Strategic Environmental Assessment Report

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SEA and AA Stages and Key Deliverables ................................................................................ 18 Study Area Boundary............................................................................................................... 29 Major Settlement Pattern (Source: OSI) ................................................................................. 31 Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas (Source: NPWS) ....................... 36 Natural Heritage Areas and proposed Natural Heritage Areas (Source: NWPS) .................... 37 Potential Habitat Sensitivities - Areas likely to contain Annex I habitats (Source: EPA-CORINE) ................................................................................................................................................. 38 Archaeological Heritage (Source: EPA).................................................................................... 43 Bedrock Geology (Source: GSI)................................................................................................ 46 Geological Heritage Sites (Source: GSI)................................................................................... 47 Land Use (Source: EPA-CORINE).............................................................................................. 49 Noise Mapping Lden (Day, Evening, Night; a measurement over 24 hours) .......................... 52 Hydrology ................................................................................................................................ 55 WFD Surface Water Status ...................................................................................................... 56 Aquifer Classification............................................................................................................... 57 Wells and Springs .................................................................................................................... 58 Groundwater Vulnerability...................................................................................................... 59 Groundwater Productivity....................................................................................................... 60

Drinking-water Source Protection Areas................................................................................. 61 Figure 4-18(a-e): WFD Register of Protected Areas............................................................................................ 62 Figure 4-19: Constraints and Opportunities Map........................................................................................ 73 Figure 6-1: 'Why? What? Where? When?' Model for framing alternatives - Adapted from Figure 4.3 Developing and Assessing Alternatives in the Strategic Environmental Assessment Process (EPA, 2015). ............................................................................................................................. 79

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