Strategic Environmental Assessment - STAG
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As part of the preparation of the Orkney Islands Inter-Isles Connectivity Strategy (Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance [ STAG] Study), Orkney Islands Council has carried out a Strategic Environmental Assessment [ SEA] of the Strategy. SEA is a systematic method for considering the likely environmental effects of certain plans, programmes or strategies and is required by the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005.
The purpose of SEA is to integrate environmental consideration into the Strategy, and this is achieved in two ways:
- SEA allows the potential environmental impacts of the Strategy to be predicted and, where appropriate, these predictions can be used to inform the development of the policies in the Strategy.
- In setting out the predicted environmental impacts in an Environmental Report, so that the public and other stakeholders can give their view on the Strategy and its potential impacts.
The Environmental Report presents the findings of the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Orkney Islands Inter-Isles Connectivity Strategy (STAG Study).
The SEA of the Orkney Islands Inter-Isles Connectivity Strategy (STAG Study) and its appendices are available in Portable Document Format [ PDF] from the Download related documents section of this web page.