4 Schedule 2a Screening Assessment
4.1
Introduction
The following Section and Table 2 below presents the SEA Screening assessment of the Plan against the criteria provided in Schedule 2a of the Planning and Development (Strategic Environmental Assessment) Regulations 2001-2011 which details the criteria for determining whether a plan or programme is likely to have significant effects on the environment. More detailed commentary on the Plan’s high-level goals, objectives (community and economic) and their action areas are provided in Annex A to this Screening Report. This Screening assessment should be read in conjunction with the Plan and the accompanying Habitats Directive Screening Report.
Table 2 SEA Screening
Criteria for determining whether the proposed Cork City Council LECP 2023-2028 is likely to have significant effects on the environment
1. The characteristics of the Plan having regard, in particular, to:
the degree to which the Plan sets a framework for projects and other activities, either with regard to the location, nature, size and operating conditions or by allocating resources,
The Draft Local Economic and Community Plan (LECP) for Cork City (the Plan) supports the sustainable and integrated economic and community development of Cork City and its hinterlands by guiding the growth and development of the city’s communities, voluntary sector, economic stakeholders and citizens as a whole. The LECPs were first described in Putting People First: Action Plan for Effective Local Government (2012) and then formalised in the Local Government Reform Act 2014. The preparation and implementation of the LECP is supported by collaborations with other public agencies, community and voluntary bodies and sectoral interests in the local setting. A local-led, coordinated and collaborative approach are key characteristics of the LECP. The first LECP for Cork City ‘Pure Cork: An Action Plan for the City’ (2016-2021) has come to the end of its timespan. This is the second LECP to cover the six-year period 2023-2029. The Plan will not set a framework in itself either with regard to location, nature, size or operating conditions or by allocating resources but will compliment and be consistent with the existing policy frameworks. The LECP provides the framework for local implementation of National and Regional Framework Plans that set out the development path for the State and the Region over the next 10 to 20 years. The key spatial plans at National and Regional level are the National Planning Framework Ireland 2040 and the National Development Plan 2021-2030 (NPF/NDP) and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Southern Region (RSES). The LECP identifies objectives from those framework plans to be implemented locally. It identifies local objectives under other National and Regional policies in areas including social inclusion, urban regeneration, health and well-being, education, training and skills development, employment, enterprise and climate change/climate action. It must be consistent with overarching local authority plans, in particular, the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028.
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