Services for this project included the project management of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the planning application and co-ordination of accompanying technical component studies. The technical studies that we undertook included the Ecological Phase I Habitat Survey.
Utilising our understanding the environmental issues associated with similar city centre commercial developments we produced the EIA scoping report to focus on those issues that would result in significant environmental impacts, therefore ensuring an efficient and cost effective EIA process.
Key issues in this context were: Historic, landscape, townscape & visual; Archaeology; Microclimate; Aviation & lighting; Air Quality; Noise & Vibration; Telecommunications; Soils, geology and contamination; Socio-economics; and Sustainable waste management.