Environmental Assessment and Planning
We have project experience in the following areas:
Strategic Environmental Assessment
Environmental Impact assessment
IQ Tools
Costs and Benefits
Spatial Planning
General Permitted Development
Territorial Impact Assessments
Examples of our experience in environmental assessment and planning projects are provided below.
European and International Experience of Strategic Environmental Assessment: Recent Progress and Future Prospects, 2016, SEA Handbook, Routledge.
Implementation of the Natura 2000, Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC and Birds Directive 79/409/EEC, Preparation for an ex-post Territorial Impact Assessment, 2016, for the European Committee of the Regions.
Support for the Impact Assessment of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive, 2011, for DG Environment, European Commission.
Integration of the Network Function of Natura 2000 into the Assessment of Plans and Programmes, 2010, for DG Environment, European Commission.
Relationship Between SEA and Land Use Planning, 2009, for the Flemish Authorities.
Positive Planning for Onshore Wind, 2009, A project for the Royal Society for Protection of Birds.
Towards a More Efficient and Effective Use of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal in Spatial Planning, 2008, for the Department for Communities and Local Government (UK Government).
Guidance for Environmental Impact Assessment for CO2 Capture and Storage Projects, 2007, for the Environment Agency (England and Wales)
Improving Assessment of the Environment in Impact Assessments, 2007, for DG Environment, European Commission.
Costs and Benefits of Environmental Impact Assessment, and the Impact of the EIA Directive in Member States, 2007, for DG Environment, European Commission.
Evaluating Integrated Impact Assessments (EVIA), to Provide a Review of Approaches to Integrated Impact Assessments Across Europe and More Specifically its Actual Effects, Quality, Standards and Institutional Practices, 2008, DG Research, European Commission.
IQ-Tools- Evaluating/Developing Integrated Assessment Tools, 2006, for DG Environment, European Commission.
SEA for Bromley Council Local Implementation Plan, which Details the Actions for Delivering the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy, 2005, for Bromley Council.
Applying Integrated Environmental Assessment to Waste Policy, 2004, for EFIEA and DEFRA (UK Government).
MEANS Handbook on Evaluation, 2003, for DG Regio, European Commission.
Environmental Impact Assessment and its Implementation in the EU, 2003, for the European Parliament’s Environment Committee.
Implementing Environmental Impact Assessment, 2001, for the Spanish Government.
Transposition of the EIA Directive in Sweden, 2001, for DG Environment, European Commission.
The Transposition in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar of EC Directive 85/337 on the Assessment of the Effects of Certain Public and Private Projects on the Environment, 2001, for DG Environment, European Commission.
The Impact of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 and the Town and Country Planning General Permitted Development) Order 1995 on the Delivery of Integrated Transport and other Planning Policy Objectives, 2000, for the Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions, UK Government.
Implementation of the SEA Proposal in the UK, 1998, for the Countryside Commission.
PENELOPE, Comparative Tool on Environmental Impact Assessment systems in Member States, 1997, for DG Environment, European Commission.