ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the legislative framework within which EIA is carried out in the UK. It begins with an outline of the principal actors involved in EIA and in the associated planning and development process. It follows with an overview first of relevant regulations and the types of project to which they apply, and then of the EIA procedures required by the recently revised Town and Country Planning (T&CP) regulations 2011.These can be considered the ‘generic’ EIA regulations that apply to most projects and provide a model for the other EIA regulations. The latter are then summarized. Readers should refer to Chapter 8 for a discussion of the main effects and limitations of the appli - cation of these regulations.