SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
o sustainable mobility/a shift from motorised transport modes to more sustainable and non-motorised transport modes; and o renewable energy development. Contributions towards travel related greenhouse gas and other emissions to air (in combination with plans and programmes from all sectors, including transport and land use planning) as a result of facilitating development which must be accompanied by road capacity; Facilitation of new development that is accompanied by appropriate levels of water services thereby contributing towards environmental protection; Need for and use of water and waste water treatment capacity arising from new developments and associated potential adverse effects; Potential cumulative effects upon surface and ground water status as a result of, for example, housing and employment – loadings and abstractions; Potential cumulative effects (habitat damage, enhancing ecological connectivity, contributing towards sustainable mobility) arising from linear developments, such as those relating to green and blue infrastructure, including beyond the City border; Potential cumulative effects on flood risk by, for example, development of greenfield lands or obstruction of flood paths; and In combination with plans and programmes from all sectors potential adverse effects on all environmental components arising from all development in greenfield and brownfield areas (e.g. infrastructural, residential, economic, agricultural etc.). The type of these effects is consistent with those described on Table 8.2. These plans and programmes are required to comply with environmental legislation and undergo SEA and AA as relevant comply with environmental legislation while projects are subject to EIA and AA, as relevant. These effects would have the potential, if unmitigated, if they occurred, to result in changes in the environment within and beyond Cork City. A variety of the issues covered by the Plan provisions are regional issues which are considered: at Regional Assembly level, in the Southern RSES and by planning authorities across the Region. The solutions to these issues are often regional solutions which are subject their own consenting procedures. Works arising outside of the Plan as a result of providing for new development within the City including those arising as a result of the cumulative provision of development in the wider Southern region would potentially conflict with a number of environmental components, across the wider Southern region and beyond, including: ecology, soil function, the status of water bodies and the landscape. Some of these conflicts would be mitigated by measures which will be integrated into the Plan while some will be mitigated by measures arising out of separate consent procedures. 8.3 Overall Evaluation Cork City Council have integrated various recommendations arising from the SEA, AA and SFRA processes into the Draft Plan (see Section 9). Table 8.2 provides a detailed overall evaluation of the environmental effects arising from the Plan. The effects encompass all in-combination/cumulative effects arising from implementation of the Plan. The potentially significant adverse environmental effects (if unmitigated) arising from implementation of the Plan are detailed as are residual effects, taking into account mitigation through both provisions integrated into the Plan – see Section 9. Taking into account, inter alia , the detailed mitigation which has been integrated into the Plan (including that which is identified at Section 9), it has been determined that significant residual adverse environmental effects will not occur. Environmental impacts which occur will be determined by the nature and extent of multiple or individual projects and site-specific environmental factors. Strategic Environmental Objective (SEO) codes are taken from Table 8.1.
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