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
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