24th July 2010, 11:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 24th July 2010, 11:46 AM by kevin wooldridge.)
I believe that EIA can also be required if the cost of a development exceeds a certain cost (or 'magnitude' as it is described in the legislation) - so maybe size in your hand isn't everything...
But here are the definitive lists (see schedules 1 and 2)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20092263_en_1
Abstraction of water can be reason for an EIA and one presumes the size of the surface impact in such a scheme could be minimal, but its wider effects (i.e on the water table etc) could be enormous....
Oh and by the way (and before the Daily Mail readers get onto this) Environmental Impact Assessments are a requirement under UK law...not as a requirement of EU regulation....
But here are the definitive lists (see schedules 1 and 2)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2009/uksi_20092263_en_1
Abstraction of water can be reason for an EIA and one presumes the size of the surface impact in such a scheme could be minimal, but its wider effects (i.e on the water table etc) could be enormous....
Oh and by the way (and before the Daily Mail readers get onto this) Environmental Impact Assessments are a requirement under UK law...not as a requirement of EU regulation....
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