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PLANNING STATEMENT Pembroke Dock Infrastructure Project On behalf of Milford Haven Port Authority JPW1115 Planning Statement A February 2020 rpsgroup.com REPORT Document status Version Purpose of document Authored by Reviewed by Approved by Review date A Pre-application Consultation Dafydd Williams Andrew Lucas Andrew Lucas 20/02/2020 Approval for issue Andrew Lucas 20 February 2020 © Copyright RPS Group Limited. All rights reserved. The report has been prepared for the exclusive use of our client and unless otherwise agreed in writing by RPS Group Limited no other party may use, make use of or rely on the contents of this report. The report has been compiled using the resources agreed with the client and in accordance with the scope of work agreed with the client. No liability is accepted by RPS Group Limited for any use of this report, other than the purpose for which it was prepared. 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Prepared by: Prepared for: RPS Milford Haven Port Authority Dafydd Williams Mr A Rowlands Associate Engineering Project Manager 2 Callaghan Square Head Office, Gorsewood Drive Cardiff Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire SA73 3EP CF10 5AZ T +44 2920 668 662 T +44 1646 696 100 E [email protected] E [email protected] JPW1115 | Planning Statement | A | February 2020 rpsgroup.com Page i REPORT Contents 1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Background .................................................................................................................................... 1 2 POLICY CONTEXT .................................................................................................................................. 2 2.1 National Legislation, Policy and Guidance ..................................................................................... 2 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Paris Agreement (2015) ......... 2 Welsh Government Climate Emergency Declaration..................................................................... 2 Well Being and Future Generations Act 2015 ................................................................................ 2 The Milford Haven Conservancy Act 1958 .................................................................................... 3 Wales Spatial Plan Update 2008 ................................................................................................... 3 Consultation Draft National Development Framework 2020-2040 ................................................ 4 Welsh National Marine Plan ........................................................................................................... 4 Planning Policy Wales Edition 10 (December 2018) ..................................................................... 5 The Swansea Bay City Deal .......................................................................................................... 6 Technical Advice Note 5: Nature Conservation and Planning ....................................................... 6 Technical Advice Note 23: Economic Development (October 2014) ............................................. 7 Technical Advice Note 24: The Historic Environment (May 2017) ................................................ 7 2.2 Local Planning Policy ..................................................................................................................... 8 Pembrokeshire Local Development Plan (February 2013) ............................................................ 8 2.3 Planning Policy Context Summary ...............................................................................................10 3 KEY PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS...................................................................................................12 3.2 Economic development and employment ....................................................................................12 3.3 Renewable energy and climate change .......................................................................................13 3.4 Heritage ........................................................................................................................................14 3.5 Landscape and visual ..................................................................................................................16 3.6 Ecology .........................................................................................................................................18 Terrestrial .....................................................................................................................................18 Marine 18 Ecology Policy Considerations .....................................................................................................20 3.7 Transportation ..............................................................................................................................20 3.8 Amenity ........................................................................................................................................21 Noise and vibration ......................................................................................................................21 Air Quality .....................................................................................................................................21 Amenity Policy Considerations .....................................................................................................21 4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................23 JPW1115 | Planning Statement | A | February 2020 rpsgroup.com Page ii PLANNING STATEMENT 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1.1 This document has been prepared by RPS on behalf of Port of Milford Haven Authority (the applicant) regarding the proposed development at Pembroke Port, Pembroke Dock. 1.1.2 A detailed physical description of the existing site and the proposed development is provided within the accompanying Design and Access Statement (DAS) and Environmental Statement that this document should be read in conjunction with and is not, therefore, repeated here. 1.2 Background 1.2.1 In summary, the proposed development, Pembroke Dock Infrastructure, will facilitate the next generation of marine renewable energy technology and help to create a Marine Energy Engineering Centre of Excellence in the Swansea Bay City Region (SBCR), creating investment and jobs supported by the Swansea Bay City Deal (SBCD). It is one of the four main elements of the Pembroke Dock Marine (PDM) Project, a named project in the SBCD. 1.2.2 The proposed development is the outcome of lengthy period of consultation with Pembrokeshire County Council (PCC), Cadw and other stakeholders and consultees over the course of two years, focussing on the site’s location within the historic dockyard at Pembroke Port. 1.2.3 While the historic fabric of the historic dockyard has been compromised to a significant degree by successive phases of development over the course of its existence, the outcome of the process of consultation has been that there will be no wholesale irreversible loss of any statutorily designated historic asset within the application site as a result of the proposed development. Simultaneously, it will also accommodate modern large-scale marine engineering and fabrication buildings, open assembly and transition areas and a multi-purpose slipway with access to deep water and nearby marine testing and commercial deployment areas that will be attractive to marine renewable energy device developers and the associated suite of supporting marine businesses. 1.2.4 The proposal will deliver a large number of high quality jobs and contribute to meeting current and future generations’ energy needs while also addressing the challenge of climate change, contributing to Welsh and UK Governments’ targets for decarbonising Wales’ electricity generating systems by 2030 and achieving a 95% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and beyond. 1.2.5 The following section will review and summarise the legislative and policy context for the proposed development. 1.2.6 Section 3 will consider the key planning issues arising from the legislative and policy review and how the proposed development complies with the development plan and the key material considerations. 1.2.7 Section 4 provides an overall summary and conclusions. JPW1115 | Planning Statement | A | February 2020 rpsgroup.com Page 1 PLANNING STATEMENT 2 POLICY CONTEXT 2.1 National Legislation, Policy and Guidance United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: The Paris Agreement (2015) 2.1.1 The Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts