Introduction Some EIA practitioners can fall into a familiar cycle of describing baseline conditions, assessing adverse impacts, evaluating significance, identifying mitigation measures and then presenting the residual impacts of a scheme after mitigation. To a degree this ‘cycle’ may be encouraged by the common mitigation hierarchy now fully embedded in EIA practice and recognised in…

Introduction A hybrid planning application is one that seeks outline permission for one part and full permission for another part of the same site.  Although their acceptance is entirely at the discretion of the local planning authority, they can be popular with developers who are seeking to secure a planning permission that both establishes the…