Strategic Environmental Assessment Environment Report Looe Neighbourhood Development Plan Steering Group have to say that the Examiner had obviously not looked at any This Page is Intentionally Blank e sites, not e Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Looe Neighbourhood Plan Environmental Report to accompany the submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan Looe Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group January 2021 This Page is Intentionally Blank Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Environmental Report to accompany the Looe Neighbourhood Plan 4 submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS NON TECHNICAL SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................. 7 WHAT IS STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (SEA)? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHAT IS THE LOOE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN? ........................................................................................................................... 7 PURPOSE OF THIS ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT ............................................................................................................................. 7 SCOPING ............................................................................................................................................................................. 7 ASSESSMENT OF REASONABLE ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES FOR THE LOOE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ..................................................... 8 WHAT ARE THE APPRAISAL FINDINGS AT THIS STAGE? .................................................................................................................. 9 ASSESSMENT OF THE SUBMISSION VERSION OF THE LOOE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ........................................................................... 9 NEXT STEPS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................................... 13 BACKGROUND .................................................................................................................................................................... 13 RELATIONSHIP OF THE LOOE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN WITH THE CORNWALL LOCAL PLAN ............................................................... 13 WHAT IS STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT? ............................................................................................................... 14 PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE OF THIS SEA ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT ............................................................................................. 15 2. LOCAL PLAN CONTEXT AND VISION FOR THE LOOE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ............................. 17 LOCAL PLAN CONTEXT FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ........................................................................................................... 17 VISION, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN ................................................................................................ 17 3. WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF THE SEA? ......................................................................................................... 18 SEA SCOPING REPORT ......................................................................................................................................................... 18 KEY SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES .................................................................................................................................................. 20 Climate Change (Including Drainage and Flood Risk) ..................................................................................................... 20 Biodiversity And Geodiversity ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Landscape ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Historic Environment ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Land, Soil and WAter Resources ..................................................................................................................................... 21 PopulAtion And Community ........................................................................................................................................... 21 Health And Wellbeing ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Transportation ............................................................................................................................................................... 22 SEA FRAMEWORK .............................................................................................................................................................. 22 4. WHAT HAS PLAN MAKING / SEA INVOLVED UP TO THIS POINT? .................................................... 26 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................................. 26 OVERVIEW OF PLAN MAKING / SEA WORK UNDERTAKEN SINCE 2014 ....................................................................................... 26 ASSESSMENT OF REASONABLE ALTERNATIVES .......................................................................................................................... 28 One. Assessment of options: The broAd locAtion of development. ............................................................................... 28 Two. Assessment of options: Sites to be included within the Development Boundary ................................................ 34 CURRENT APPROACH IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN POLICIES ........................... 48 NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN POLICIES ......................................................................................................................................... 48 5. WHAT ARE THE APPRAISAL FINDINGS AT THIS CURRENT STAGE? ................................................. 51 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................................. 51 APPROACH TO THE APPRAISAL .............................................................................................................................................. 51 CLIMATE CHANGE: .............................................................................................................................................................. 51 BIODIVERSITY: .................................................................................................................................................................... 53 LANDSCAPE: ...................................................................................................................................................................... 55 HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT: .................................................................................................................................................... 56 LAND, SOIL AND WATER RESOURCES: .................................................................................................................................... 57 POPULATION AND COMMUNITY: ........................................................................................................................................... 58 HEALTH AND WELLBEING: .................................................................................................................................................... 60 TRANSPORTATION: .............................................................................................................................................................. 61 CONCLUSIONS AT THIS CURRENT STAGE .................................................................................................................................. 62 6. WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? .................................................................................................................... 63 APPENDIX A: CONTEXT REVIEW AND BASELINE ........................................................................................ 64 Climate Change (including drainage and flood risk) ....................................................................................................... 64 Biodiversity And Geodiversity ........................................................................................................................................ 74 LandscApe ...................................................................................................................................................................... 86 Historic Environment ..................................................................................................................................................... 98 Land, Soil and WAter Resources ..................................................................................................................................