Purpose

In summary it is to ensure the Examining
Authority fully understands how the Norwich to Tilbury NSIP could
affect the area, its communities, and its environment. TDCs LIR
seeks to ensure that local issues, evidence, and policy
considerations are formally and comprehensively considered by the
ExA during the examination.

Content

To publish this Council's comprehensive Local
Impact Report (LIR) for the Norwich to Tilbury Nationally
Significant Infrastructure Project. The decision to publish the LIR
has been made to ensure transparency, provide clarity for
stakeholders, and set out the full extent of the project’s
anticipated impacts on the District.
TDC’s LIR covers a broad range of issues, including—but
not limited to—the following:
•Assessment of likely impacts of the proposed development on
the district, including environmental, social, and economic
effects.
•Local knowledge and expertise, drawing on TDC’s
understanding of the area, its communities, and its unique
characteristics.
•Evidence of local concerns and issues, including agricultural
impacts, landscape and visual effects, flood risk considerations,
local socio economic implications, and the effect of the scheme on
local travel patterns and access to community
facilities/businesses/settlements (to name but a few).
•Appraisal of the development’s compliance with relevant
local planning policies, strategies, and guidance.
•In consultation with ECC, detailed consideration of the draft
DCO, including articles, requirements, and obligations, together
with any changes or mitigation measures TDC considers
necessary.
The publication of the LIR ensures that these locally specific
matters are clearly communicated to the Examining Authority in a
transparent manner and are fully taken into account in the
examination of the project.

Alternative options considered

The decision to submit and publish a LIR has
no direct impacts on Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).