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Flood Risk Management Strategy Forth Estuary Local Plan
Flood Risk Management Strategy Forth Estuary Local Plan District This section provides supplementary information on the characteristics and impacts of river, coastal and surface water flooding. Future impacts due to climate change, the potential for natural flood management and links to river basin management are also described within these chapters. Detailed information about the objectives and actions to manage flooding are provided in Section 2. Section 3: Supporting information 3.1 Introduction ............................................................................................ 379 3.2 River flooding ......................................................................................... 380 East Lothian and Berwickshire catchment group .............................. 381 Almond and Edinburgh catchment group.......................................... 390 Firth of Forth catchment group ......................................................... 400 3.3 Coastal flooding ...................................................................................... 408 3.4 Surface water flooding ............................................................................ 418 Forth Estuary Local Plan District Section 3 378 3.1 Introduction In the Forth Estuary Local Plan District, river flooding is reported across two distinct river catchments. Coastal flooding and surface water flooding are reported across the whole Local Plan District. A summary of the number of properties and Annual Average Damages from river, coastal and surface water -
Updated Landscape Assessment (Including Visualisations Illustration Effect of Removing Turbine 3)
Penmanshiel Wind Farm RES Updated Landscape Assessment (including visualisations illustration effect of removing Turbine 3) Further Environmental Information Penmanshiel Wind Farm RES contrast, the Lammermuirs Hills candidate SLA would reduce the extent of the local landscape designation, receding west and off Dunglass Common which is currently included in the Lammermuir 7 Landscape and Visual Hills AGLV. 7.7 The Draft SPG also contained an audit of the existing AGLVs documenting the key characteristics and Introduction and Overview special qualities of these landscapes against which the proposed Penmanshiel Wind Farm was assessed in the ES 2011. There has been no change to this information and the existing assessment of the likely 7.1 This Chapter provides further Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) and Cumulative effects of the proposed Penmanshiel Wind Farm on the Lammermuir Hills and the Berwickshire Coast Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (CLVIA) in connection with the proposed Penmanshiel Wind AGLVs as set out in the ES 2011 remains unchanged. Farm, addressing three main areas of assessment as follows. 7.8 A Statements of Importance have been provided for the candidate SLAs and additional landscape • Revised CLVIA to take account of the changes to the baseline of other existing, consented and assessment has been included to account for this. application wind farms since the submission of the Penmanshiel Wind Farm application; • presentation of additional LVIA in connection with the proposed Penmanshiel Wind Farm; and Revised Cumulative Baseline of Other Wind Farm Developments (20km) • assessment of the proposed Penmanshiel Wind Farm, to allow for the potential deletion of Turbine 3 (referred to as the 14 turbine scheme). -
D 7.1 Analysis of Practical Remediation Strategies For
RAIN – Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in Response to Extreme Weather Project Reference: 608166 FP7-SEC-2013-1 Impact of extreme weather on critical infrastructure Project Duration: 1 May 2014 – 30 April 2017 Security Sensitivity Committee Deliverable Evaluation Deliverable Reference D 7.1 Deliverable Name Analysis of practical remeDiation strategies for Discrete infrastructure systems Contributing Partners GDGEO Date of Submission August 2015 The evaluation is: • The content is not related to general project management • The content is not related to general outcomes as dissemination and communication • The content is not relateD to critical infrastructure vulnerability or sensitivity Diagram path 1-2-3. Therefor the evaluation is Public. Decision of Evaluation Public ConfiDential RestricteD Evaluator Name P.L. Prak, MSSM Evaluator Signature SigneD by the chairman Date of Evaluation 2015-09-01 This project has receiveD funDing from the European Union’s Seventh FrameworK Programme for research, technological Development anD Demonstration unDer grant agreement no 608166 RAIN – Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Networks in Response to Extreme Weather Project Reference: 608166 FP7-SEC-2013-1 Impact of extreme weather on critical infrastructure Project Duration: 1 May 2014–30 April 2017 Analysis of Practical Remediation Strategies for discrete Infrastructure systems Authors Kenneth Gavin and Matilda Djidara (GDGEO), [email protected] and [email protected] Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions, Dublin, Ireland Contributions from: Carlos Barcena, -
