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Environmental impact assessment screening checklist

To help ensure that an authority giving development consent for a project makes its decision knowing the likely effects on the environment.

Applies to England

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Environmental impact assessment screening checklist

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Environmental impact assessment screening checklist

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Environmental impact assessment (EIA) helps to ensure that an authority giving development consent for a project makes its decision in the full knowledge of any likely significant environmental effects on the environment. The EIA checklist is used by the planning casework unit and the planning inspectorate when screening for EIA. Local authorities may also find that the checklist provides a useful foundation for screening for EIA, but there is no obligation for it to be used.

Published 3 August 2011
Last updated 8 November 2021 + show all updates
  1. Minor formatting / presentational changes to the columns in the main tables.

  2. Updated version of the EIA Screening matrix that implements the requirements of the new Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017

  3. First published.