Land North of the A1071, Ipswich Environmental Statement Volume 1: Main Statement Prepared on behalf of Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd | April 2021 Report Control Project: Land North of the A1071, Ipswich Client: Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd. Reference: 17.6050 File Origin: - Primary Author Bethan Haigh Checked By: Alyson Jones Issue Date Status Checked By 1 14.10.2020 Draft AJ 2 20.10.2020 Draft AJ 3 22.04.2021 Draft BH 4 30.04.2021 Final AJ TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 17 The Need and Purpose of the Environmental Statement 17 Screening 18 Scoping Opinion and Consultation 19 Matters scoped out of the Environmental Statement 20 Relevant Planning Policy 24 Consultation and Engagement 25 Structure of the Environmental Statement 27 2. Methodology 30 Content of the Environmental Statement 30 Baseline Conditions (incorporating a Future Baseline) 36 Predicting Effects 37 Impact and Effects 37 Spatial Scope 37 Temporal Scope 38 Methodology 38 Criteria to Assess Environmental Effects 39 Magnitude 39 Sensitivity 40 Significance 41 Mitigation 42 Residual Effects 42 Monitoring 43 Cumulative Effects Assessment 43 Limitations and Assumptions 48 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich 3. Site Description and Proposed Development 49 The Application Site 49 The Surrounding Area 50 BMSDC Emerging Joint Local Plan - Site Allocation LA013 50 The Proposed Development 51 Written Parameters 52 EIA and the Planning Application 53 Land Use Components 53 Illustrative Development Framework Plan Overview 54 Character Areas 54 Building Heights 55 Dwelling mix and Density 55 Green Infrastructure and Landscaping 56 Key Movement Corridors 56 Lighting 58 Waste 58 Flood Risk, drainage and water resources 58 Utilities and Services 59 4. Alternatives and Design Evolution 61 Introduction 61 Location of School Site 63 Summary 67 Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 2 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich 5. Construction Programme and Methods 69 Introduction 69 Indicative Construction Programme 69 Construction Trip Generation 69 Sustainable Modes of Construction and Nature and Quantity of Materials 70 Materials 71 Draft Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) 71 6. Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 72 Introduction 72 Legislation, Policy and Guidance 72 Relevant Elements of the Proposed Development 78 Assessment Methodology and Significance Criteria 78 Establishing Baseline Conditions 78 Assessment of Effects 82 Limitations and Assumptions 83 Baseline Conditions 84 The Surrounding Area 84 Archaeological Heritage Receptors 85 Built Heritage 86 Future Baseline 87 Predicted Effect of Development: Post-Construction Phase 89 Mitigation 90 Summary 93 Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 3 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich 7. Landscape and Visual Effects 97 Introduction 97 Policy and Guidance 97 Relevant Elements of the Proposed Development 98 Assessment Methodology and Significance Criteria 99 Landscape/Townscape Effects 100 Visual Effects 102 Significance of Effect 103 Mitigation and Residual Effects 104 Assessment of Effects 105 Cumulative Effects 105 Zone of Theoretical Visibility 105 Consultation Undertaken to Date 106 Baseline Conditions 110 Assessment of Effects, Mitigation and Residual Effects 139 Mitigation 153 Residual Effects 155 Assessment of Cumulative Effects 156 Assumptions and Limitations 161 Summary 161 Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 4 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich 8. Ecology and Biodiversity 165 Introduction 165 Legislation, policy and guidance 165 Relevant elements of the Proposed Development 169 Assessment methodology and significance criteria 169 Scope of the assessment and the zone of influence 170 Construction and Operation Phase 170 Baseline Assessment Methodology 171 Impact Assessment 185 Baseline conditions 189 Future Baseline 203 Assessment of effects, mitigation and residual effects 203 Mitigation 205 Residual effects 213 Securement of mitigation and compensation for the scheme 215 Limitations and assumptions 222 Summary 223 References 225 9. Transport, accessibility and movement 228 Statement of Competence 228 Legislation, Policy and Guidance 228 Climate Change 234 Proposed Development 234 Scoping Opinion 235 Relevant Elements of the Proposed Development 235 Assessment Methodology 235 Assessment of Effects, Mitigation and Residual Effects 241 Cumulative Impacts 246 Monitoring 250 Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 5 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich 10. Cumulative Effects (incorporating additive and synergist effects) 252 Introduction 