Environmental Impact Assessment – Joint Technical Consultation (planning changes to regulations on forestry, agriculture, water resources, land drainage and marine works)
Overview
The EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (‘the EIA Directive’) is applied across the European Union (EU) to development projects with likely significant effects on the environment (by virtue of their nature, size or location). The Directive requires such projects to be subject to an assessment of those effects before development consent can be given.
In 2014 Directive 2014/52/EU amended the EIA Directive (2011/92/EU) to: reduce the burden on developers, by aiming for: fewer projects being subject to assessment; and reductions in the size and cost of environmental statements; and where assessments are required. The focus should now be on those environmental factors that are significantly affected and not any potential impact. The UK Government now needs to make amendments to domestic regulations to implement these changes by 16 May 2017.
This is a joint consultation by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in England, the Welsh and Scottish Governments and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland. This consultation concerns amendments to domestic legislation on Environmental Impact Assessment for forestry, agriculture, water resources, land drainage, fin-fish farming in marine waters and marine works.
Why your views matter
We are seeking views on amendments to domestic EIA legislation. Our consultation focuses on those areas where we have discretion over how domestic legislation will be changed. The consultation document also includes information about the other changes (where we have no discretion). In these cases, we will simply copy out new requirements them from the EU Directive. As we have no discretion on how we implement those changes, we have not asked for views.
In addition, we welcome evidence about the extra costs to business from these changes, and whether the changes could be made in a way that would involve a lower cost to business while ensuring equal environmental protection.
Audiences
- Water/water Industry sector
- Aggregates sector
- Agricultural Landlords
- Agricultural Valuers
- All Marine Users
- Business/Private Sector
- Charities/Voluntary Organisations
- Coastal local authorities
- Coastal Management sector
- Coastal Members of Parliament
- Commercial Fisheries Organisations
- Consultants
- Devolved Administrations
- Energy sector
- Energy suppliers
- Environmental campaigners
- Environmental professional services
- Farmers
- Fisheries Producer Organisations
- Fishermen
- Government Agencies
- Government Departments
- Horticulture Industry
- House Building Industry
- Industries and professional services
- Land Agents
- Legal and Conveyancing Professions
- Local Authorities
- Local Authorities
- National Park Authorities
- Policy Teams
- Ports and Harbour Authorities and Estuaries
- Professional and Membership Organisations/Agencies
- Public Bodies
- Recreation sector
- Tenant Farmers
- Trade Unions
- Walkers
- Water Abstractors
- Water suppliers
Interests
- Aarhus Convention
- Access to countryside and coast
- Animals
- Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Common Fisheries Policy
- Common land
- Conservation
- Conservation
- Construction
- Consultations
- Deforestation
- DEFRA Policy
- Ecosystems services
- Environmental Stewardship
- Fish stocks
- Flood insurance
- Flooding
- Forestry
- Forestry
- Green economy
- Green infrastructure
- Growing and crops
- House Building and Planning
- Impact Assessments
- Industry organisations representing tenant farmers and landlords
- Inland waterways
- Inland waterways
- Land management
- Local environments
- Local nature partnerships
- Marine
- Marine Conservation
- Marine Conservation Zones
- Marine fisheries
- Marine licensing
- National Adaptation Programme
- National Parks
- Natural environment
- Nature reserves
- Nitrates and watercourses
- Plants
- Policy and Delivery
- Pollution Sector
- Recreational sector
- Resource Efficiency
- Rural economy and communities
- Rural Properties
- Shellfish
- Solicitors specialising in agricultural law
- Sustainable development
- Towns and village greens
- Tree and plant health
- Water Abstraction
- Water Act
- Water Bill
- Water conservation
- Water Industry charging
- Water Industry licencing
- Watercourse maintenance
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