Expert Witness - Environmental Planning

Our environmental planning and expert witness work includes:

• Expert witness
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• screening the need for Environmental Assessments
  and scoping the content
• production of Environmental Statements in support
  of planning applications
• the project management of Environmental Assessments
• the assessment of site baseline conditions
• introducing measures to influence the design process and
  mitigate development impacts
• the review of Environmental Statements

Other Environmental Planning:

• initial appraisals of environmental constraints to potential development sites, eg comparative analysis of competing Local Plan allocation sites
• opportunities for the enhancement of the environment and benefits to local communities in support of development projects
• advising on other specialists required and engaging their expertise
• using environmental expertise to negotiate Section 106 agreements
• advising on the validity and implementation of environmental planning conditions attached to planning consents
• brownfield re-development and other urban regeneration initiatives
• a focus on rural planning matters which complements the mainstream planning skills of the Bell Cornwell Partnership
• specialist in community woodlands and forests as a physical framework for environmental benefits
• specialise in soils and related environmental sciences