Environmental Statement Addendum
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Project Number: ENVIMSW002194 AVONMOUTH SEVERNSIDE ENTERPRISE AREA (ASEA) ECOLOGY MITIGATION AND FLOOD DEFENCE SCHEME Stockpile at land off A403 at Northwick – ES Addendum Stockpile at land off A403 at Northwick – ES Addendum S8 – Shared for client review, comment and/or acceptance Revision P02 1 Project Number: ENVIMSW002194 Issue and Revision Record Revision Date Originator Checker Approver Description 01 07/11/19 C Postlethwaite S. Booley, J. M Secker For client & E Haggett Faber & M Reid approval 02 04/12/19 C Postlethwaite S. Booley, J. M Secker For issue & E Haggett Faber & M Reid Document reference: ENVIMSW002194-BMM-XX-A10-RP-EN-0301019 EA file naming and file metadata BS1192 file name Stockpile at Northwick Landfill – ES Addendum BS1192 suitability S8 – Shared for client review, comment and/or acceptance Revision P02 EA deliverable reference C0010_19 EA work stage EA4 Level of Development LOD4 Title Stockpile at Northwick Landfill – ES Addendum Information class: Standard This document is issued for the party which commissioned it and for specific purposes connected with the above-captioned project only. It should not be relied upon by any other party or used for any other purpose. We accept no responsibility for the consequences of this document being relied upon by any other party, or being used for any other purpose, or containing any error or omission which is due to an error or omission in data supplied to us by other parties. 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Stockpile at land off A403 at Northwick – ES Addendum S8 – Shared for client review, comment and/or acceptance Revision P02 2 Project Number: ENVIMSW002194 Introduction 5 Scheme description 9 Legislation and policy context 17 Consultation 20 Population and human health 22 Biodiversity 25 Landscape character and visual amenity 30 Water Environment, Flood Risk and Water Framework Directive 33 Archaeology and cultural heritage 38 Geology and Soils 40 Land Use 43 Air quality 45 Climate change 47 Major accidents and disasters 49 Noise and Vibration 52 Cumulative effects 61 Conclusion 64 Glossary 70 Appendices 74 Stockpile at land off A403 at Northwick – ES Addendum S8 – Shared for client review, comment and/or acceptance Revision P02 3 Project Number: ENVIMSW002194 Tables Table 1-1: Significance matrix 7 Table 4-1 : Consultation carried out for the ASEA scheme 20 Table 4-2 : Consultation carried out for the proposed stockpiling 21 Table 6-1: Statutory designated sites 26 Table 6-2: Non-statutory designated sites 26 Table 10-1: Conceptual ground model for the proposed development area 40 Table 10-2: Mitigation Measures 41 Table 15-1: Example threshold of potential significant effect at dwellings 54 Table 15-2: Examples of time periods, averaging times and noise levels associated with the determination of eligibility of noise insulation 54 Table 15-3: Summary of plant for construction works 56 Table 15-4: Stockpiling noise predictions 56 Table 15-5: Internal Haul Road Noise Predictions 57 Table 16-1: Potential cumulative effects between the proposed stockpiling and the ASEA scheme 62 Table 17-1: Population and health aspects, effects and mitigation measures 64 Figures Figure 2-1: The ASEA Scheme 11 Figure 2-2 : Figure The Proposed Stockpile 14 Figure 2-3 : Alternative Stockpile Location Considered 15 Stockpile at land off A403 at Northwick – ES Addendum S8 – Shared for client review, comment and/or acceptance Revision P02 4 Project Number: ENVIMSW002194 Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this report This document is the Environmental Statement (ES) addendum for the planning application for stockpiling (‘the proposed stockpile’) of embankment fill material (soil), associated with the construction of the Avonmouth and Severnside Enterprise Area (ASEA) Flood Defence and Ecology Mitigation Project (‘the ASEA scheme’). The ASEA scheme is being promoted by a partnership of Bristol City Council (BCC) and South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) and the Environment Agency. The purpose of this report is to provide an addendum to the ES produced in 2018 (‘the ASEA ES’), to assess the proposed changes to the stockpiling arrangements for the construction of the ASEA scheme, namely the new location for the proposed stockpile, and to present the findings of the assessment undertaken as part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process. The EIA is being completed under the Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/ 571) (‘the EIA Regulations’). 1.2 Scope of the ES addendum The baseline for this ES addendum is the assessment carried out within the ASEA ES. The ASEA ES assessed a stockpile within Area 5 of the ASEA scheme, as shown in Figure 2-1 below. As described in Section 2, the proposed stockpile location has now moved due to concerns around potential impacts to historic ridge and furrow field patterns within Area 5, and this ES addendum therefore assesses the new location for the proposed stockpile, including the difference between the two proposed locations. No other elements of the ASEA scheme have changed, and therefore this ES addendum only relates to the new changed location of the proposed stockpile. Therefore the ASEA scoping report prepared by CH2M (Jacobs) in July 2017 was deemed to remain valid prior to the production of this ES addendum. Topics considered within the ASEA ES have been deemed applicable to this ES addendum and have been incorporated. in order to comply with the EIA Regulations additional topics have been included, furthermore noise and vibration has been scoped in. Due to necessary considerations surrounding potential dust creation associated with stockpiling material, air quality has been scoped in as an additional topic within this ES addendum. The following topics are considered within this report: • Population and human health; • Biodiversity; • Landscape character and visual amenity; • Water and water framework directive (WFD); Stockpile at land off A403 at Northwick – ES Addendum S8 – Shared for client review, comment and/or acceptance Revision P02 5 Project Number: ENVIMSW002194 • Archaeology and cultural heritage; • Geology and soils; • Land use; • Air quality; • Climate change; • Major accidents and disasters; and • Noise & vibration. 1.3 Approach to the ES addendum This ES has been produced as a requirement of the Town and Country EIA Regulations (2017) and the purpose is to report on environmental impacts arising from projects that are potentially likely to be deemed significant (further detailed in Section 3). As this ES addendum has been produced in line with the ASEA ES, it has been undertaken with reference to the following documents: • Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2017 (SI 2017/571); • Guidelines for Environmental Impact Assessment, Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), 2004; and • EIA planning practice guidance, DCLG, 2014.