Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
and Sustainability
Appraisal (SA)
EU Directive 2001/42/EC Requires Strategic Environmental
Assessment of certain plans and programmes that set a pattern of
future development where a significant environmental effect is
likely. The requirement for SA originates in the Planning and
Compulsory Purchase Act (2004).
SEAs and SAs are methods for the environmental assessment of
plans, at the strategic level in the planning system, that are
used to select the most sustainable policies and broad locations
of development.
What sort of plans and programmes may require Strategic
Environmental Assessment or Sustainability Appraisal?
- Local Plans
- Unitary Development Plans
- Structure Plans
- Regional Spatial
Strategies
- Mineral and Waste
Management Plans
- Local Development Framework Documents
- Any amendments to these plans that are likely to have
significant environmental effects
Our core skills are in environmental assessment and we offer:
- Advice on all aspects of SEA including screening and
scoping reports
- Undertaking and managing an SEA and producing an
Environmental Report
- Production of
Sustainability Appraisals of Regional Spatial Strategies
and Local Development Documents as required by the
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004) and their
review
- Production of alternative SA/SEAs of development
locations for site representation
- Review of an existing SEA to ensure quality
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