Recommended
strategic environmental assessment / sustainability appraisal and Habitats
Regulations Assessments 2011
This
year's lists are short.
The
methodology for compiling this list was:
It
is hoped that the reports will give readers ideas for carrying out good SEAs
and inspiration for further improving the
SA/SEA list
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SA/ |
SA/SEA for |
Web-link to SA/
environmental report |
Recommended by… |
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It
tackles a difficult type of masterplanning, whereby rather than committing to
a large-scale project, the masterplan is a suite of options which may or may
not be taken forward. |
Dublin
Ports Authority, Dublin Ports Masterplan |
http://www.dublinport.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/DPC%20SEA%20Draft%20ER.pdf
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Jacobs |
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Clearly
shows how the SEA has influenced the plan-making process |
Clackmannanshire
Local Development plan |
http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/site/documents/environment/localdevelopmentplanmainissuesreport/
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Máire
Daly, Scottish Natural Heritage |
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This
is a good example of a GIS-based approach to the appraisal of site
allocations. |
Lake
District National Park Authority Allocations of Land DPD |
Land
Use Consultants |
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The
Core Strategy has recently been found sound. |
Cambridgeshire
and Peterborough Minerals and Waste Core Strategy DPD |
Land
Use Consultants |
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Scopes out ‘air quality’ impacts; shows how
scores changed in response to consultation; gives an example of an adoption
statement; acts as an example of an SEA that is not simply of a plan or
programme (i.e. shows the benefits of applying to other issues). |
Lakes
to Dales landscape designation project |
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images/L2DSEAReportb_tcm6-26243.pdf
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Land
Use Consultants |
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Rare examples of national SEA / strategic HRA. These are new types of plans. The
assessment therefore tried to capture potential impacts despite no specific
spatial elements. |
Flood
and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategies for England and Wales |
link for England https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/portal/ho/flood/fcerm/strategy?pointId=1287746273433
link for Wales http://wales.gov.uk/topics/environmentcountryside/epq/waterflooding/flooding/nationalstrategy/?lang=en |
Jo
Murphy, Environment Agency |
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Structured
in a way that clearly demonstrates how all Annex 1 requirements are met,
including the requirement to explain 'the reasons for selecting the
alternatives dealt with' and the 'the way… objectives and any
environmental considerations have been taken into account during [plan]
preparation' (i.e. it 'tells the story' of how SA has influenced the
development of the Proposed Submission Plan) |
Shepway
District Council Core Strategy |
Mark
Fessey, URS |
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It
is effective at combining SEA with Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and
Equalities Impact Assessment (EqIA) into one Integrated Impact Assessment
(IIA) Report |
Newham
Borough Council Local Implementation Plan No. 2 (Transport) |
http://www.newham.gov.uk/parkingandtransport/transportplanning/localimplementationplan.htm
|
Jacobs |
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SEA statements |
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An
SEA Statement that clearly fulfils all legal requirement |
Oxford
Core Strategy |
http://www.oxford.gov.uk/Direct/CSSAandHRAAdoptionStatement.pdf
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Riki
Therivel, Levett-Therivel |
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Provides an assessment of the significant changes that have been
made to the plan between the draft and final version. |
Durham
Local Transport Plan 3 |
http://content.durham.gov.uk/PDFRepository/SEA_LTP3Statement.pdf
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Rob
Gardner, TRL |
AA/HRA list
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AA/HRA is
particularly good because… |
AA/HRA for |
Web-link to
AA/HRA report |
Recommended by… |
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The
HRA report was prepared by Hampshire County Council officers with LUC
providing critical friend advice and support as well as input to the HRA of
potential mineral sites. The approach
taken has been particularly thorough, with Hampshire County Council having
undertaken extensive consultation with Natural England on the methodology,
and having made good use of internal ecological knowledge of the large number
of Natura 2000 sites in and around Hampshire. |
Hampshire
Minerals & Waste Plan |
http://consult.hants.gov.uk/portal/pdpp/publication_of_the_draft_hampshire_minerals_and_waste_plan?tab=files |
LUC |
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· Innovative and
extensive use of GIS to assess individual and in combination effects of
multiple sites on numerous Natura 2000 sites, · The understanding
and desire of planning offices to get the most out of the process. ·
Collaborative iterative working between |
South
Lakeland Land Allocation DPD |
Orlando
Venn, Treweek
Environmental Consultants |