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The effect of environmental assessment on UK local planning authority decisions

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Urban Studies ; 34(8) 1997, 1237-1257(21)Publication details: 1997Subject(s): Summary: 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.

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.