Environmental statements, environmental information, environmental assessment and the UK planning process

Project Appraisal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 233-241

  Weston, Joe ^a   Glasson, John ^a   Therivel, Riki ^b   Wilson, Elizabeth ^a   Frost, Richard ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Planning   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decisionmaking; Environmental impact assessment; Project appraisal

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT; PLANNING PRACTICE;

UK;

EID: 0031397557     PISSN: 02688867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688867.1997.9727065     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. The terminology within environmental impact assessment can be quite confusing. Internationally the process of assessment tends to be known as environmental impact assessment (EIA). In the UK it has, since its formal introduction in 1988, been officially known as environmental assessment (EA). In effect both terms mean the same process. Similarly, internationally, the document submitted to decision-makers as part of the EIA process is known as the environmental impact statement (EIS), whereas in the UK it is known simply as the environment statement (ES
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7. Staff from the School of Planning at Oxford Brookes University have delivered in-house training sessions on planning to councillors in over 20 Local Authorities in England and Wales during. 1997. 1996 and
8. Now the Department of the Environment. Transport and the Regions (DoETR
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19. The IAU review package is a development of the systematic review packaged devised by N Lee and R Colley, “Reviewing the quality of environmental statements”, Occasional Paper no 24, 1990 EIA Centre, University of Manchester
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22. 45 See reference 3
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27. 34 See reference 3
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29. Joe Weston was for six years 1987–1994 the head of a LPA development control team responsible, amongst other duties, for writing committee reports for major development proposals
30. 22 See reference 28
31. 36 See reference 3
32. 22 See reference 3
33. 30 See reference 13
34. Section. 106 planning obligations under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 are basically legal agreements between a LPA and a developer and are used to secure some form of mitigation against the impacts of a project
35. 21 See reference 28
36. 25 See reference 13
37. DoE. 1995. Preparation of Environmental Statements for Planning Projects that require Environmental Assessment:A Good Practice Guide 14London:HMSO.
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