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• 02 Dec
  

  COP21 – Implications for UK construction

  The 21^st Climate Change Conference is currently being held from 30^th November to 11^th December 2015 in Paris. The Conference is called COP 21, and is short for The 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

  The framework was originally adopted at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and led to the 1995 Kyoto Protocol, which legally binds developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  The Conference seeks to produce a new framework, which will replace the Kyoto agreement when it runs out in 2020. The 195 convention signatories (which also includes developing countries) will vote on the text of a new agreement aimed at keeping global warming below an agreed temperature rise.

  By: Juan Murray environmental impact assessment,  COP21,  Climate change No comments Read More
• 14 Jan
  

  Environmental Impact Assessment – Consultation On Assessment Thresholds

  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.

  By: Juan Murray EIA,  Environmental Impact Assessment,  Planning,  Development No comments Read More
• 24 Sep
  

  Environmental Impact Assessment Thresholds

  Our Senior Environmental Planner Juan Murray has written a guest article for IEMA on Environmental Impact Assessment Thresholds and their effects on planning applications.

  "Does an EIA add significant costs and time to a planning application? Yes, of course it can, but the consultation on thresholds is not necessarily on removing schemes from being EIA development, but moving the threshold, which is the fundamental issue here."

  By: Justine Entezari environmental impact assessment No comments Read More
• 12 Aug
  

  New Submission: Hindheath - HIMOR Group

  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.

  By: Paul Smith Application,  Housing,  Housing Development,  Cheshire,  Residential Development,  Planning,  EIA,  environmental impact assessment,  News No comments Read More
• 30 Jul
  

  Environmental Impact Assessment – onerous or proportionate?

  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.

  By: Juan Murray EIA,  environmental impact assessment No comments Read More
• 27 Jun

  Environmental Impact Assessment: Avoiding Impacts through Project Design

  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.

  By: Juan Murray Planning,  EIA,  IEMA,  Environmental Impact Assessment No comments Read More