What is Environmental Assessment?
Environmental Assessment (EA) is the process by which your local authority will gather and consider information about the environmental effects of your development proposal. Where proposals are likely to have significant effects upon the environment, it will be necessary to provide an ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT (E.S.) to accompany the planning application. Certain forms of development [known as ‘Schedule 1 Projects’] will always require an EA, whilst a larger group of development proposals [known as ‘Schedule 2 Projects’] may require an EA in circumstances where the development is considered likely to have a ‘significant effect on the environment’. A list of Schedule 1 and 2 Projects may be reviewed at ‘EA Projects’. For straightforward domestic planning applications there is little likelihood of the need for an EA. However, each and every planning application submitted after March 1999 will be assessed against EA requirements in order to determine the need for an ES. The following criter