33/15 Flood Risk Management Strategy
Members’ Library Service Request Form Date of Document 01/02/15 Originator Road Services Manager Originator’s Ref (if any) Document Title Appendix 2 (Part 2) to Flood Risk Management Strategy Please indicate if access to the document is to be “unrestricted” or “restricted”, with regard to the terms of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985. Unrestricted Restricted If the document is “restricted”, please state on what grounds (click on grey area for drop- down menu): For Publication Please indicate which committee this document should be recorded into (click on grey area for drop-down menu): Cabinet Additional information: Please read in conjuction with Members' Library Reports ref 31/15 and 32/15 - dated March 2015. Part 2 of appendix two is attached. Part 1 is contained Members' Library Bulletin number 32/15. Authorised By Ray Montgomery Designation Head of Infrastructure Date 25/02/15 For Office Use Only: Library Reference 33/15 Date Received 03/05/15 Bulletin Mar 2015 Falkirk, Grangemouth, Lauriston, Denny, Redding, Dunipace, Cumbernauld, Carron, Stehousemuir Potentially Vulnerable Area 10/11 Objective(s): Bonnybridge, Denny, Stenhousemuir and Grangemouth objective target area Reduce risk to people in Bonnybridge, Denny, Carron and Grangemouth from river and coastal flooding. Objective ID: 10041 Indicators: 450 people at risk (from a medium likelihood flood) ©Crown copyright. All rights reserved. SEPA lic.no. 100016991 (2013) Potential action Action ID Description Maintenance of 100410100 Existing defences along the Grange Burn provide protection existing flood to residential and/or non-residential properties. protection schemes Ongoing maintenance of existing defences will ensure they continue to offer protection from flooding. -
Local Landscape Designations August 2012
Scottish Borders Council Supplementary Planning Guidance Local Landscape Designations August 2012 Front Cover, Talla (Tweedsmuir Uplands proposed Special Landscape Area) © www.keithrobeson.com Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Background Local Landscape Designations 3 Policy Context 3 Actions from Policy Context 5 3. Study Approach Borders Landscape Character Assessment 6 Quantitative evaluation 7 Field survey 9 Qualitative evaluation 9 Stage 1: Aggregation of LCUs 10 Stage 2: Practical Criteria 16 Proposed Special Landscape Areas 17 4. Statements of Importance 19 5. Development Pressures and Landscape Type 36 6. Analysis of difference between AGLV and proposed SLA 37 7. Supplementary Planning Policies 43 List of Figures Figure 1 - Refined Area of Search 15 Figure 2 – Proposed Special Landscape Areas 18 Annexes Annex 1: Land Use Consultants, Local Landscape Designation Review Revised Report (2012) Annex 2: Policy Context 1. Introduction 1.1 This Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) has been produced to incorporate the review and update of Local Landscape Designations in the Scottish Borders into the Council’s planning policy framework. The current designations were made in the 1960s and they have little or no written justification. In the Local Plan Inquiry (18 January 2007) the Reporter stated that due to the length of time since designation and the increase in pressure from development, the Council should undertake a review of Local Landscape Designation areas where they would be desirable and appropriate. This requirement was incorporated into the adopted Local Plan (2008). 1.2 The lack of justification of the existing Local Landscape Designations in the Borders meant it was decided to undertake a complete re‐evaluation. -
Around Chirnside and Paxton
