SEA Environmental Report for the Draft Cork City Development Plan 2022-2028
Section 3 SEA Methodology
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Introduction to the Iterative Approach
SEA and AA documents, will be responded to and updates made to the documents where relevant. Submissions made on the Plan will be responded to and the Plan will be updated as appropriate. When the Plan is finalised, the SEA, AA and SFRA documents will be finalised. Final documents will include an SEA Statement, which will include information on how environmental considerations were integrated into the Plan, and an AA Conclusion Statement. The Plan will be implemented and environmental monitoring – as well as planning and project development and associated environmental assessments and administrative consent of projects – will be undertaken.
Figure 3.1 provides an overview of the integrated Plan preparation, SEA, Appropriate Assessment (AA) and Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) processes. The preparation of the Plan, SEA, AA and SFRA have taken place concurrently and the findings of the SEA, AA and SFRA have informed the Plan. The process is currently at a stage where the findings of this report will be placed on public display as part of the required statutory public consultations. AA and SFRA documents will also accompany the Plan on public display. Submissions made on the Plan and associated documents, including
Outputs
Process
Preparation of the Plan began
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European SEA and Habitats Directives and transposing Regulations require SEA and AA to be undertaken, Ministerial Guidelines require SFRA to be undertaken
SEA Scoping Process (including consultations with Environmental Authorities) was carried out
SEA Scoping Report
Prediction, Evaluation and Mitigation of Environmental Impacts
The D::~,'.~~:: AA, SFRA documents were drafted in an iterative manner, whereby multiple evisions of each document are prepared, each informing subsequent iterations of others I I
The Draft Plan SEA Environmental Report AA Natura Impact Report SFRA document
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Public Consultation on the Draft Plan, SEA Environmental Report and AA and SFRA documents
.... ..I ___ Pu_b_li_c_c_o_ns_u_it_a_tio_n_Re_p_o_rt___. . . . . . . . . Final documents including SEA and AA Conclusion Statements Funding of projects that are consented through the separate, existing planning framework
Respond to Submissions and revise the Draft Plan
Finalise the assessments and prepare SEA Statement and AA Conclusion Statement to accompany the Plan
Implementation of the Plan alongside the separate, existing planning framework for administrative consent
Figure 3.1 Overview of the SEA/AA/SFRA Plan-preparation Processes
CAAS for Cork City Council
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