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[1man1desk]

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quote:Now this is one of the many things that I don’t understand about EIAs, as said before (forget where probably got edited) –what is an eia? Could it be a procedure which requires an authoritative aceptance as in a "consents" or one combined eia with the development consent or are there two different consents and which “consent” first (if two are required).

That's an easy question for once.

An EIA is a process whose principal purpose is to provide information about the potential environmental effects of certain categories of proposed development. The authority responsible for giving or refusing consent for the development is required to take that information into account in making its decision. The information is presented in the form of an Environmental Statement. In most cases, the EIA/ES is carried out as part of the preparation of an application for planning permission.

Therefore, the authority never consents to the EIA or the ES - they consent (or refuse consent) to the development, having taken the environmental information into account.

Of course, the environmental information is not the only thing they have to take into account, and the weight they place on the environmental information may vary from case to case and from authority to authority.

1man1desk

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