Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Gloucestershire County Council November 2019 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Notice This document and its contents have been prepared and are intended solely for Gloucestershire County Council’s information and use in relation to the Integrated Sustainability Appraisal of the Local Transport Plan Review. Atkins Limited assumes no responsibility to any other party in respect of or arising out of or in connection with this document and/or its contents. Document history Job number: 5189457 Document ref: Revision Purpose description Originated Checked Reviewed Authorised Date V1.0 Draft for Comment ISA Team PMcE CW CW 22/10/19 V2.0 Final Issue ISA Team PMcE CW CW 07/11/19 Client signoff Client Gloucestershire County Council Project Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review ISA Document title Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Job no. 5189457 Copy no. Document reference Atkins November 2019 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Table of contents Chapter Pages Non-technical Summary 7 The purpose of the ISA 7 Compatibility between LTP Objectives and ISA Objectives 8 Assessment of Strategic Alternatives 8 Assessment of the Revised Draft LTP 10 Mitigation 24 Cumulative, Synergistic and Indirect Effects 25 Monitoring 26 Next steps 27 Conclusions 27 1. Introduction 29 1.1. Purpose of this Report 29 1.2. The need for a Revised Local Transport Plan 29 1.3. Revised Draft LTP Overview 29 2. Approach to Integrated Sustainability Appraisal 32 2.1. Introduction 32 2.2. Sustainability Appraisal / Strategic Environmental Assessment 32 2.3. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) 32 2.4. Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) 33 2.5. Community Safety Assessment (CSA) 33 2.6. Habitat Regulation Assessment (HRA) 33 2.7. Reporting and consultation as part of the ISA process 34 3. Scope of the Integrated Sustainability Appraisal 37 3.1. Introduction 37 3.2. Spatial Scope 37 3.3. Temporal Scope 38 3.4. Technical Scope 38 4. ISA Methodology 40 4.1. Introduction 40 4.2. Assessment Methodology 40 4.3. SA / SEA 43 4.4. HIA 46 4.5. EqIA 47 4.6. CSA 47 5. Review of Legislation and other Plans and Programmes 48 5.1. Introduction 48 5.2. Methodology 48 5.3. Recent relevant PPPs 51 6. Baseline Information and Key Sustainability Issues 53 6.1. Introduction 53 6.2. Methodology 53 6.3. Data Analysis 53 6.4. Data Limitations 54 6.5. Key sustainability baseline, issues and implications/ opportunities 55 6.6. EqIA and HIA Issues 81 Atkins November 2019 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report 7. ISA Framework 87 7.1. Introduction 87 7.2. ISA Objectives and assessment aid questions 87 8. Compatibility between LTP Objectives and ISA Objectives 100 8.1. Introduction 100 8.2. LTP Review Objective 1: Support Sustainable Economic Growth 101 8.3. LTP Review Objective 2: Enable Community Connectivity 103 8.4. LTP Review Objective 3: Conserve the Environment 103 8.5. LTP Review Objective 4: Improve Community Health and Well-being 104 8.6. Conclusions 105 9. Assessment of Alternatives 107 9.1. Introduction 107 9.2. Defining the alternatives 107 9.3. Assessing the Alternatives 107 9.4. Alternatives assessment summary 108 10. Assessment of Revised Draft LTP Policy Proposals 110 10.1. Introduction 110 10.2. Assessment of Cross Cutting policies 113 10.3. Assessment of Themed Policies 120 11. Assessment of Revised Draft LTP Proposed Schemes 127 11.1. Introduction 127 11.2. Assessment of Schemes 136 11.3. Assessment of Scheme Delivery Proposals 140 11.4. Conclusions 141 12. Mitigation 142 12.1. Introduction 142 12.2. Mitigation approaches applied in the ISA 142 13. Cumulative, Synergistic and Indirect Effects 144 13.1. Introduction 144 13.2. Likely cumulative effects 144 14. Monitoring 150 14.1. Introduction 150 14.2. Current LTP monitoring arrangements 150 14.3. Proposed monitoring programme 150 15. Conclusions 156 Tables Table 2-1 Schedule of SEA Requirements 35 Table 4-1 Integration of the Assessment Process 41 Table 4-2 Criteria for Assessing Significance of Effects 44 Table 7-1 ISA Framework and of objectives and assessment aid questions 88 Table 7-2 EqIA Sub-Objectives 94 Table 7-3 HIA Sub-Objectives 97 Table 8-1 Initial compatibility assessment results 102 Table 8-2 Final compatibility assessment results 106 Table 9-1 Summary of findings of Assessment of Alternatives 108 Table 10-1 Draft Revised Draft LTP Policies (as at September 2019) 110 Table 10-2 Assessment of Draft Revised Draft LTP Cross Cutting Policies (as at September 2019) 113 Table 10-3 Recommendations arising out of Assessment of Draft Revised Draft LTP Cross Cutting Policies (as at September 2019) and