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Sources of Information on Environmental Impact Assessment

Guidance

Publication title: Circular 02/99: Environmental impact assessment
 
Publication title: Environmental Impact Assessment: A guide to procedures

This guide is specifically aimed at developers, and their agents and consultants, but is also a useful introduction to EIA for students and members of the public. Appendix 8 of the guide lists, and on the website link below has hyperlinks to the, Regulations that transpose the requirements of Council Directive 85/337/EEC as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC.

Publication title: Mitigation Measures in Environmental Statements
Published: July 1997
ISBN: 1851120505
Price: £12

This is a report carried out on behalf of the then DOE and provides guidance on good practice.

This is a priced publication available from Communities and Local Government Publications, PO Box 236, Wetherby LS23 7NB. Tel: 0300 123 1124, fax: 0300 123 1125, email: product@communities.gsi.gov.uk. Please quote the ISBN when ordering. Payment can be made by credit or debit card, or by cheque or postal order made out to the Department for Communities and Local Government (an invoice can be requested, if required). Delivery will be 5-7 days from receipt of payment.

The Department has also issued a Note on Environmental Impact Assessment Directive for Local Planning Authorities. This is a guidance note to all local planning authorities in England and is an aide-memoire of the potential pitfalls involving EIA and how to avoid them.

Good Practice Guides

Publication title: Preparation of Environmental Statements for Planning Projects that Require Environmental Assessment
Published: 1 December 1995
ISBN: 9780117532076
Price: £15

This is a guide for agents, consultants and developers about how to produce an environmental statement.

Publication title: Evaluation of Environmental Information for Planning Projects: A Good Practice Guide
Published: 23 November 1994
ISBN: 9780117530430
Price: £8

This guidance provides local planning authorities with help on how to assess an environmental statement.

These good practice guides are priced publications available from TSO (The Stationery Office), PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN. Order through the Parliamentary Hotline (Lo-call): 08457 023 474, fax: 0870 600 5533, textphone 0870 240 3701, email: book.orders@tso.co.uk or visit www.tsoshop.co.uk  (external link) to buy online.

Other Publications

Publication title: Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (2nd Edition)
Published: December 1995
ISBN: 1857289455
Price: £26.99

Published by UCL Press Ltd.
 
Publication title: Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook: A Practical Guide for Planners, Developers and Communities
Published: 10 April 2002
ISBN: 9780727727817
Price: £40

This is a priced publication available from the Thomas Telford Bookshop at the Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA. Order through tel: 0207 665 2019, fax: 0207 665 2245, email: bookshop@ice.org.uk or visit http://www.thomastelford.com/books (external link) to buy online. Please quote the ISBN when ordering. You can also buy in person from the Bookshop.

Publication title: Scoping Guidelines for the Environmental Impact Assessment of Projects
Price: £95

Published by the Environment Agency. Information on the Guidelines and how to order them are on the Agency's website here (external link).

Useful Websites

The Planning Inspectorate (external link). 

The Planning Portal (external link). 

EU guidance (revised 2001) on screening, scoping and review, and cumulation can be accessed from the European Commission (external link). 

Summaries on UK EIA Court cases are available from the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (external link). You will need to have some details about the case you are seeking details on to aid your search.  

UK legislation are available from OPSI (external link), for example the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (external link) and the amending Regulations (external link).

The Scottish Government has issued a planning advice note (PAN) on EIA, which is available here (external link). 

Application of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary context (referred to as the Espoo Convention) is available from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (external link).

Related publications

• Circular 02/99: Environmental impact assessment

  • Published: 12 March 1999
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment

• Environmental Impact Assessment: A guide to procedures

  • Published: 12 January 2000
  • Site: Planning, building and the environment

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