[ Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028, Section 15(2) Two-Year Progress Report ]
SEA Interim Monitoring Report for the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Two-Year Progress Review
1.3 Limitations The City Development Plan is being implemented alongside other strategies, plans and programmes that are prepared, assessed and adopted for all sectors (e.g. transport, water management/services and energy) from national to local levels of decision making. Furthermore, many City Development Plan provisions have limited spatial specificity (beyond being applicable to the City area) and are high level. These issues mean that the application of a cause–effect model for changes in indicator values is limited. As the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 came into force only two years ago, this report can only identify progress on, and the results of, monitoring the significant environmental effects of implementing the Plan over the past two years and is dependent upon information being available to this effect. In multiple instances data was found to be available from before when the Plan came into force, but not after. This report will be used to inform future reporting on the monitoring of the Plan over the coming years. SEA Interim Monitoring Report for the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 Two-Year Progress Review Section 2 Predicted Environmental Effects The SEA Environmental Report prepared for the Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028 presents information on the likely significant environmental effects of implementing the Plan, including an overall assessment of the following effects identified on Table 1 overleaf: Significant Positive Effects, likely to occur; Potentially Significant Adverse Environmental Effects, if unmitigated; and Likely Residual Adverse Non-Significant Effects. The Plan is implemented in combination with the wider planning framework and the effects on Table 1 encompass in-combination effects that are planned for through the wider planning framework including the National Planning Framework and associated National Development Plan, the Southern Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy, adjacent Development Plans and lower-tier land use plans. The presence of significant interrelationships between environmental components (biodiversity, fauna, flora, population, human health, soil, water, air, climatic factors, material assets, cultural heritage including architectural and archaeological heritage, and landscape) is identified on Table 2. Likely significant effects on environmental components which are identified include those which are interrelated; implementation of the Plan is not predicted to affect the interrelationships between these components.
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