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10 Monitoring
The SEA Directive explicitly requires monitoring of the significant environmental effects of the plan. A monitoring system is being designed which will help to fulfil the following requirements:
- To provide baseline data for the next SEA and to provide a picture of how the environment / sustainability criteria of the area are evolving;
- To monitor the significant effects of the plan; and </li><li>To ensure that action can be taken to reduce / offset the significant effects of the plan.
Monitoring already plays a large role in the performance management of the W.Midlands LTP process, with the performance of a variety of indicators being tracked against targets. There is also considerable monitoring activity being carried out at local authority level, and by bodies such as the Environment Agency. Where relevant, use will be made of these existing monitoring processes for the monitoring proposed as part of this SEA.