Strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes

Strategic environmental assessment decides a plan's fate long before there is a project. We write it so the plan reaches approval with the sector reports resolved and the alternatives genuinely justified.

What's included

• Initial strategic document and request to open the process with the environmental authority.
• Strategic environmental report for planning, sector and territorial plans.
• Environmental baseline for the area and the plan's environmental objectives.
• Analysis of alternatives, including the do-nothing option, on comparable criteria.
• Assessment of effects on each environmental factor and integration measures.
• Environmental monitoring plan and document for the approval stage.

When you need it

• You are processing a general plan, a targeted amendment, or a detailed or special plan.
• The environmental authority has issued a scoping document with demanding requirements.
• A sector report has halted approval of the plan.
• You do not want the environmental work to be the last thing to reach the planning file.

How we work

We work with the planning team from day one, not once the plan is already drawn. That way the alternatives are real and the scoping document does not force the proposal to be redone.