252 Cumulative Effects Assessment (CEA) 252 Identifying Past, Present or Reasonably Foreseeable Future Projects 253 Assessment of Effects 259 Heritage and Archaeology 259 Landscape and Visual Amenity 260 Ecology and Biodiversity 260 Transport, Accessibility and Movement 260 Summary 260 11. Summary of Mitigation Measures, Residual Effects and Monitoring 262 Introduction 262 Heritage and Archaeology 262 Landscape and Visual Impact 264 Ecology and Biodiversity 277 Transport, Accessibility and Movement 283 Cumulative Effects 285 Summary 285 Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 6 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich LIST OF TABLES Note: Not all of the Chapters in the Environmental Statement include tables. Only where tables are included in the Chapter are listed below. Chapter 1 Table 1.1 - Summary of Consultation Table 1.2 - Structure and Scope of Environmental Statement Chapter 2 Table 2.1 - Summary of Regulations 18(3), 18(4) and 18(5) of the 2017 EIA Regulations Table 2.2 - Summary of the Schedule 4 Requirements of the 2017 EIA Regulations Table 2.3 – Summary of the Topic Chapter Structure of the ES Table 2.4 - Magnitude of Change Table 2.5 - Sensitivity of Receptor Table 2.6 - Methodology for Assessing Significance Matrix Table 2.7 - Significance Criteria – The 7 Point Scale Table 2.8 - Sites to be assessed for Cumulative Effects Chapter 3 Table 3.1 - Land Use Components Chapter 4 Table 4.1 – Table summarising school Site location options Table 4.2 – Table summarising design evolution as a result of consultation and engagement Chapter 5 Table 5.1 - Likely Construction Phase Trip Generation Chapter 6 Table 6.1 - Significance of Cultural Heritage Assets Table 6.2 - Criteria for assessing magnitude of effect Table 6.3 - Criteria for assessing magnitude of effect Table 6.4 - Significance/Magnitude of effect matrix Table 6.5 - Potentially affected sensitive receptors Table 6.6 - Potentially affected sensitive receptors Table 6.7 - Construction Phase impacts on the below ground archaeological potential of the Site Table 6.8 - Construction Phase Effects on Built Heritage Receptors Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 7 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich Table 6.9 - Operational Phase Effects on Built Heritage Receptors Chapter 7 (Tables 7.3 and 7.4 contained within Appendix 7.2) Table 7.1 – Comparison between ES and Landscape Chapter wording Table 7.2 – Summary of Consultation Undertaken Table 7.3 – Landscape Effects Summary – Tables of Significance Table 7.4 – Visual Effects Summary – Tables of Significance Chapter 8 Table 8.1 - Wintering bird survey conditions Table 8.2 - Breeding Bird Survey Conditions Table 8.3 - Reptile survey conditions Table 8.4 - Great crested newt survey conditions Table 8.5 - Categorising bats by distribution and rarity Table 8.6 - Transect survey conditions Table 8.7 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 1 Table 8.8 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 2 Table 8.9 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 3 Table 8.10 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 4 Table 8.11 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 5 Table 8.12 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 6 Table 8.13 - Bat remote monitoring conditions (best 5 nights) – period 7 Table 8.14 - Date of nest tube checks and their associated monthly score according to English Nature guidance Table 8.15 - Dates and weather conditions during the invertebrate surveys Table 8.16 - Assessment of conservation value of ecological features Table 8.17 - Relationship between the geographic scale of importance of ecological feature as per best practice guidance and assigned importance level used in the assessment Table 8.18 - Species of conservation significance recorded on the Application Site Table 8.19 - Summary of the results of the breeding bird surveys including BoCC red and amber listed species only Table 8.20 - Total adults found of each reptile species during the survey Table 8.21 - Overview of e-DNA survey results Table 8.22 - Important ecological features and their geographic importance Table 8.23 - Recommendations for securing ecological mitigation Document No. IMS-F-18, Revision 1, 01.05.2018 Page 8 of 287 Environmental Statement | Land North of the A1071, Ipswich Chapter 9 Table 9.1 - TEMPRO/NTM Growth Factor Ipswich 013 Table 9.2 - Receptor sensitivity Table 9.3 - Severance indicator threshold Table 9.4 - Fear & intimidation threshold Table 9.5 - Significance of effect Criteria Table 9.6 - Development Traffic Impact (18hr) Table 9.7 - Delay (seconds) at each junction Table 9.8 - Corridor Journey Time Savings (hours:minutes:seconds) Table 9.9 - Summary of Adverse