Applicants for certain types of development, usually more significant schemes, are required to submit an “environmental statement” accompanying a planning application. This evaluates the likely environmental impacts of the development, together with an assessment of how the severity of the impacts could be reduced.Projects needing environmental impact assessment are listed in Schedule 5 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001. In the case of development which is under the relevant EIA threshold, planning authorities are required under article 103 of the 2001 Regulations to request an EIS where it considers that the proposed development is likely to have significant environmental effects.
