Strategic Environmental Assessments and Sustainability Appraisal

Strategic Environmental Assessments and Sustainability Appraisal

9.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and introduction

9.40 SEA requirements: the SEA Directive and Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004

11.00 Coffee

11.20 SA requirements: the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
• Links between SA and SEA

12.00 The scoping stages 1:
• Links to other policies, plans and programmes
• Environmental/sustainability baseline

12.30 Lunch

1.15 The scoping stages 2:
• Environmental problems and sustainability issues
• The SA/SEA framework

1.45 Workshop: policy assessment

2.30 Tea/coffee

2.45 The assessment stages
• What alternatives to assess
• What parts of the draft plan to assess
• Impact prediction, evaluation and mitigation
• Monitoring

3.10 Concluding SA issues
• Who should carry out assessment
• Resource implications

3.20 (Optional) Habitats Regulations Assessment

4.00 Close