by delivering reliable and efficient transport networks to reduce transport’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, with the desired outcome of tackling climate change to contribute to better safety, security and health and longer life expectancy through reducing the risk of death, injury or illness arising from transport, and promoting travel modes that are beneficial to health to promote greater equality of opportunity for all citizens, with the desired outcome of achieving a fairer society to improve quality of life for transport users and non-transport users, and to promote a healthy natural environment. The strategy part of the LTP3 will cover the period 2011/12 - 2025/26 to tie in with the emerging Wiltshire Local Development Framework (LDF) Core Strategy. Reviews of the LTP strategy would be undertaken to coincide with reviews of the LDF Core Strategy. The draft LTP3 contains 18 strategic objectives, which were developed following Department for Transport (DfT) guidance and which reflect local circumstances. These are as follows: Table NTS1: Wiltshire Local Transport Plan (2011-2026) strategic objectives Ref. Strategic objective SO1 To support and help improve the vitality, viability and resilience of Wiltshire's economy and market towns. SO2 To provide, support and/or promote a choice of sustainable transport alternatives including walking, cycling, buses and rail. SO3 To reduce the impact of traffic on people's quality of life and Wiltshire's built and natural environment. SO4 To minimise traffic delays and disruption and improve journey time reliability on key routes. SO5 To improve sustainable access to a full range of opportunities particularly for those people without access to a car. SO6 To make the best use of the existing infrastructure through effective design, management and maintenance. SO7 To enhance Wiltshire's public realm and streetscape. SO8 To improve safety for all road users and to reduce the number of casualties on Wiltshire's roads. SO9 To reduce the impact of traffic speeds in towns and villages. SO10 To encourage the efficient and sustainable distribution of freight around Wiltshire. SO11 To reduce the level of air pollutant and climate change emissions from transport. SO12 To support planned growth in Wiltshire and ensure that new developments adequately provide for their sustainable transport requirements and mitigate their traffic impacts. SO13 To reduce the need to travel, particularly by private car. Wiltshire Local Transport Plan 2011-2026 • Strategic Environmental Assessment • • Page iii Ref. Strategic objective SO14 To promote travel modes that are beneficial to health. SO15 To reduce barriers to transport and access for people with disabilities and mobility impairment. SO16 To improve the resilience of the transport system to impacts such as adverse weather, climate change and peak oil. SO17 To improve access to Wiltshire's countryside and provide a more usable public rights of way network. SO18 To enhance the journey experience of transport users. Relationship with other plans and programmes The Regulations (see schedule 2) state that an Environmental Report should outline: the plan's relationship with other relevant plans and programmes the environmental protection objectives, established at international, community or member state level, which are relevant to the plan or programme and the way those objectives and any environmental considerations have been taken into account during its preparation. To fulfil this requirement, a review of relevant plans, policies and programmes has been carried out to identify environmental objectives which may provide constraints or synergies with the plan being formulated. This review has covered international conventions to EU policies through to local plans and strategies. National transport goals The national transport goals are used as the main strategy framework for LTP3. These goals are as follows: To support national economic competitiveness and growth, by delivering reliable and efficient transport networks To reduce transport’s emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, with the desired outcome of tackling climate change To contribute to better safety security and health and longer life-expectancy by reducing the risk of death, injury or illness arising from transport and by promoting travel modes that are beneficial to health To promote greater equality of opportunity for all citizens, with the desired outcome of achieving a fairer society To improve quality of life for transport users and non-transport users, and to promote a healthy natural environment. Regional spatial strategy The
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