9th January 2007, 02:19 PM
UnitofOne
I work as a consultant within a multi-discplinary firm that is involved in lots of EIAs and we have been looking at the imnplications of the Crytal Palace judgements - essentially there are two linked cases here that were finalised last year - Barker/Crystal Palace and White City/Crystal Palace.
As far as our planner and EIA team are concerned, the judgements are as follows:
EIA should be undertaken at the stage of âprincipal decisionâ (outline) not âimplementing decisionâ (reserved matters).
However, where outline consent is granted without EIA, there is the risk of a need for EIA, for whole project, at reserved matters stage.
Where outline consent is granted with EIA, a second EIA may be required at reserved matters if a significantly different scheme is proposed or there are significantly new baseline conditions.
Changes to Regulations and Circulars are required. In the meantime the EIA Directive takes precedence as it has a âdirect effectâ on UK law.
Beamo
I work as a consultant within a multi-discplinary firm that is involved in lots of EIAs and we have been looking at the imnplications of the Crytal Palace judgements - essentially there are two linked cases here that were finalised last year - Barker/Crystal Palace and White City/Crystal Palace.
As far as our planner and EIA team are concerned, the judgements are as follows:
EIA should be undertaken at the stage of âprincipal decisionâ (outline) not âimplementing decisionâ (reserved matters).
However, where outline consent is granted without EIA, there is the risk of a need for EIA, for whole project, at reserved matters stage.
Where outline consent is granted with EIA, a second EIA may be required at reserved matters if a significantly different scheme is proposed or there are significantly new baseline conditions.
Changes to Regulations and Circulars are required. In the meantime the EIA Directive takes precedence as it has a âdirect effectâ on UK law.
Beamo