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Table 9 Extract from Statement of Common Ground agreed between EAOW and Natural England, July 2013
ID 4.2 4.4 Topic Data Collection and Description of the Baseline Environment
The Environmental Statement adequately characterises the baseline relevant to onshore ecology Impact Assessment Methodology
The impact methodology as set out in each assessment chapter provides an appropriate approach to assessing potential impacts of the proposed East Anglia ONE project on onshore ecology (other than ornithology)
Environmental Impact Assessment and Mitigation 4.5 4.6
Assuming agreed mitigation is implemented, the proposed development is not considered to have a detrimental effect on non-designated countryside.
Assuming agreed mitigation is implemented, the proposed development is not considered likely to damage the ecological and geological features of interest of relevant SSSIs or other protected sites, eg County Wildlife Sites. The parties are agreed that adequate mitigation can be secured for bats at the converter through the implementation of the proposals agreed through the Landscape and Ecological Management Strategy.
4.7
Assuming agreed mitigation is implemented, the proposed development is not considered to have a detrimental effect on onshore European Protected Species.
The parties are agreed that adequate mitigation can be secured for bats at the converter through the implementation of the proposals agreed through the Landscape and Ecological Management Strategy. Where mitigation requires the granting of a Natural England licence, the measures proposed are considered to be in line with Natural England guidance
4.5 Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) and European Protected Species (EPS)
65. Given that there are no direct overlaps with statutory designated sites and assuming that the mitigation already agreed for East Anglia ONE will be adhered to for East Anglia THREE and East Anglia FOUR, it is considered that there will be no pathways for Likely Significant Effect (LSE) in the HRA context or adverse effects on EPS.
66. 67.
EAOW therefore propose that LSE for all onshore habitats and species will be screened out within the HRA Screening Report.
It is expected that the conclusions with regard to HRA and EPS will be agreed in ETG meeting 1.
Evidence Plan
East Anglia THREE & East Anglia FOUR Offshore Windfarms