CLIENT:
Cork City Council
PROJECT NAME: REPORT TITLE:
Cork City Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy
SEA Environmental Report
8.2 Mitigation through integration of environmental considerations into the Strategy The Strategy-development process was carried out in parallel with the SEA process. Regular communication and interaction took place between the environmental assessment team and the Strategy development team. Environmental considerations that came to light during the SEA process, including consultation processes, were regularly communicated to the Strategy-development team during the Strategy-development process. As necessary, environmental mitigation measures to ameliorate the potential negative environmental effects of implementing the Strategy were developed and then integrated into the Strategy. This process ensured optimal Strategy development and environmental outcomes. Environmental considerations were also integrated into the Strategy so as to facilitate maximising identified positive environmental effects of the Strategy. Additional text clarifying environmental protection-related obligations and environmental enhancement opportunities has been attached to a variety of defined proposals in the Strategy. This text has been shaped to ensure that environmental considerations are appropriately taken into account during Strategy implementation. This text has been shaped to ensure Strategy implementation generates the minimum level of negative environmental effects and the maximum level of positive environmental effects. A set of additional environmental mitigation measures were also defined and integrated into a separate section of the Strategy. These additional mitigation measures shall be adopted during the implementation of the Strategy. These environmental mitigation measures that have been integrated into the Strategy to prevent, reduce and fully offset any potential significant negative environmental effects, and to maximise potential environmental benefits and co-benefits of the Strategy , are presented in Table 8-1 and Table 8-2. For clarity and succinctness, only the Strategy proposals and the associated proposed mitigation measures have been presented in Table 8-1. The reader is asked to refer to Appendix 3.2 - Detailed Evaluation of Environmental Effects of Strategy Implementation, for an understanding of the potential environmental effects associated with each individual proposal which are being mitigated (in the case of negative environmental effects) or maximised (in the case of positive environmental effects). Due to the inter-relationship between various environmental components, environmental mitigation measures defined for one component can also serve to benefit another environmental component.
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