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A1 Birtley to Coal House Scheme Number: TR010031 ES Addendum: Additional Land APFP Regulation 5(2)(a) Planning Act 2008 Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House Infrastructure Planning Planning Act 2008 The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedures) Regulations 2009 A1 Birtley to Coal House Development Consent Order 20[xx] ES Addendum: Additional Land Regulation Reference: APFP Regulation 5(2)(a) Planning Inspectorate Scheme TR010031 Reference Application Document Reference ES Addendum: Additional Land Author: A1 Birtley to Coal House Project Team, Highways England Version Date Status of Version Rev 2 March 2020 Final Planning Inspectorate Scheme Ref: TR010031 Application Document Ref: ES Addendum: Additional Land A1 Birtley to Coal House CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 5 1.1. PURPOSE OF THE ES ADDENDUM 5 1.2. SCOPE OF THE ES ADDENDUM 5 1.3. CONSULTATION 6 1.4. STRUCTURE OF THE ES ADDENDUM 10 2. THE SCHEME 11 2.1. INTRODUCTION 11 2.2. NEED FOR THE SCHEME 11 2.3. SCHEME LOCATION 12 2.4. SCHEME DESCRIPTION 13 2.5. LAND USE REQUIREMENTS 13 2.6. CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND LONG TERM MANAGEMENT 13 3. CULTURAL HERITAGE 15 3.1. INTRODUCTION 15 3.2. COMPETENT EXPERT EVIDENCE 15 3.3. LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK 16 3.4. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY 16 3.5. ASSESSMENT ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 16 3.6. STUDY AREA 17 3.7. BASELINE 17 3.8. POTENTIAL IMPACTS 18 3.9. DESIGN, MITIGATION AND ENHANCEMENT MEASURES 19 3.10. ASSESSMENT OF LIKELY SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS 20 3.11. MONITORING 20 ES Addendum: Additional Land Page 1 of 44 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House 4. LANDSCAPE AND VISUAL 21 4.1. INTRODUCTION 21 4.2. COMPETENT EXPERT EVIDENCE 21 4.3. LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK 22 4.4. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY 22 4.5. ASSESSMENT ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 22 4.6. STUDY AREA 22 4.7. BASELINE 22 4.8. POTENTIAL IMPACTS 23 4.9. DESIGN, MITIGATION AND ENHANCEMENT MEASURES 23 4.10. ASSESSMENT OF LIKELY SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS 24 4.11. MONITORING 25 5. BIODIVERSITY 26 5.1. INTRODUCTION 26 5.2. COMPETENT EXPERT EVIDENCE 26 5.3. LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK 26 5.4. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY 26 5.5. ASSESSMENT ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 27 5.6. STUDY AREA 27 5.7. BASELINE 28 5.8. POTENTIAL IMPACTS 31 5.9. DESIGN, MITIGATION AND ENHANCEMENT MEASURES 32 5.10. ASSESSMENT OF LIKELY SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS 33 5.11. MONITORING 34 6. POPULATION AND HUMAN HEALTH 35 6.1. INTRODUCTION 35 6.2. COMPETENT EXPERT EVIDENCE 35 6.3. LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK 36 6.4. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY 36 ES Addendum: Additional Land Page 2 of 44 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House 6.5. ASSESSMENT ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 36 6.6. STUDY AREA 36 6.7. BASELINE 36 6.8. POTENTIAL IMPACTS 37 6.9. DESIGN, MITIGATION AND ENHANCEMENT MEASURES 37 6.10. ASSESSMENT OF LIKELY SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS 37 6.11. MONITORING 37 7. COMBINED ASSESSMENT 39 7.1. INTRODUCTION 39 7.2. COMPETENT EXPERT EVIDENCE 39 7.3. LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY FRAMEWORK 39 7.4. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY 40 7.5. ASSESSMENT ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS 40 7.6. STUDY AREA 40 7.7. BASELINE 40 7.8. ASSESSMENT OF COMBINED EFFECTS 40 7.9. MITIGATION AND MONITORING 42 8. SUMMARY 43 8.1. INTRODUCTION 43 8.2. SUMMARY 43 TABLES Table 1-1 - Summary of Consultation by Topic 6 Table 3-1 – Cultural Heritage Professional Competence 15 Table 4-1 – Landscape and Visual Professional Competence 21 Table 5-1 - Summary of changes in distance measurements of designated sites from the Scheme Footprint with the inclusion of the additional land 28 Table 5-2 - Summary of Habitats Identified within Additional Land Study Area 29 ES Addendum: Additional Land Page 3 of 44 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House Table 5-3 - Potential Construction Impacts on Ecological features for features within the Area of Additional Land 32 Table 6-1 – Population and Human Health Professional Competence 35 Table 7-1 - Combined and Cumulative Professional Competence 39 APPENDICES ADDITIONAL LAND: DESKTOP ASSESSMENT AND SCOPING REPORT GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY REPORT PRELIMINARY ECOLOGICAL APPRAISAL (PEA) VISUAL EFFECTS SCHEDULE ES ADDENDUM FIGURES ES Addendum: Additional Land Page 4 of 44 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. PURPOSE OF THE ES ADDENDUM 1.1.1. This Environmental Statement Addendum (this "ES Addendum") to the Environmental Statement (ES) supports a request to amend an application for development consent. 