ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) OF SODOR PROJECT
SEA Objective
1. Ecology and Nature Conservation
Protect, enhance and manage biodiversity
assets and ecosystems
2. Soil and Land Use Protect and enhance
soil quality
3. Water Protect, enhance and manage
water resources and flood risk
4. Air Quality Reduce air pollution and
ensure continued improvements to air
quality
5. Climate Change Minimise contribution
to climate change and adapt to its
predicted effects
6. Material Assets Conserve natural
resources and reduce waste production
Sub-objective
a. Maintain and enhance internationally and
nationally designated sites
b. Maintain and enhance priority habitats
and species
c. Benefit protected species
d. Restore or enhance wider habitats and
populations of species under the public
body Duty to Conserve Biodiversity
e. Maintain and enhance the amount, variety
and quality of ecosystems
f. Protect the marine and coastal
environment
a. Safeguard and improve the highest
quality soil and agricultural land
b. Reduce soil pollution and degradation
c. Protect soil, especially coastal areas (e.g.
using managed retreat), from erosion
d. Remediate contaminated land
a. Protect water resources from over-
abstraction
b. Protect water resources from pollution
c. Improve the quality of surface water,
groundwater and the sea
d. Protect and enhance the status of aquatic
and wetland ecosystems
a. Improve air quality
b. Minimise the effects of cabon dioxide
c. Encourage use of sustainable transport
a. Encourage use of renewable energy
b. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from
transport
c. Encourage land management that protects
and captures carbon, particularly from
peatlands
d. Minimise vulnerability of the natural and
built environment and improve its
resilience to the impacts of climate
change (including support for future
proofing of new development and
adaptation to coastal erosion)
a. Safeguard natural resources (including
minerals and peatland) and minimise
unsustainable use
b. Increase recycling rates and re-use of
materials
c. Minimise production of waste
d. Improve waste management in terms of

7. Cultural Heritage Protect, enhance and
manage archaeological and cultural
heritage
8. Landscape and Seascape Protect,
enhance and manage the character and
quality of the landscape
9. Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem
Services
its financial costs and environmental and
health impacts
e. Maximise use of the existing built
environment f. Maximise opportunities
for ecological restoration of redundant
mineral sites
a. Preserve and enhance designated and
non-designated built heritage
b. Preserve and enhance designated and
non-designated aquatic sites and areas
c. Preserve and enhance the settings of
aquatic
a. Maintain and enhance the quality and
character of landscape, seascape and
coastal areas
b. Maintain and enhance designated sites
c. Provide protection for World Heritage
Sites and their settings (buffer zones)
d. Create, maintain and enhance public open
space and green infrastructure assets
a. Preserve and enhance the ability of an
area to provide ecosystem services such
as carbon sequestration
b. Encourage multifunctionality of
greenspace to provide numerous
ecosystem services simultaneously
c. Encourage biophysical changes such as
restoration of degraded land and
enhanced connectivity of habitats and
greenspace
d. Strengthen positive natural connections
and interactions between different areas
and regions
e. Improve knowledge and understanding of
and connection with the natural
environment