The effect of environmental assessment on UK local planning authority decisions

Woods, C.

The effect of environmental assessment on UK local planning authority decisions - 1997 - Urban Studies 34(8) 1997, 1237-1257(21) .

Assesses the extent to which environmental assessment has influenced local planning authority decisions. Reports on a study of forty cases, finding that EA appears to have had a gradual rather than revolutionary effect on decision-making. Considers the main benefits experienced, warning that these are not happening in all cases.


ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENTS
LOCAL PLANNING AUTHORITIES
PLANNING DECISIONS