1.1.2. An application for development consent, which included an ES, was submitted to the Secretary of State for Transport via the Planning Inspectorate (the "Inspectorate") on 14 August 2019 for the A1 Birtley to Coal House Scheme (“the Scheme”). A full description of the Scheme can be found at Chapter 2: The Scheme of the ES [APP-023]. The ES sets out the findings of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that was carried out for the Scheme. 1.1.3. The application was accepted for Examination in September 2019. 1.1.4. Further design development has continued to be undertaken by Highways England (“the Applicant”) and its advisers since the application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) was made in order to release efficiencies and design benefits. Temporary possession of the additional land will enable the overall construction programme to be reduced by up to six months, resulting in a thirty month construction programme, as compared to the thirty six month construction programme as assessed in the ES. This is particularly important in optimizing a scheme being delivered by the public sector in the public interest. 1.1.5. The proposed amendment to the application that this document relates to is as follows: a. The inclusion of additional land within the application at junction 67 (Coal House) to be used for material stockpiling. This land currently sits outside the proposed Order Limits and it is proposed that powers of temporary occupation are extended to the land during construction of the Scheme. As per the ES, the term Order Limits is referred to as the ‘Scheme Footprint’ throughout this document. 1.1.6. The details of the additional land are described in Section 2, The Scheme of this report and the layout of the additional land is provided in Appendix E, Figure 2.1: Scheme Location Plan. 1.1.7. The purpose of this ES Addendum is to ensure that the environmental impacts of the proposed amendment have been appropriately assessed with any likely significant environmental effects identified, and to satisfy the requirements of the Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (EIA Regulations). 1.1.8. This ES Addendum presents an assessment of the likely significant effects as a result of the additional land. It is not a duplication of the ES and should be read in conjunction with it. 1.2. SCOPE OF THE ES ADDENDUM 1.2.1. In order to understand if there would be significant environmental effects as a result of the inclusion of the additional land proposed, a desktop assessment was carried out. The purpose of the desktop assessment was to consider whether the additional land would alter the conclusion of the EIA already undertaken and reported in the ES. The outcome of the ES Addendum: Additional Land Page 5 of 44 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House desktop assessment then informed a scoping exercise to identify if further EIA, in accordance with the EIA Regulations, would be required. The findings of the scoping exercise are presented in Appendix A, Additional Land: Desktop Assessment and Scoping Report. 1.2.2. Appendix A, Additional Land: Desktop Assessment and Scoping Report of this ES Addendum indicated that the additional land has the potential to change the conclusions of Chapter 6: Cultural Heritage of the ES [APP-027], Chapter 7: Landscape and Visual of the ES [APP-028], Chapter 8: Biodiversity of the ES [APP-029] and Chapter 12: Population and Human Health of the ES [APP-033]. This ES Addendum therefore presents an assessment of the likely significant effects as a result of the additional land upon these environmental topics. APPROACH TO THE ASSESSMENT 1.2.3. The assessment has been carried out in line with the methodologies described in the ES, using the professional judgement of the competent experts detailed within the ES, unless otherwise stated in the relevant technical chapters in this ES Addendum. 1.3. CONSULTATION 1.3.1. Consultation was undertaken during the scoping exercise, as reported in Appendix A, Additional Land: Desktop Assessment and Scoping Report. Where the impacts and residual significant effects were deemed to be comparable to those already assessed in the ES, no consultation was undertaken. A summary of consultation undertaken is presented in Table 1-1 below. Table 1-1 - Summary of Consultation by Topic Technical Area Date / Consultee / Overview of Consultation Method of Name of Contact Consultee Air Quality No consultation required for the additional land assessment. Cultural Heritage Cultural Heritage 24/01/2020 - Clare Key topic Email Richardson – Highlighting the changes to the Gateshead Scheme Footprint to include the Council additional land requirements for the construction period. Key outcome It was noted that intrusive groundworks should remain outside of the conservation area ES Addendum: Additional Land Page 6 of 44 March 2020 A1 Birtley to Coal House Technical Area Date / Consultee / Overview of Consultation Method of Name of Contact Consultee in order to minimise potential impacts to extant ridge and furrow earthworks. Cultural Heritage 23/01/2020 - Rachel Key topic Telephone Grahame – Highlighting the changes to the and email Tyne and Wear Scheme Footprint to include the Archaeology additional land requirements for Officer the construction period.