CLIENT:
Cork City Council
PROJECT NAME: REPORT TITLE:
Cork City Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy
SEA Environmental Report
The main reasons for 'screening in' the Strategy are listed below:
• Given the nature, scale and magnitude of the Strategy, the Strategy has the potential to result in the generation of significant adverse environmental effects (in the absence of environmental mitigation). • In the absence of appropriate mitigation, the Strategy may generate significant adverse effects on a number of baseline environmental aspects, such as population and human health (e.g., due to construction noise nuisance), the air environment (i.e., due to construction dust), material assets (e.g., due to grid capacity demand) or the historic environment. • The Strategy has the potential to create cumulative environmental effects, in-combination with other plans relevant to the Cork City functional area, including effects that may result in the exceedance of environmental quality standards. • The Cork City functional area contains a variety of sensitive environmental features that may be impacted by the implementation of the Strategy, in particular historic environment/townscape and cultural heritage features (e.g., Historic Character Areas). 3.3.2 SEA Scoping The second stage of the SEA process is carrying out SEA Scoping. The purpose of SEA Scoping is to establish the spatial and temporal scope of the SEA and a decision-making framework that can be used to evaluate impacts. An SEA Scoping Report is produced to document the scoping process. FT produced a final SEA Scoping Report for the draft version of the Strategy which was informed by consultation responses from the environmental authorities. The SEA Scoping Report outlined information on the Strategy, including the need for the Strategy, its temporal and geographical area and overall objectives. It facilitated scoping the environmental components and understanding the environmental issues to be considered under the SEA process. The Scoping Report was also required to facilitate statutory consultation to ensure that the approach proposed for the SEA is appropriate. A copy of this report was made available to the statutory environmental authorities. The SEA Scoping Report, along with SEA scoping submissions and consideration of these submissions by the SEA process, helped communicate and define the scope of the environmental issues which were dealt with by the SEA, the methods which were used to address these issues, and the level of detail required to address these issues, as per the SEA Guidelines. The Environmental Components in the SEA Directive that were 'scoped in' are as follows:
Population & Human Health Biodiversity, Flora & Fauna
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Landscape, Seascape & Visual Amenity
Cultural Heritage - Archaeological & Architectural
Soils
Land Use
Air Quality & Noise
Water
Material Assets
Tourism & Recreation
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