SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
8.8 Detailed Evaluation 63 For an explanation of SEO codes e.g. BFF , PHH , S , W , etc. refer to Table 8.1 on page 84. The following applies to each of the sub-sections 8.8.1 to 8.8.13 below:
The Plan is situated in a hierarchy of documents setting out public policy setting out public policy for, among other things, land use planning, infrastructure, sustainable development, tourism, environmental protection and environmental management, such as the Effects include in-combination effects that are planned for through the wider planning framework including the National Planning Framework, the National Development Plan, the National Adaptation Framework, the Climate Action Plan and the Regional Spatial and Economic Strategy for the Southern Region and associated Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan and the Cork Metropolitan Area Transportation Strategy (for additional detail please refer to Section 2.5 “Relationship with other relevant Plans and Programmes” in this report). These other existing policies, plans etc. have been subject to their own environmental assessment processes, as relevant, and already provide for various measures that have been compiled into the Plan. The Plan aligns with these documents and will be incorporated into the review and preparation of these documents. Lower tier plans and projects must be consistent and comply with the provisions of the Plan and of these other policies, plans etc. and will be subject to their own project level EIA and AA requirements as relevant. An assessment of cumulative effects is provided at Section 8.2 of this report.
63 The Plan’s provisions are evaluated using compatibility criteria in order to determine how they would be likely to affect the status of the existing environment and the SEOs. The SEOs and the Plan provisions are arrayed against each other in order to demonstrate which interactions would cause effects on specific components of the environment. Where the appraisal identifies an interaction with the status of an SEO the relevant SEO code is entered into the relevant column. The interactions identified are reflective of likely significant environmental effects: 1. Interactions that would be likely to improve the status of a particular SEO would be likely to result in a significant positive effect on the protection/management of the environmental component/issues to which the SEO relates. 2. Interactions that would potentially conflict with the status of an SEO and would be likely to be mitigated would be likely to result in a potential significant negative effect however these effects would be likely to be mitigated by measures which have been integrated into the Plan. These effects include secondary, cumulative (see also Section 8.2), synergistic, short, medium and long-term permanent and temporary, positive and negative effects.
CAAS for Cork City Council
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