Environmental Impact

We will coordinate Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) work, providing a dedicated, client-centred service.

This includes:

  • Management of the consultation process;
  • Production of screening and scoping reports;
  • Environmental surveys;
  • Monitoring and production of baseline assessments;
  • Environmental modelling and assessment of impacts;
  • Environmental Reports (ER) & Environmental Statements (ES); and
  • Provision of expert witnesses.

The EIA Process
The SEA Process
Working With Existing Teams Or Complete Project Management

The EIA Process

An EIA usually forms part of the planning process. It involves the production of an Environmental Statement to support the planning application for a proposed development.

An EIA is mandatory for all proposed Schedule 1 planning projects and discretionary for proposed Schedule 2 projects.

To assist the process, developers can request from the relevant planning authority a ‘screening opinion’ (to see if their development proposal requires an EIA) and then a ‘scoping opinion’ (to determine the range of topics needed to be covered by the EIA).

The main topics of an EIA include: air quality/climatic factors; noise/vibration; transport; water; soil/contamination; archaeology/built heritage; landscape/visual; ecology and the interaction of these topics.

The potential environmental impacts caused by the proposed development need to consider all those effects that are: positive and negative; direct and indirect; short- and long-term; permanent and temporary; primary and secondary; and cumulative.

The SEA Process

The SEA Directive applies to a wide range of plans and programmes, including town and country planning and land use. The SEA process involves: assessing baseline data; predicting the significant environmental impacts of the plan/programme; identifying strategic alternatives; and monitoring the actual environmental effects of a plan/programme during its implementation. The SEA process results in the production of an Environmental Report (ER).

Consultation is an important part of both the EIA and SEA processes.

Human Rights legislation has recently provided considerable weight to both the EIA and SEA processes.

Working with existing teams or whole project management

We will work with existing teams to produce specialist sections of Environmental Reports (ER) or Environmental Statements (ES). We can also offer complete coordination of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) or Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) processes. This can involve the management of the whole project from consultations, screening, scoping to production of the ES/ER and, if required, the provision of expert witnesses.

environmental impact data sheet



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