Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) & Sustainability Appraisal (SA)

There is a requirement within the UK planning system for certain plans, policies and programmes that may have a significant effect on the environment to be made subject to a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). It is also a requirement for certain development plans to be subject to ``Sustainability Appraisal`` (SA), a type of Strategic Environmental Assessment that applies to certain new types of land-use plan at the local and regional levels. EPR is able to work independently or as part of a wider team of specialists on behalf of plan-makers undertaking SA/SEA, or in support of developers seeking to engage with the SA/SEA process to promote their land interests. Our in house team of experts includes both specialist ecologists and environmental assessors with experience of both leading and contributing to SA and SEA projects.