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provision is clearly not meeting need and the social needs must outweigh the negative impact on ER09. 14.63 No SA discussion. Policy SP04: Provision and Retention of Infrastructure and Service 14.64 SP04 does not have any alternatives. Overall in terms of SEA (Appendix 4) SP04 is deemed to have an uncertain effect on the environmental receptors. 14.65 No SA Discussion. Policy SP05: Design 14.66 With regard to SEA receptor ER09 (Appendix 4), the overall conclusion for the policy is a neutral effect. The policy has a neutral effect on impact pathway HEA1 (impacts on heritage assets due to land take). The Planning (listed buildings and conservation areas) as the design policy is focused on the quality of development, rather than its location, and so effects on the impact pathway due to land take are not considered relevant to this policy. 14.67 SP05 has a neutral effect on impact pathway HEA2 (impacts on heritage assets due to inappropriate development). National regulations would prevent inappropriate development occurring near heritage assets. SP05 also supports this by permitting proposals that respect the historic environment, including preserving or enhancing the special interest of national heritage assets and their settings. 14.68 SP05 has a neutral effect on impact pathway HEA3 (impacts on heritage assets due to decreased air quality and related climate change) because minimising energy consumption may prevent decreases in air quality, but the policy does not go as far as to say reducing energy consumption will have a positive effect on the impacts of climate change, and therefore the effect on this impact pathway is considered to be neutral. 14.69 Policy SP05 has a neutral effect on impact pathway HEA4 (impacts on heritage assets due to disturbance), as the policy is focused on the quality of development, rather than the impacts of development (including through disturbance). This would apply to impacts on heritage due to disturbance, and therefore the policy is considered largely irrelevant to this impact pathway, and a neutral effect is recorded. 14.70 No SA Discussion. Policy SP06: Tourism, Recreation and Leisure 14.71 Having regard to SEA receptor ER09, the overall conclusion for SP06 is a neutral effect. The policy has a beneficial effect on impact pathway HEA1 (impacts on heritage assets due to land take). The Planning (listed buildings and conservation areas) Regulations 1990 regulate development in relation to listed buildings and conservations areas, which are heritage assets. Any application for listed building consent or conservation area consent will be assessed for its impacts on character and setting. Policy SP06 encourages projects that broaden the appreciation of heritage assets, and therefore reduces impacts of heritage assets due to land take. Policy SP06 also has a beneficial effect and promotes new tourism on previously developed land, so any impacts due to land take would be minimal. 14.72 SP06 has a beneficial effect on impact pathway HEA2 (impacts on heritage assets due to inappropriate development). This is again because national regulations prevent this occurring and the policy encourages the appreciation of heritage assets. SP06‐A1 also has a beneficial effect, as the policy promotes the improvement of the quality of existing visitor attractions including heritage visitor attractions. 14.73 SP06 has an adverse effect on HEA3 (impacts on heritage assets due to decreased air quality and related climate change) because the increase in visitor numbers arriving by car will add particulates to the air that will impact on the quality of listed buildings through rain deposition or extreme’s in weather associated with climate change. SP06‐A1 also has an adverse effect on HEA3, although it encourages new tourism to be accessible by public transport, existing facilities are not necessarily and vehicles would therefore contribute to decreases in air quality, impacting adversely on heritage assets. Page | 188 Runnymede BC FINAL Sustainability Appraisal Report – Feb 2013
14.74 SP06 has an adverse effect on impact pathway HEA4 (impacts on heritage assets due to disturbance), as the boost in tourist numbers visiting heritage assets (including the River Thames and other water bodies) if not managed properly could adversely impact on these assets due to disturbance. SP06‐A1 also has an adverse effect on the impact pathway for the same reason as the preferred policy. 14.75 No SA discussion. Policy SP07: Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area 14.76 There are considered to be no reasonable alternative to the policy, as it provides a tested mechanism to facilitate development. However, the impact on the receptor is neutral with regard to the SEA (Appendix 4) 14.77 No SA Discussion. Policy SP08: Employment Development 14.78 With regard to the SEA (Appendix 4) both policy SP08 and SP08‐A1 have an uncertain impact. 14.79 Having regard to the conclusion of SA in Appendix 3, overall, all the policy approaches have a neutral/positive impact. However, there is an adverse affect form the SP08‐A1 on RSF 3 (reducing poverty) , RSF 6 (creating vibrant communities), RSF 9 and 11 (stimulating the economy), and RSF 12 (developing a dynamic economy), RSF 13 (maintaining a skilled workforce), RSF 21 (improving transport), SP08‐A1 is less acceptable in the SA analysis. The need to accommodate growth will have a consequence for all the receptors, but the impact of the alternatives is different in a negative way and so SP08 is clearly more acceptable. 14.80 SP08 overall in the SA consideration does not have an overall different impact to the alternative but it is more positive. Policy SP09: Sustainable Transport 14.81 With regard to SEA receptor ER09, the overall conclusion for the policy is an adverse effect (Appendix 4). The policy has an adverse effect on impact pathway HEA1 (impacts on heritage assets due to land take), as the provision of new roads may negatively impact on existing heritage assets. 14.82 SP09 has an adverse effect on impact pathway HEA2 (impacts on heritage assets due to inappropriate development), as the routes of new roads/existing roads could be near to heritage assets, and would therefore cause disturbance. 14.83 Policy SP09 has an adverse effect on impact pathway HEA3 (impacts on heritage assets due to decreased air quality and related climate change), because the amount and location of new infrastructure provision is not stated in this policy, and although SP09 requires more use of sustainable modes of transport, the existing amount of particulates in the air has already caused damage to heritage assets, such as listed buildings. However, new infrastructure may minimise energy consumption and prevent increases in poor air quality, and the policy makes provision for new development (where it is appropriate to do so) be located near to sustainable forms of transport. 