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Land allocations and SA/SEA
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The
key opportunity to screen out larger-scale sites with potentially
adverse effects / need for specific interventions
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SA / SEA approaches to heritage highly variable – but generally:
– Not strongly aligned to heritage significance
– Intersection/proximity-based approach to identifying impacts
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Particularly ineffective in dealing with setting issues
– Character generally overlooked
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Findings prompting some internal soul-searching…
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Historic England scoping / consultation responses starting to take a
stronger line and require greater detail / robustness – encouraging!