Work undertaken to date and presented in this EUR represents an early stage in the EIA process and reflects EWR Co’s commitment to avoiding, reducing and mitigating potential environmental impacts.
The EIA is addressing a number of environment topics. In this EUR these have been grouped as follows:
- People and communities, which includes:
- Agriculture
- Air quality.
- Communities.
- Health and wellbeing.
- Land quality (including contamination).
- Socio-economics.
- Sound, noise and vibration.
- Traffic and transport (addressing journeys and access).
- Visual amenity (excluding landscape which is addressed under landscape and historic environment).
2. The natural environment, which includes:
- Ecology and biodiversity (including arboriculture).
- Flooding.
- Water resources.
3. Landscape and the historic environment, which includes:
- Historic environment (including built heritage and archaeology).
- Landscape (excluding visual amenity which is addressed under people and communities).
By grouping these topics together, EWR Co seeks to provide consultees with an overview of the potential impacts of the proposals, as well as potential
In addition, consideration of carbon, material and waste, strategic socio-economic issues and strategic transport issues are addressed from a route-wide perspective, as are certain topics for which the combination of local impacts can also be viewed from a route-wide perspective.
Other assessments
In addition to the EIA, the project will be subject to a number of other regulatory regimes, including the Habitats Regulations and the Water Framework Directive. Further information on these assessments will be provided at the statutory consultation and the DCO application will be accompanied by the relevant details of these assessments.