how the considerations have been taken on board by GCC 116 Table 10-4 Assessment of Draft Revised Draft LTP Theme Policies (as at September 2019) 121 Atkins November 2019 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Table 10-5 Recommendations arising out of Assessment of Draft Revised Draft LTP Theme Policies (as at September 2019) and how the considerations have been taken on board by GCC 123 Table 10-6 Assessment of Revised Draft LTP Theme Policies (as at October 2019) 125 Table 11-1 Schemes per type and per CPS area 128 Table 11-2 Assessment of Revised Draft LTP proposed schemes per type 137 Table 11-3 Overview of Recommended Mitigation for Proposed Schemes 138 Table 12-1 Mitigation approaches applied 142 Table 13-1 Anticipated cumulative, synergistic and indirect effects for Revised Draft LTP 144 Table 13-2 Potential Cumulative effects – Plans and Policies 147 Table 14-1 Proposed Monitoring Programme 151 Figures Figure 3-1 Geographical scope of the Plan............................................................................................... 37 APPENDICES (separate volume) Atkins November 2019 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Abbreviations AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty AQMA Air Quality Management Area CSA Community Safety Assessment DCLG Department for Communities and Local Government DfT Department for Transport EqIA Equality Impact Assessment ER Environmental Report EV Electric Vehicle GCC Gloucestershire County Council GHG Greenhouse Gas GVA Gross Value Added HGV Heavy Goods Vehicle HIA Health Impact Assessment HRA Habitats Regulation Assessment ISA Integrated Sustainability Appraisal LTP Local Transport Plan NHS National Health Service NPPF National Planning Policy Framework ODPM Office of the Deputy Prime Minister PCG Protected Characteristic Group PPPs Plans, Policies and Programmes PRoW Public Right of Way pSPA Potential Special Protection Area RIGS Regional Importance Geological Sites SAC Special Area of Conservation cSAC Candidate Special Area of Conservation SEA Strategic Environmental Assessment SPA Special Protection Area SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest SuDS Sustainable Drainage Systems TAG Transport Analysis Guidance WHS World Heritage Site Atkins November 2019 Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan Review Integrated Sustainability Appraisal Report Non-technical Summary The purpose of the ISA This is the Non-Technical Summary of the Integrated Sustainability Appraisal (ISA) Report of the Gloucestershire’s Local Transport Plan (LTP) Review. The purpose of this Non-technical Summary is to set out the ISA process and the outcomes derived from this and is intended to inform people who have a general interest in the Local Transport Plan Review, but who are not concerned with its detailed technical assessment. Readers are advised to read the full contents of the ISA Report for more detailed information if required. Whilst it is important that the LTP Review delivers the vision for transport in Gloucestershire, it is also important that this is done is a way which protects the environment, protects the human health and allows as many different people as possible the same opportunities for accessing the facilities and services they require whilst promoting sustainable economic growth. Therefore, the Revised Draft LTP has been subjected to a series of assessments that cover the topics of Sustainability and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SA/SEA), Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) and Community Safety Assessment (CSA). It is also important to note that as there is a potential that the Revised Draft LTP could lead to a direct or indirect effect on sites which have been designated at the European level for nature conservation purposes (such as Special Areas of Conservation), a Habitats Regulation Assessment (HRA) was also carried out. Taken together these various assessments are described as an ‘Integrated Sustainability Appraisal’ (ISA). An ISA Framework has been defined, consisting of a series of objectives, against which the sustainability performance of the Revised Draft LTP has been assessed. These ISA Objectives are: 1. Improve air quality 2. Reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from transport 3. Protect and enhance protected habitats, sites, species, valuable ecological networks and promote ecosystem resilience and functionality 4. Protect, enhance and promote geodiversity 5. Protect and enhance the character and quality of landscapes and townscapes and visual amenity. 6. Conserve and enhance heritage assets and the wider historic environment including buildings, structures, landscapes, townscapes and archaeological