Environmental Impact in UK Law
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R James Kenyon v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
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The Defendant's written statement summarised the Defendant's assessment and conclusions, expressly referring to air quality, traffic, and cumulative impact. He concluded, in the final paragraph, that there would be an impact from an increase in traffic in the locality. He took into account, as he was entitled to do, that the Site was not in a designated area nor was it an AQMA. He concluded that the impact from the increase in traffic would not have significant environmental effects.
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R v North Yorkshire County Council, ex parte Brown and Another
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This directive was adopted to protect the environment throughout the European Union by requiring Member States to ensure that planning decisions likely to have a significant environmental effect were taken only after a proper assessment of what those effects were likely to be. It requires that before the grant of "development consent" for specified kinds of project, Member States should ensure that an environmental impact assessment is undertaken.
The position would be different if, upon a proper construction of the United Kingdom legislation, the determination of conditions was merely a subsidiary part of a single planning process in which the main decision likely to affect the environment had already been taken. In such a case, the environmental impact assessment (if any) would have been made at the earlier stage and no further assessment would be required.
The principle in this and similar cases seems to me to be clear: the Directive does not apply to decisions which involve merely the detailed regulation of activities for which the principal consent, raising the substantial environmental issues, has already been given. But the procedure was nevertheless a new and freestanding examination of the issues and could therefore, in my opinion, require the information provided by an environmental impact assessment.
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R (Jones) v Mansfield District Council
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As the judge said, the uncertainties may or may not make it impossible reasonably to conclude that there is no likelihood of significant environmental effect. It is possible in principle to have sufficient information to enable a decision reasonably to be made as to the likelihood of significant environmental effects even if certain details are not known and further surveys are to be undertaken.
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Friends of the Earth Ltd and Another v North Yorkshire County Council Third Energy Uk Gas Ltd (Interested Party)
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The application for planning permission did not include any development at Knapton. Paragraph 122 of the National Planning Policy Framework ("NPPF") advises planning authorities that they should focus on whether the development is an acceptable use of land, rather than on control of processes or emissions where these are subject to approval under pollution control regimes, and it should be assumed that those regimes will operate effectively.
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R Lebus and Others v South Cambridgeshire District Council
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It is not appropriate for a person charged with making a screening opinion to start from the premise that although there may be significant impacts, these can be reduced to insignificance as a result of the implementation of conditions of various kinds. The appropriate course in such a case is to require an environmental statement setting out the significant impacts and the measures which it is said will reduce their significance.
- The Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017
- The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017
- The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2011
- The Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2009
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Environmental Impact Assessment
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The regulatory failure of spatial planning and its environmental impact: a case study of hotel projects in Bali, Indonesia
Purpose: This paper aims to explain the impact of spatial planning regulations in the development of hotels in Bali, particularly as regards environmental damage. It then analyzes the factors that ...
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The regulatory failure of spatial planning and its environmental impact: a case study of hotel projects in Bali, Indonesia
Purpose: This paper aims to explain the impact of spatial planning regulations in the development of hotels in Bali, particularly as regards environmental damage. It then analyzes the factors that ...
- Environmental Impact Assessment - Scottish Changes
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- Scottish National Heritage Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook 5th Edition
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Offshore wind projects: Assessing the environmental impact: United Kindgdom
A global leader in offshore wind power capacity, the UK has seen rapid expansion in the sector. Government policy and strong investor interest have resulted in robust growth in the development o...