14.84 SP09 has a neutral effect on impact pathway HEA4 (impacts on heritage assets due to disturbance), as the roads that already exist in locations near to heritage assets and will be used regardless of the amount of public transport put in place. 14.85 Overall policy SP09 has a mixed effect on SA objectives (Appendix 3). With regard to RSF objectives, the policy has a neutral, beneficial or significantly beneficial effect in SA terms, with the exception of RSF8 (to encourage increase engagement in cultural activity across all sections of the community in Runnymede, and promote sustainable tourism), where the policy has an uncertain effect on the objective. This effect is seen because promoting sustainable tourism is difficult when the tourism policy does not require recreation and leisure facilities to be accessible by public transport. In addition, the transport policy although has sustainable principles, makes no specific requirement for tourism facilities to be accessible by public transport, therefore its effects would be unknown. Page | 189 Runnymede BC FINAL Sustainability Appraisal Report – Feb 2013
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CONTENTS List of Tables ...........
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SECTION 8. [ER04] WATER RESOURCES A
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Local Plan Policy Context Conclusio
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Table 59 - ER04 - Water Resource an
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Commenting on this SAR Report Pleas
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Glossary of terms TERM Baseline Dat
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Section 1. Section 1 Introduction t
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Section 16 Conclusions 1.17 This se
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Section 2. Legal and Statutory Requ
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effects on the environment of certa
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Box 1 ‐ Elements of an Environmen
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Table 2 - Assessment Chapter Compon
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Date Key stage in SA/SEA Effect on
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Section 3. Introduction Framework a
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3.16 Monitoring reports will be aug
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Figure 4 - Compatibility between SA
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Table 6 - Meeting the requirements
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Environmental Receptor ER03 Land an
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the SEA. Each policy and its altern
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Table 10 - Additive and interactive
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3.43 In terms of environment, asses
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Section 4. Assessment of RBC’s Lo
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LP Objective Strategic Policy Objec
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No. Policy LP04 Development in Egha
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Location Policy 2 (LP02) - Housing
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4.41 The approach in Policy LP04 ac
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4.56 Policy LP08 seeks to provide
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4.73 To summarise, Policy SP03 prom
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4.90 However, the policy appears to
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Policy and Alternatives Considered
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Section 5. Introduction [ER01] Natu
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Protecting and enhancing valued lan
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Sites of International Importance a
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SSSI Area (ha) Reason for designati
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Evolution of Baseline in Absence of
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scenario) will have a similar impac
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5.63 LP07 overall in the SA conside
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Policy SP08 - Employment Developmen
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Cumulative Effects Assessment 5.100
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Section 6. Introduction [ER02] Welf
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European Nitrates Directive (1991)
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Figure 8 ‐ Projected Population i
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for community gain. Across the rang
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alternative to leave the site in th
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the policy requires all development
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6.96 With regard to WHWB5 (opportun
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Section 7. Introduction [ER03] Land
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County 7.12 Surrey Waste Plan (2008
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Evolution of Baseline condition in
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through the appropriate re‐use of
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Policy SP07: Thames Basin Heaths Sp
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Table 52 - Suggested Monitoring of
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Section 8. Introduction [ER04] Wate
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Local 8.11 Strategic Flood Risk Ass
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Figure 11 - Source Protection Zone
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8.32 An increase in population with
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the final development schemes. Ther
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encourages proposals that enhance t
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Cumulative Effects Assessment 8.87
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Section 9. Introduction [ER05] Air
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to 23 μg/m 3 in 2011 55 . It is as
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9.45 LP02 overall in the SA conside
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9.67 The overall conclusion of the
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Policy SP08: Employment Development
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and from ER06 Climate change. Syner
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