The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has just released its response to the technical consultation on environmental impact assessment thresholds.
In this guide, we'll recap some of the most important points from the document and offer our advice on how this could affect your development plans.
NJL Consulting have submitted an outline application for up to 200 new homes and a new community facility in Sandbach, Cheshire on behalf of HIMOR Group.
Are you cautious about Screening for EIA due to its onerous perception? Are you leaving yourself open to Judicial Review if you fail to Screen? Well, in this blog NJL talks about proportionate EIA.
It is well known on super-major schemes Environmental Statements (the document in which the findings of an EIA are presented to decision-makers and the public) can be large documents of several volumes. The general consensus is that ES’s are long and getting longer, they can lack a focus on the key issues which tend to be obscured by the sheer volume of material and the resources required to deal with this volume are often spread thinly, especially at LPA level.
In a new video presentation for IEMA (the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment), our Senior Environmental Planner Juan Murray discusses how to avoid environmental impacts on developments through project design.
On the 6th March 2014 the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) formally launched its online Planning Policy Guidance, including updated guidance on EIA and SEA/SA. As a result a number of Government planning guidance documents were cancelled, as a result, a number of existing guidance documents relating to EIAs were cancelled.
As a reflection of the continuing high quality of the Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) managed by NJL Consulting, we have successfully secured an EIA Quality Mark for the third straight year.
Managed by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), the professional body for environmental practitioners, the EIA Quality Mark is held by just 40 of the UK's leading consultancies. It is awarded following a rigorous, independent review by IEMA of quality control process and the standard of Environmental Statements actually delivered on behalf of our clients, and is considered the ‘gold standard' for EIA.
NJL secures approval of Reserved Matters at Heald Green (1)
24th August 2021
NJL secures approval of Reserved Matters at Heald Green
27th July 2021