Paths Around Chirnside and Paxton around Chirnside and Paxton £2.00 Paths Around Chirnside and Paxton Contents Route 1 5km/3miles The Loanings, Chirnside 8 Route 2 5.5km/3½miles Ninewells & Whiteadder Water, Chirnside 10 Route 3 7km/4½miles Chirnside to Auchencrow 12 Route 4 5km/3miles Paxton House to Union Chain Bridge 14 Route 5 10km/6miles Paxton House to Whiteadder Bridge 16 Route 6 5.5km/3½miles Union Chain Bridge Circular 18 Route 7 9km/5½ miles Paxton House to Berwick-Upon-Tweed 20 Route 8 5.5km/3½miles Hutton Circular 24 Route 9 4.5km/2½miles Allanton Circular 26 Route 10 5km/3miles Reston Circular 28 Paxton House Cover image: River Tweed meets the Whiteadder west of Berwick 2 Paths Around Chirnside and Paxton N A 1 Reston 10 Burnmouth Auchencrow Ayton B 6438 B 6437 3 B 6355 SCOTLAND 1 A 1 Chirnsidebridge Chirnside 3 2 Foulden 2 ENGLAND A 6105 Whiteadder A 6105 Allanton Hutton 8 Water 9 Berwick - upon- Blackadder Paxton 5 7 Tweed Water B 6460 B 6461 Paths around Chirnside 5 and Paxton Paxton House 7 4 7 6 East Ord Union Bridge Berwickshire Coastal Path A 1 1 mile B 6461 River Tweed Horncliffe 2 kilometre 3 3 Paths Around Chirnside and Paxton Introduction This booklet includes routes starting from Chirnside and Paxton House in Central Berwickshire, Scottish Borders along with circular routes around Hutton, Allanton and Reston. The walks provide a variety of distances, terrains and choice of locations in mid-Berwickshire, close to the Anglo-Scots border. -
6.0 Assessment of Landscape Capacity and Cumulative
Scottish Borders Council Update of Wind Energy Landscape Capacity and Cumulative Impact Study ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6.0 ASSESSMENT OF LANDSCAPE CAPACITY AND CUMULATIVE An assessment is then made of the current level of cumulative change based on the distribution of operational and consented onshore wind energy developments, as listed in CHANGE Table 5.1 and illustrated in Figures 5.1 and 5.2. The landscape character types are shown 6.1 Assessment Purpose and Process indicatively in Figure 6.2 as a map of areas of current wind turbine landscape typologies (based on types detailed in Table 2.2 of this report). The purpose of the following assessment is to determine the capacity of the Scottish Borders landscape to accommodate wind turbine development and to determine what The proposed acceptable landscape capacity for development is detailed in Table 6.1 and levels of cumulative development could be considered acceptable across Scottish Borders. illustrated indicatively in Figure 6.3 as a map of areas of proposed wind turbine landscape The assessment also takes into account the level of cumulative development that already typologies (incorporating the current typologies illustrated in Figure 6.2). exists within and around Scottish Borders and is based on the premise that current Guidance on wind turbine sizes, numbers and distribution is given in the right hand side of renewable energy policies have and will lead to an inevitable level of landscape change Table 6.1(i)-(vi) for managing development to the appropriate level within each landscape within Scottish Borders. SPP highlights that cumulative impacts may present a limit to the type. -
7 Landscape and Visual
Penmanshiel Wind Farm RES 7 Landscape and Visual Introduction and Overview Strategic Landscape Planning Guidance 7.1 The Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) for wind farms forms one of the key components of the EIA process required by the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) 7.6 The site area is located within ‘Zone 1’ of Scottish Natural Heritage’s Strategic Guidance for Onshore (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘EIA Regulations’). The results of the Wind Farms as it contains no national or local landscape designations and is not within the search area assessment allow consideration of the proposed development against the relevant local planning for wild land. The area is close to the Drone Hill Wind Farm which is currently under construction policies which seek to protect the landscape resource and visual amenity. This section has been and within close proximity of the Berwickshire Coastline AGLV. The assessment will be required to produced by Chartered Landscape Architects at AMEC Environment and Infrastructure Limited. examine potential landscape and visual effects in respect of this receptor. Zone 1 is defined as follows: 7.2 The objective of this assessment has been to determine the landscape and visual effects of the proposed development on the existing landscape resource and visual amenity. The following 7.7 ‘Lowest natural heritage sensitivity identifies areas at the broad scale with least sensitivity to wind landscape and visual receptors have been assessed: farms with the greatest opportunity for development, within which overall a large number of developments could be acceptable in natural heritage terms, so long as they are undertaken • landscape character, key characteristics, and elements; sensitively and with due regard to cumulative impact.’ • designated landscapes; and • views and visual amenity experienced by residents, tourists, visitors, recreational and road users.