{"id":18025,"date":"2018-02-06T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=18025"},"modified":"2018-02-05T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:49:25","slug":"rtpi-new-advice-on-strategic-environmental-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=18025","title":{"rendered":"RTPI: New advice on Strategic Environmental Assessment\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SEA_Practice_Guide2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18026\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SEA_Practice_Guide2018.png\" alt=\"SEA Practice Guide\" width=\"300\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a>The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has published new practice advice to help planners undertake Strategic Environmental Assessment \/ Sustainability Appraisal (SEA\/SA) more effectively and efficiently.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The RTPI writes:<\/p>\n<p>SEA\/SA are vital tools to improve both local and neighbourhood plans, making them more sustainable and responsive to their environmental effects.\u00a0 But they can be a daunting process given their complexity and need for robustness when challenged at inquiry and in the courts. The uncertainty around the UK\u2019s environmental legislation following Brexit also raises concerns over how to approach them.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Lewis, RTPI Policy Officer, said: \u2018The overall aim of the note is to increase the quality of analysis in these assessments by helping those undertaking them find a sharper focus in the various tasks and better ways of analysing and presenting information.\u00a0 It is important that developers, lawyers and the wider public have faith in SEA\/SA and take them seriously, and not see them as tick-box exercises. This new advice note will show that, when done properly, SEA\/SA are integral to delivering a good plan and a good development, and therefore worth investing planners\u2019 time and expertise to get right.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This note is based on existing European and UK Government guidance and applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It works through the key components and processes of SEA\/SA, highlighting good practice and case studies.<\/p>\n<p>Four tips for success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a plan\u2019s significant impacts and ways of minimising its negative effects to make the plan more sustainable and more responsive to its environmental effects;<\/li>\n<li>Use SEA\/SA to document the \u2018story\u2019 of the plan \u2013 why the plan is the way it is and not something else;<\/li>\n<li>Focus on the alternatives and mitigation stages as this is where SEA\/SA can best influence the plan;<\/li>\n<li>Focus on key issues and effects, scope out insignificant effects, and don\u2019t include unnecessary information.<\/li>\n<li>The advice was commissioned by RTPI South East.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/briefing-room\/news-releases\/2018\/january\/new-advice-on-strategic-environmental-assessment-published\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a> and access the new practice note<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has published new practice advice to help planners undertake Strategic Environmental Assessment \/ Sustainability Appraisal (SEA\/SA) more effectively and efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18027,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18025\/revisions\/18027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}