EIA and Development Workshop 18th November 2010

Environmental Impact and Assessment and Development Workshop Coleshill Manor 18^th November 2010

We held our EIA and Development workshop last Thursday in the delightful surroundings of The Gardens Coleshill manor, with sweeping views across the Warwickshire landscape to the east, and an impressive Birmingham skyline to the west.



Birmingham Skyline





Visual Impact Assessment Deeside

 Interest in the workshop was very high and the event was booked to capacity by representatives from wide ranging backgrounds, including consultants in environmental issues, surveying, planning, engineering, architecture, developers and contractors from a number of sectors – including land, renewable energy, residential, engineering.

EIA  - the basics, the essentials and the interface with design and development



Deeside - Aerial View



The workshop opened with an excellent presentation by Barry Moore Director of Moore Environment, starting with the basics of the EIA process, moving through to more detailed issues of impacts and effects and assigning significance.

 The presentation then moved on to the interface of EIA with design and development and included aspects such as screening and scoping of the EIA, consultation with stakeholders and the LPA, the essentials of programming for EIA to minimise costly delays to project delivery. Finally Barry reminded us that, at the end of EIA was a product, the design, and how sensitive design can both protect and enhance the environment.

The EIA Team

The morning session ended with an introduction to the EIA team, a network of independent companies brought together under the Moore Environment umbrella to deliver EIA. Representatives from each of the companies were introduced.

After an excellent buffet lunch the afternoon session began with a review of case studies from Moore Environments’ portfolio. Studies from a range of industry sectors were selected to demonstrate different scopes of EIA – from a Screening Opinion for a small housing development, where the LPA agreed an EIA was not required to a large infrastructure project requiring a full EIA and ES.

 

Questions and Answers

The workshop ended with the Question and Answers session with the EIA team as the panel. This produced some very detailed and in depth queries and led to some lively discussion. A full report of the Questions and Answers will be made available on this site shortly, along with the presentation, which contains some useful detail for those involved with EIA.

Further EIA Events Proposed

The response to the EIA Workshop has been such that we are considering running similar events after the New Year – if you would like to express an interest in attending please email us at:- mail@moore-environment.co.uk