BOROUGH COUNCIL OF KING’S LYNN & WEST NORFOLK LOCAL PLAN REVIEW SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL SCOPING REPORT REVIEW 2020 Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report Review Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 5 King’s Lynn and West Norfolk Sustainability Appraisal Objectives ............................................. 7 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 9 2. Background ................................................................................................................................... 9 3. Relationship to the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive ...................................... 10 4. Sustainability Appraisal Process............................................................................................... 10 5. Stages of the Sustainability Appraisal for the Local Plan Review .............................................. 13 Part B Review of relevant plans, policies, programmes and sustainability objectives .................... 14 6. Context for the review .................................................................................................................... 14 Part C Baseline Assessment ............................................................................................................. 19 7. Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 19 8. Land, soil and water resources ..................................................................................................... 20 8.1. Land Use Characteristics ........................................................................................................ 20 8.2. Agricultural Land Quality ........................................................................................................ 20 8.3. Contaminated Land ................................................................................................................. 23 8.4. Minerals .................................................................................................................................... 25 8.5. Water resources and quality ................................................................................................... 26 9 Biodiversity and Geodiversity ................................................................................................. 33 10. Landscape and Townscape ......................................................................................................... 43 10.1.1 Current and Past Industrial History ................................................................................ 43 10.2 Historic Environment .............................................................................................................. 43 10.3 The Wash ................................................................................................................................. 45 10.4 The Landscape ........................................................................................................................ 46 11. Climate Change and Air Pollution ............................................................................................... 51 11.1 Context .............................................................................................................................. 51 11.2 Emissions .......................................................................................................................... 57 11.3 Flood Risk ............................................................................................................................... 64 11.4 Climate change and the coast................................................................................................ 68 11.5 Air Quality ............................................................................................................................... 71 11.6 Soil ........................................................................................................................................... 74 11.7 Waste ....................................................................................................................................... 75 12 Healthy Communities ............................................................................................................... 78 12.1 Population Density ............................................................................................................... 78 12.2 Health....................................................................................................................................... 79 2 Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report Review 12.3 Crime ....................................................................................................................................... 80 13 Inclusive Communities ......................................................................................................... 81 13.1 Household Composition ......................................................................................................... 81 13.2 Ethnicity .................................................................................................................................. 82 13.3 Migration ................................................................................................................................. 82 13.4 Educational attainment........................................................................................................... 82 13.5 Deprivation .............................................................................................................................. 83 14 Economic Activity ................................................................................................................ 86 Part D Analysis and Identification of Sustainability Objectives ......................................................... 89 15 Summary of Sustainability Issues .......................................................................................... 89 16 Summary of changes since the Local Plan Review SA Scoping Report 2017 ....................102 17 Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................110 Appendix 1 Review of relevant plans, policies, programmes and sustainability objectives ..............................................................................................................................................113 Appendix 2 Site Sustainability Factors…………………………………………………………………………………………..…167 Table of figures Figure 1 Sustainability Appraisal Process (Source: PPG) ................................................................................ 12 Figure 2 Stages of the Sustainability Appraisal ................................................................................................ 13 Figure 3 Value of crop and livestock production by region (DEFRA 2018) ....................................................... 20 Figure 4 Total Income from Farming (TIFF) by region 2010 to 2018 (£ million) (DEFRA,2020)........................ 21 Figure 5 Total Income from Farming (TIFF) Regional Share for England in 2018 (DEFRA,2020) .................... 22 Figure 6 Total Income from Farming (TIFF) for England in 2018 by region (£ million) (DEFRA, 2020)............. 22 Figure 7 Value of outputs for East of England, 2018 (£ million) (DEFRA, 2020) .............................................. 23 Figure 8 List of contaminated sites which have been inspected under the Borough Council’s Contaminated Land Strategy .................................................................................................................................................. 25 Figure 9 Map of the Anglian River Basin District (Source: DEFRA & Environment Agency, 2015) ................... 28 Figure 10 Nitrate concentrations. Source: Environment Agency (2012) ........................................................... 29 Figure 11 Phosphate concentrations. Source: Environment Agency (2012) .................................................... 29 Figure 12 Number of water bodies in the river basin district, Source: (DEFRA and EA, 2015) ......................... 30 Figure 13 Ecological and chemical 2015 classification for surface waters (Anglian Region), Source: (DEFRA and EA, 2015) ................................................................................................................................................. 31 Figure 14 Chemical and quantitative 2015 classification for groundwaters (Anglian Region), (Source: DEFRA and EA, 2015) .................................................................................................................................... 31 Figure 15 West Norfolk District Ecological Network Summary Map ................................................................. 34 Figure 16 Key to West Norfolk Ecological Network Map .................................................................................. 35 Figure 17 Map showing housing allocations from the SADMP in relation to designated sites. Source: BCKLWN, 2016 ..............................................................................................................................................