SEA Objectives | Sub criteria |
Protects or enhances biodiversity flora or fauna | Supports the delivery of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy |
Reduces the overall decline in the area of semi-natural habitats |
Safeguards and enhances sites that have been designated for protection as a result of their biodiversity value |
Addresses the impacts of climate change on biodiversity |
Promotes human health | Improves community health and wellbeing by promoting higher levels of physical activity |
Reduces health problems arising from environmental pollution |
Addresses established health inequalities |
Safeguards or enhances the living environments of people or communities | Reduces social exclusion, particularly by targeting action in areas where this is currently concentrated |
Contributes to key priorities for community regeneration, including by helping to target transport improvements |
Delivers affordable housing |
Secures an effective and sufficient supply of land for new housing |
Facilitates sustainable economic development |
Targets investment in areas where economic / employment need is greatest |
Provides improved electronic connectivity |
Promotes the development of a sustainable settlement pattern and physical infrastructure | Promotes settlement expansion that protects the existing character of settlements |
Ensures sufficient infrastructure is in place to accommodate future sustainable development |
Supports climate change adaptation within settlement planning |
Increases benefits of networks of greenspace and green belts |
Reduces energy consumption and / or CO 2 emissions | Promotes development in areas which are accessible by sustainable transport |
Contributes to achieving a reduction CO 2 emissions from the energy sector |
Helps to reduce CO 2 emissions from transport |
Promotes more diverse energy generation technologies |
Encourages improved energy efficiency |
Contributes to air quality / emissions reductions targets |
Reduces water pollution or enhances water quality | Achieves good ecological status of waterbodies by 2015 |
Complements the emerging role of RBMPs |
Achieves sustainable management of water demand |
Reduces diffuse pollution to water bodies |
Delivers sustainable drainage systems |
Delivers sustainable flood management solutions |
Supports the sustainable management of the marine environment |
Protects or enhances the quality of soils | Avoids adverse direct and indirect impacts of developments on soil |
Encourages efficient use of land and resources | Increases carbon sequestration |
Protects mineral resources from sterilisation |
Reduces waste going to landfill |
Helps to achieve target of 55% of waste being recycled or composted by 2020 |
Reclaims / redevelops derelict and contaminated land |
Achieves sustainable rural development |
Overcomes rural marginalisation arising from peripherality etc. |
Promotes a shift to more sustainable modes of transport |
Safeguards or enhances the built environment | Protects / enhances (where appropriate) sites that are recognised for their architectural and / or archaeological heritage value |
Recognises and reflects the heritage value of wider (non-designated) landscapes and townscapes |
Respects and protects the character, diversity and special qualities of Scotland's landscapes. | Improves the landscape setting of existing settlements |
Protects / enhances the quality, scenic value and distinctiveness of designated and non- designated landscapes |
Achieves sustainable management of change in vulnerable landscapes |